Applied Behavior Analysis Exam 1
(Chapters 1-3) Question & Answers
2025
Chapter 1 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔
Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔What people do and say
Target Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The behavior that is
being studied/modified
Consists of behavioral excess & deficits
Behavioral Excess - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔An undesirable target
behavior that a person seeks to decrease in frequency, duration, or
intensity
Behavioral Deficit - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A desirable target
behavior that a person seeks to increase in frequency, duration, or
intensity.
Response - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔One instance of a behavior
(fundamental unit)
What does it mean that behavior analysis is a natural science of human
behavior? What makes it "natural"? - CORRECT ANSWERS
,Applied Behavior Analysis Exam 1
(Chapters 1-3) Question & Answers
2025
✔✔Behaviors cannot be determined scientifically by some
metaphysical or immeasurable force, it must be caused by some
measurable physical and natural source;
Behavior obeys rules and LAWS of natural origin
4 dimensions of Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Frequency- # of
times the behavior occurs
Duration- total amount of time occupied by the behavior from start to
finish
Intensity- the amount of force, energy, or exertion involved in it
Latency- the time from some stimulus or event to the onset of the
behavior
What does it mean to say behavior is lawful? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔The occurrence of behavior is systematically influenced by
environmental events.
Overt behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔An action that can be
observed and recorded by a person other than the one engaging in the
behavior.
, Applied Behavior Analysis Exam 1
(Chapters 1-3) Question & Answers
2025
Example: banging one's head on the table
Behavior Analysis & the book focus on OVERT behavior
Covert behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Behavior that can be
subjectively perceived only by the person performing the behavior;
"private events".
Example: Thinking or reading
What causes human behavior? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Human
behavior is caused by our individual traits combined with the situation
we find ourselves in; event from the immediate enviornment
How can a label be mistakenly identified as a cause of behavior? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A label does not cause a behavior, it
merely describes the pattern of behaviors.
Example: A person might say that a child with autism engages in
problems behaviors (screaming, hitting, etc.) because they are autistic.
SUGGESTING that autism causes the behavior. Autism is a LABEL that
describes the pattern of behaviors the child engages in.
(Chapters 1-3) Question & Answers
2025
Chapter 1 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔
Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔What people do and say
Target Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The behavior that is
being studied/modified
Consists of behavioral excess & deficits
Behavioral Excess - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔An undesirable target
behavior that a person seeks to decrease in frequency, duration, or
intensity
Behavioral Deficit - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A desirable target
behavior that a person seeks to increase in frequency, duration, or
intensity.
Response - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔One instance of a behavior
(fundamental unit)
What does it mean that behavior analysis is a natural science of human
behavior? What makes it "natural"? - CORRECT ANSWERS
,Applied Behavior Analysis Exam 1
(Chapters 1-3) Question & Answers
2025
✔✔Behaviors cannot be determined scientifically by some
metaphysical or immeasurable force, it must be caused by some
measurable physical and natural source;
Behavior obeys rules and LAWS of natural origin
4 dimensions of Behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Frequency- # of
times the behavior occurs
Duration- total amount of time occupied by the behavior from start to
finish
Intensity- the amount of force, energy, or exertion involved in it
Latency- the time from some stimulus or event to the onset of the
behavior
What does it mean to say behavior is lawful? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔The occurrence of behavior is systematically influenced by
environmental events.
Overt behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔An action that can be
observed and recorded by a person other than the one engaging in the
behavior.
, Applied Behavior Analysis Exam 1
(Chapters 1-3) Question & Answers
2025
Example: banging one's head on the table
Behavior Analysis & the book focus on OVERT behavior
Covert behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Behavior that can be
subjectively perceived only by the person performing the behavior;
"private events".
Example: Thinking or reading
What causes human behavior? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Human
behavior is caused by our individual traits combined with the situation
we find ourselves in; event from the immediate enviornment
How can a label be mistakenly identified as a cause of behavior? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A label does not cause a behavior, it
merely describes the pattern of behaviors.
Example: A person might say that a child with autism engages in
problems behaviors (screaming, hitting, etc.) because they are autistic.
SUGGESTING that autism causes the behavior. Autism is a LABEL that
describes the pattern of behaviors the child engages in.
