ABA final exam study guide Questions with Answers (100%
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In explaining behavior, a useful theory must be:
a. inclusive and justifiable
b. inclusive, verifiable, and justifiable
c. verifiable, exclusive, and predictable
d. inclusive, verifiable, have predictive validity, and be parsimonious —Answer: d. inclusive,
verifiable, have predictive validity, and be parsimonious
Information concerning a child's brain damage:
a. can be useful in the teacher's selection of behavior management techniques
b. helps teachers determine who should be in school and who should not
c. can cause teachers to have low expectations of students and give them excuses
not to teach
d. none of the above —Answer: ...
A genuine scientific explanation must:
a. be inclusive of all behaviors
b. predict one behavior to the exclusion of all other behaviors
c. a and b
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,d. none of the above —Answer: ...
A relationship among events in which the rate of a behavior's occurrence increases when some
environmental condition is removed is:
a. differential reinforcement
b. reinforcement
c. positive reinforcement
d. negative reinforcement —Answer: d. negative reinforcement
To the behaviorist, punishment occurs only when:
a. the preceding behavior decreases
b. the preceding behavior increases
c. both a and b
d. neither a or b —Answer: a. the preceding behavior decreases
The focus of the behavioral approach is:
a. observing and predicting
b. facilitating behavior change
c. recording and verifying aberrant behaviors
d. all of the above —Answer: d. all of the above
Which is NOT a contributor to the behavioral viewpoint?
a. functionalism
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,b. naturalism
c. animal psychology
d. positivism —Answer: ...
Pairing stimuli so that an unconditioned stimulus elicits a response is known as all of
the following EXCEPT:
a. Pavlovian
b. classical
c. respondent conditioning
d. shaping —Answer: ...
"Jack can't learn because he has Down syndrome" is an example of what explanation of
behavior?
a. biophysical explanation
b. developmental explanation
c. cognitive explanation
d. behavioral explanation —Answer: ...
An antecedent stimulus is:
a. an event occurring before the behavior is performed
b. an event occurring after the behavior is performed
c. a and b
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, d. none of the above —Answer: a. an event occurring before the behavior is performed
To qualify as a behavior, something must be:
a. observable
b. quantifiable
c. a and b
d. none of the above —Answer: c. a and b
Behaviorists are LEAST concerned with the following:
a. functional relation
b. observable behaviors
c. present events
d. past events —Answer: d. past events
For an explanation of behavior to be "verifiable" it must
a. account for a substantial quantity of behavior
b. provide reliable answers about what people are likely to do under certain circumstances
c. provide the simplest explanation
d. be testable —Answer: ...
For an explanation of behavior to be "verifiable" it must
a. account for a substantial quantity of behavior
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In explaining behavior, a useful theory must be:
a. inclusive and justifiable
b. inclusive, verifiable, and justifiable
c. verifiable, exclusive, and predictable
d. inclusive, verifiable, have predictive validity, and be parsimonious —Answer: d. inclusive,
verifiable, have predictive validity, and be parsimonious
Information concerning a child's brain damage:
a. can be useful in the teacher's selection of behavior management techniques
b. helps teachers determine who should be in school and who should not
c. can cause teachers to have low expectations of students and give them excuses
not to teach
d. none of the above —Answer: ...
A genuine scientific explanation must:
a. be inclusive of all behaviors
b. predict one behavior to the exclusion of all other behaviors
c. a and b
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,d. none of the above —Answer: ...
A relationship among events in which the rate of a behavior's occurrence increases when some
environmental condition is removed is:
a. differential reinforcement
b. reinforcement
c. positive reinforcement
d. negative reinforcement —Answer: d. negative reinforcement
To the behaviorist, punishment occurs only when:
a. the preceding behavior decreases
b. the preceding behavior increases
c. both a and b
d. neither a or b —Answer: a. the preceding behavior decreases
The focus of the behavioral approach is:
a. observing and predicting
b. facilitating behavior change
c. recording and verifying aberrant behaviors
d. all of the above —Answer: d. all of the above
Which is NOT a contributor to the behavioral viewpoint?
a. functionalism
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,b. naturalism
c. animal psychology
d. positivism —Answer: ...
Pairing stimuli so that an unconditioned stimulus elicits a response is known as all of
the following EXCEPT:
a. Pavlovian
b. classical
c. respondent conditioning
d. shaping —Answer: ...
"Jack can't learn because he has Down syndrome" is an example of what explanation of
behavior?
a. biophysical explanation
b. developmental explanation
c. cognitive explanation
d. behavioral explanation —Answer: ...
An antecedent stimulus is:
a. an event occurring before the behavior is performed
b. an event occurring after the behavior is performed
c. a and b
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, d. none of the above —Answer: a. an event occurring before the behavior is performed
To qualify as a behavior, something must be:
a. observable
b. quantifiable
c. a and b
d. none of the above —Answer: c. a and b
Behaviorists are LEAST concerned with the following:
a. functional relation
b. observable behaviors
c. present events
d. past events —Answer: d. past events
For an explanation of behavior to be "verifiable" it must
a. account for a substantial quantity of behavior
b. provide reliable answers about what people are likely to do under certain circumstances
c. provide the simplest explanation
d. be testable —Answer: ...
For an explanation of behavior to be "verifiable" it must
a. account for a substantial quantity of behavior
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