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CBCC-KA Exam Questions and Answers
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Define: Fixed Interval Schedule - Answer✔Provide a reinforcer the first time the target
behaviour occurs after an interval of N length since the last reinforcement
Define: FI - Answer✔Fixed Interval Schedule
What is the difference between FR5 and VR5? - Answer✔With FR5, you reinforce every fifth
event, while with VR5 you reinforce an average of every 5th event
What happens on an FI-2 minute schedule? - Answer✔The behaviour is reinofrced only when it
occurs after 2 minutes have elapsed after the last reinforcement
Define: VI
Define: Variable Interval Schedule - Answer✔Variable Interval Schedule
Provide a reinofrcer the first time the target behaviour occurs after an interval, with the interval
varying around an average of N lengthVariable-interval schedule with a limited hold schedule
requires only one resonsebut that response must occur at an unpredictable period of time. A
sports-relatedexample of this would be "hot-ball" in soccer, which has a nearly 0-second hold
Thisdrill involves six players to stand in a circle and one touch the ball to another playerin the
circle. The coach will randomly blow the whistle to say the drill is over, whenthe whistle is
blown, whichever player has the ball in their possession must do oneman-maker. This is a
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response that makes the players practice their one-touch passessince they do not want to be
stuck with the ball when the whistle is blown they willdish the ball off as soon as they can.
Define: FD
Define: Fixed Duration Schedule - Answer✔Fixed Duration Schedule
Provide a reinforcer after the target behaviour has been performed continuously for a period of
N length
Define: VD
Define: Variable Duration Schedule - Answer✔Variable duration schedule
Provide a reinforcer after the target behaviour has been performed continuously for a period,
with the period varying around an average of N length
What are the drawbacks to flooding? - Answer✔The therapy is necessarily anxiety producing
and the there is little room for error
Define: Flooding - Answer✔Exposure to stimuli until no response occurs
What are you doing when you construct a hierarchy? - Answer✔You are identifying situations
that arouse fear and arrange them in order from the least upsetting to the most upsetting
Who first devised systematic desensitization? - Answer✔Joseph Wolpe
Define: Desensitization Training - Answer✔Any form of counter conditioning training that
reduces an inappropriate negative response to an event
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Define: Conditioned Response - Answer✔The response to the conditioned stimulus following
learning
Define: Counterconditioning - Answer✔The use of Pavlovian conditioning to undo the adverse
effects of earlier conditioning
Define: Unconditioned Response - Answer✔Any response that does not require learning
Define: Conditioned Stimulus - Answer✔Any stimulus that when paired with an unconditioned
response produces that response after learning
Define: Unconditioned Stimulus - Answer✔A stimulus that elicits a response but that does not
need to be learned
Define: Sensitization Training - Answer✔Any form of counterconditioning that reduces an
inappropriate positive response to an event
occurs when repeated exposure or a single exposure to a stimulus inc. the intensity of response
ex: if you are walking down the hall right after watching a scary movie & your friend pops out
and says Boo! you will likely startle --> sensitizes other stimuli than the one being exposed to
Define: Aversion Therapy - Answer✔The application of an aversive stimulus when paired with a
stimulus that evokes an inappropriate positive response
What are the rules for counterconditioning? - Answer✔1. Define the target behaviour2. Identify
the stimuli to be paired3. Pair the appropriate stimuli4. Monitor results
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CBCC-KA Exam Questions and Answers
100% Pass
Define: Fixed Interval Schedule - Answer✔Provide a reinforcer the first time the target
behaviour occurs after an interval of N length since the last reinforcement
Define: FI - Answer✔Fixed Interval Schedule
What is the difference between FR5 and VR5? - Answer✔With FR5, you reinforce every fifth
event, while with VR5 you reinforce an average of every 5th event
What happens on an FI-2 minute schedule? - Answer✔The behaviour is reinofrced only when it
occurs after 2 minutes have elapsed after the last reinforcement
Define: VI
Define: Variable Interval Schedule - Answer✔Variable Interval Schedule
Provide a reinofrcer the first time the target behaviour occurs after an interval, with the interval
varying around an average of N lengthVariable-interval schedule with a limited hold schedule
requires only one resonsebut that response must occur at an unpredictable period of time. A
sports-relatedexample of this would be "hot-ball" in soccer, which has a nearly 0-second hold
Thisdrill involves six players to stand in a circle and one touch the ball to another playerin the
circle. The coach will randomly blow the whistle to say the drill is over, whenthe whistle is
blown, whichever player has the ball in their possession must do oneman-maker. This is a
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response that makes the players practice their one-touch passessince they do not want to be
stuck with the ball when the whistle is blown they willdish the ball off as soon as they can.
Define: FD
Define: Fixed Duration Schedule - Answer✔Fixed Duration Schedule
Provide a reinforcer after the target behaviour has been performed continuously for a period of
N length
Define: VD
Define: Variable Duration Schedule - Answer✔Variable duration schedule
Provide a reinforcer after the target behaviour has been performed continuously for a period,
with the period varying around an average of N length
What are the drawbacks to flooding? - Answer✔The therapy is necessarily anxiety producing
and the there is little room for error
Define: Flooding - Answer✔Exposure to stimuli until no response occurs
What are you doing when you construct a hierarchy? - Answer✔You are identifying situations
that arouse fear and arrange them in order from the least upsetting to the most upsetting
Who first devised systematic desensitization? - Answer✔Joseph Wolpe
Define: Desensitization Training - Answer✔Any form of counter conditioning training that
reduces an inappropriate negative response to an event
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Define: Conditioned Response - Answer✔The response to the conditioned stimulus following
learning
Define: Counterconditioning - Answer✔The use of Pavlovian conditioning to undo the adverse
effects of earlier conditioning
Define: Unconditioned Response - Answer✔Any response that does not require learning
Define: Conditioned Stimulus - Answer✔Any stimulus that when paired with an unconditioned
response produces that response after learning
Define: Unconditioned Stimulus - Answer✔A stimulus that elicits a response but that does not
need to be learned
Define: Sensitization Training - Answer✔Any form of counterconditioning that reduces an
inappropriate positive response to an event
occurs when repeated exposure or a single exposure to a stimulus inc. the intensity of response
ex: if you are walking down the hall right after watching a scary movie & your friend pops out
and says Boo! you will likely startle --> sensitizes other stimuli than the one being exposed to
Define: Aversion Therapy - Answer✔The application of an aversive stimulus when paired with a
stimulus that evokes an inappropriate positive response
What are the rules for counterconditioning? - Answer✔1. Define the target behaviour2. Identify
the stimuli to be paired3. Pair the appropriate stimuli4. Monitor results
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