CBMT Exam Prep Questions and Answers 2023

CBMT Exam Prep Questions and Answers 2023 Behavior Therapy (applied behavior analysis, behavior modification) Therapeutic intervention designed to change behavior using techniques of operant and respondent conditioning as well as behavior analysis. Cue stimulus, prompt): An event that sets the occasion or a certain event to occur. Discriminative Stimulus A cue which results in a response when that response occurs only after its presentation, and not after other cues. Fading The gradual removal of explicit prompts or cues in an attempt to maintain the behavior on its own. Generalization The transfer of effects to other behaviors, stimuli, conditions or settings. Group contingencies Consequences for a group as a whole dependent upon the occurrences of specified behavior in the entire group. Insight Therapy An approach to psychotherapy whose objective is awareness of causes or motivations for behavior which, then, leads to control over the behavior and improvement of one's condition. Melodic IntonationTherapy Clinical uses of melodies that emphasize intonation in normal speech to develop language skills in aphasic patients and others needing remediation in propositional language. Negative Punishment The removal of stimulus, resulting in a decrease in behavior, e.g. stopping the music after the occurrence of inappropriate behavior which rests in a decrease of inappropriate behavior. Orff-Schulwerk An approach to music education by Carl Orff that emphasizes creative experience, natural abilities and sounds, the pentatonic scale and obstinate. Paired-associate Presentation of one word as the stimulus for the recall of a second word. Positive Reinforcement The presentation of a stimulus, resulting in an increase in the behavior it follows, e.g., practicing piano increases when the purchase of a new piano is made contingent upon greater practice time.