CBCC-KA Study Group 2024 Exam
Questions with All Correct
Answers
What is the definition of a 'functional relation'? (Chance p5) - Answer- The tendency of
one event to vary in a regular way with one or more other events.
What is 'Behavior'? (Chance - p6) - Answer- It is anything a person does that can be
observed.
What is 'Overt Behavior'? (Chance - p7) - Answer- Behavior that can be observed by
someone other than the person performing it.
What is 'Covert Behavior'?(Chance - p7) - Answer- Behavior that can be observed only
by the person performing it.
What is 'Respondent Behavior'? (Chance - p8) - Answer- It is behavior that is most
readily influenced by events that precede it; it is reflexive behavior.
What is 'Operant Behavior'? (Chance - p10) - Answer- It is behavior that is readily
influenced by events that follow it.
What is a "Behavioral Repertoire'? - Answer- it is all the things an individual is capable
of doing at any given moment.
What is an 'Environmental Event'? (Chance - p14) - Answer- It is any event in a
person's environment that can be observed.
What are 'antecedents'? (Chance - p15) - Answer- They are environmental events that
occur BEFORE a behavior.
What are 'consequences' (or postcedents)? (Chance - p15) - Answer- They are
environmental events that occur AFTER a behavior.
What is a 'temporal relation'? (Chance - p15) - Answer- It is the relationship, in time, of
an environmental event(s) to behavior.
What is 'Learning History'? (Chance - p17) - Answer- It is all the environmental events
(antecedents & consequences) that have affected a person's behavior up to the
present.
, What is 'Applied Behavior Analysis'? (Chance - p17) - Answer- Is the attempt to solve
behavior problems by providing antecedents and/or consequences that change
behavior.
What is the 'Medical Model'? (Chance - p22) - Answer- It is the view that behavior
problems are merely symptoms of an underlying psychological disorder.
What is 'Symptom Substitution'? (Chance - p23) - Answer- It is the idea that if a
behavior problem is solved without resolving the underlying psychological disorder,
another behavior problem will take its place.
What is 'Daniel's Dictum'? (Chance - p24) - Answer- It pertains to the following - "If you
think this stuff is easy, you're doing it wrong."
What is Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect? - Answer- The persistence with which
some animals will continue to respond, despite never being reinforced. This is usually
due to Partial Reinforcement Schedules prior to the Extinction began.
Who wrote "Excel-erated Learning"? - Answer- Pamela J. Reid
What are the 4 stages of Learning? - Answer- 1 - Acquisition (acquiring)
2 - Fluency (automatic)
3 - Generalization (application)
4 - Maintenance (always)
What is 'Learning Theory'? - Answer- It is an explanation of how learning works; how
learning comes to occur.
What is the "Principle of Parsimony"? - Answer- Also known as Occum's Razor, it
mandates choosing the simplest explanation for a behavior that accounts for the facts,
even if more complicated options are available.
What is "latent learning"? - Answer- It is when an animal learns something even though
it has no motivation or stimulus associating a reward with learning it.
What is "Morgan's Canon"? - Answer- Morgan's Canon, also known as Lloyd Morgan's
Canon, Morgan's Canon of Interpretation or the principle or law of parsimony, is a
fundamental precept of comparative (animal) psychology, coined by 19th-century British
psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.
What does "Morgan's Canon" state? - Answer- Morgan's Canon states that higher
psychological processes should not be used to explain behavior that can be explained
using lower processes. What he meant was that behavior should be explained by the
Questions with All Correct
Answers
What is the definition of a 'functional relation'? (Chance p5) - Answer- The tendency of
one event to vary in a regular way with one or more other events.
What is 'Behavior'? (Chance - p6) - Answer- It is anything a person does that can be
observed.
What is 'Overt Behavior'? (Chance - p7) - Answer- Behavior that can be observed by
someone other than the person performing it.
What is 'Covert Behavior'?(Chance - p7) - Answer- Behavior that can be observed only
by the person performing it.
What is 'Respondent Behavior'? (Chance - p8) - Answer- It is behavior that is most
readily influenced by events that precede it; it is reflexive behavior.
What is 'Operant Behavior'? (Chance - p10) - Answer- It is behavior that is readily
influenced by events that follow it.
What is a "Behavioral Repertoire'? - Answer- it is all the things an individual is capable
of doing at any given moment.
What is an 'Environmental Event'? (Chance - p14) - Answer- It is any event in a
person's environment that can be observed.
What are 'antecedents'? (Chance - p15) - Answer- They are environmental events that
occur BEFORE a behavior.
What are 'consequences' (or postcedents)? (Chance - p15) - Answer- They are
environmental events that occur AFTER a behavior.
What is a 'temporal relation'? (Chance - p15) - Answer- It is the relationship, in time, of
an environmental event(s) to behavior.
What is 'Learning History'? (Chance - p17) - Answer- It is all the environmental events
(antecedents & consequences) that have affected a person's behavior up to the
present.
, What is 'Applied Behavior Analysis'? (Chance - p17) - Answer- Is the attempt to solve
behavior problems by providing antecedents and/or consequences that change
behavior.
What is the 'Medical Model'? (Chance - p22) - Answer- It is the view that behavior
problems are merely symptoms of an underlying psychological disorder.
What is 'Symptom Substitution'? (Chance - p23) - Answer- It is the idea that if a
behavior problem is solved without resolving the underlying psychological disorder,
another behavior problem will take its place.
What is 'Daniel's Dictum'? (Chance - p24) - Answer- It pertains to the following - "If you
think this stuff is easy, you're doing it wrong."
What is Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect? - Answer- The persistence with which
some animals will continue to respond, despite never being reinforced. This is usually
due to Partial Reinforcement Schedules prior to the Extinction began.
Who wrote "Excel-erated Learning"? - Answer- Pamela J. Reid
What are the 4 stages of Learning? - Answer- 1 - Acquisition (acquiring)
2 - Fluency (automatic)
3 - Generalization (application)
4 - Maintenance (always)
What is 'Learning Theory'? - Answer- It is an explanation of how learning works; how
learning comes to occur.
What is the "Principle of Parsimony"? - Answer- Also known as Occum's Razor, it
mandates choosing the simplest explanation for a behavior that accounts for the facts,
even if more complicated options are available.
What is "latent learning"? - Answer- It is when an animal learns something even though
it has no motivation or stimulus associating a reward with learning it.
What is "Morgan's Canon"? - Answer- Morgan's Canon, also known as Lloyd Morgan's
Canon, Morgan's Canon of Interpretation or the principle or law of parsimony, is a
fundamental precept of comparative (animal) psychology, coined by 19th-century British
psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.
What does "Morgan's Canon" state? - Answer- Morgan's Canon states that higher
psychological processes should not be used to explain behavior that can be explained
using lower processes. What he meant was that behavior should be explained by the
