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BCAT EXAM STUDY SHEET (QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) | LATEST EDITION 1. Deficits in Social Emotional Reciprocity - ANSWER Range from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back and forth conversations; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect: to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions. 2. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction - ANSWER Manifested by absent, reduced, or atypical use of eye contact (relative to cultural norms), gestures, facial expressions, body orientation, or speech intonation. 3. Deficits in developing maintaining and understanding relationships - ANSWER Ranging from difficulties adjusting behavior to suit various social context; to difficulties in sharing imaginative play or in making friends; to absence of interest in peers 4. conditioned reinforcer - ANSWER A stimulus that initially has no reinforcing properties but through occurring simultaneously with an unconditioned or strongly conditioned reinforcer, acquires reinforcing properties. 5. Mary had never demonstrated that bubbles were reinforcing to her. Mary is presented bubbles every time she gives a correct response in conjunction with a piece of an apple. Mary begins to choose bubbles during a preference assessment. Bubbles became a conditioned reinforcer. - ANSWER conditioned reinforcer 6. unconditioned reinforcer - ANSWER A stimulus, such as food, water, shelter or clothing that is reinforcing in the absence of any prior learning history. 7. Marius will complete any task that he is told to do if he knows food is available to him after he has completed the task. Food is an unconditioned reinforcer - ANSWER unconditioned reinforcer 8. extinction - ANSWER a procedure by which a behavior that was previously reinforced no longer receives reinforcement and the probability of the behavior decreases. 9. Megan bangs her head to get her mothers attention. When Megan bangs her head, her mother comes running over to her to try to stop her. Megan's mother stops coming to her when she bangs her head. The planned ignoring of Megan banging her head is called extinction - ANSWER extinction 10. deprivation - ANSWER The absence or reduction of a reinforcer for a period of time. The depravation is an establishing operation that increases the effectiveness of the reinforcer. 11. Tomi has not had a eaten since 7:00am. It is 10:00am now, the therapist offers Tomi food during a preference assessment. Tomi chooses food. He gets 100% correct on his Community Helper's lesson with receiving a bite of food after each correct response. - ANSWER deprivation 12. satiation - ANSWER : Repeated presentation of a reinforcer weakens its effectiveness and for this reason the rate of responses declines 13. Elijah has just eaten lunch. The therapist brings him into session and plans on using pieces of carrots as a reinforcer. Carrots are Elijah's favorite food. Elijah refuses the carrots and begins to not respond during his ABA session. He just ate lunch and is satiated on food. - ANSWER satiation 14. contingency - ANSWER Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables 15. If Kora follows 10 directions, receiving tokens for each direction, she will receive a break from work. The break from work is CONTINGENT upon her following 10 directions. - ANSWER contingency 16. motivating operation - ANSWER An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event. 17. : Calin has been receiving potato chips as a reinforcer. Calin stops eating the chips. She has not had anything to drink in quite some time. The therapist switches to juice as a reinforcer. Calin became satiated on the chips and has been deprived of a drink, therefore eating the chips had altered the effectiveness of the juice. - ANSWER motivating operation 18. antecedent - ANSWER environmental events that occur before a behavior 19. Jim threw his tablet at his mom when she answered the phone. The mother answering the phone was the antecedent to him throwing the tablet. Adam pushes the button "play music" on his ACD when the therapist shows him his MP3 player. The visual of the MP3 player is the Antecedent of Adam requesting the therapist to play music. - ANSWER antecedent 20. behavior - ANSWER anything an organism does 21. If a person itches their eye. If a person hits another person. If a person breathes. If a person exchanges an icon. If a person is sleeping. If a person says "purple." - ANSWER behavior 22. consequence - ANSWER Environmental events that occur after a behavior. 23. A therapist tells Kendra to say shoe. Kendra says "shoe," the therapist says "YAHOO." Yahoo is a consequence to the Kendra saying "shoe." Jeff drops a rock into a bucket of water, the water splashes out of the bucket. The splash is the consequence of the rock being dropped into the water. Vinnie pinches his teacher, the teacher ignores the pinch. The teacher ignoring the pinch is a consequence to the pinching behavior. - ANSWER consequence 24. 3-term contingency - ANSWER Also referred to as the ABC's of behavior (antecedent-behavior-consequence). It illustrates how behavior is elicited by the environment and how the consequences of behavior can affect its future occurrence. 25. Positive Reinforcement - ANSWER A type of reinforcement in which the PRESENTATION of the stimulus is contingent upon the response, resulting in an INCREASE in the future probability of that response. 26. Example: Sally took off her shoe independently yesterday, her mother clapped her hands and said "Way to go Sally!" Sally took her shoes off today independently again. The clapping and "way to go" were the positive reinforcer for taking her shoes off independently. - ANSWER positive

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BCAT EXAM STUDY SHEET (QUESTIONS WITH
100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) | LATEST EDITION

1. Deficits in Social Emotional Reciprocity - ANSWER Range from abnormal
social approach and failure of normal back and forth conversations; to
reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect: to failure to initiate or
respond to social interactions.


2. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction -
ANSWER Manifested by absent, reduced, or atypical use of eye contact
(relative to cultural norms), gestures, facial expressions, body orientation, or
speech intonation.


3. Deficits in developing maintaining and understanding relationships -
ANSWER Ranging from difficulties adjusting behavior to suit various social
context; to difficulties in sharing imaginative play or in making friends; to
absence of interest in peers


4. conditioned reinforcer - ANSWER A stimulus that initially has no
reinforcing properties but through occurring simultaneously with an
unconditioned or strongly conditioned reinforcer, acquires reinforcing
properties.


5. Mary had never demonstrated that bubbles were reinforcing to her. Mary is
presented bubbles every time she gives a correct response in conjunction
with a piece of an apple. Mary begins to choose bubbles during a preference
assessment. Bubbles became a conditioned reinforcer. - ANSWER
conditioned reinforcer

,6. unconditioned reinforcer - ANSWER A stimulus, such as food, water,
shelter or clothing that is reinforcing in the absence of any prior learning
history.


7. Marius will complete any task that he is told to do if he knows food is
available to him after he has completed the task. Food is an unconditioned
reinforcer - ANSWER unconditioned reinforcer


8. extinction - ANSWER a procedure by which a behavior that was previously
reinforced no longer receives reinforcement and the probability of the
behavior decreases.


9. Megan bangs her head to get her mothers attention. When Megan bangs her
head, her mother comes running over to her to try to stop her. Megan's
mother stops coming to her when she bangs her head. The planned ignoring
of Megan banging her head is called extinction - ANSWER extinction


10.deprivation - ANSWER The absence or reduction of a reinforcer for a
period of time. The depravation is an establishing operation that increases
the effectiveness of the reinforcer.


11.Tomi has not had a eaten since 7:00am. It is 10:00am now, the therapist
offers Tomi food during a preference assessment. Tomi chooses food. He
gets 100% correct on his Community Helper's lesson with receiving a bite of
food after each correct response. - ANSWER deprivation


12.satiation - ANSWER : Repeated presentation of a reinforcer weakens its
effectiveness and for this reason the rate of responses declines

,13.Elijah has just eaten lunch. The therapist brings him into session and plans
on using pieces of carrots as a reinforcer. Carrots are Elijah's favorite food.
Elijah refuses the carrots and begins to not respond during his ABA session.
He just ate lunch and is satiated on food. - ANSWER satiation


14.contingency - ANSWER Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations
between operant behavior and its controlling variables


15.If Kora follows 10 directions, receiving tokens for each direction, she will
receive a break from work. The break from work is CONTINGENT upon
her following 10 directions. - ANSWER contingency


16.motivating operation - ANSWER An environmental variable that alters the
reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event.


17.: Calin has been receiving potato chips as a reinforcer. Calin stops eating the
chips. She has not had anything to drink in quite some time. The therapist
switches to juice as a reinforcer. Calin became satiated on the chips and has
been deprived of a drink, therefore eating the chips had altered the
effectiveness of the juice. - ANSWER motivating operation


18.antecedent - ANSWER environmental events that occur before a behavior


19.Jim threw his tablet at his mom when she answered the phone. The mother
answering the phone was the antecedent to him throwing the tablet.
Adam pushes the button "play music" on his ACD when the therapist shows
him his MP3 player. The visual of the MP3 player is the Antecedent of Adam
requesting the therapist to play music. - ANSWER antecedent


20.behavior - ANSWER anything an organism does

, 21.If a person itches their eye. If a person hits another person. If a person
breathes. If a person exchanges an icon. If a person is sleeping. If a person
says "purple." - ANSWER behavior


22.consequence - ANSWER Environmental events that occur after a behavior.


23.A therapist tells Kendra to say shoe. Kendra says "shoe," the therapist says
"YAHOO." Yahoo is a consequence to the Kendra saying "shoe." Jeff drops
a rock into a bucket of water, the water splashes out of the bucket. The
splash is the consequence of the rock being dropped into the water. Vinnie
pinches his teacher, the teacher ignores the pinch. The teacher ignoring the
pinch is a consequence to the pinching behavior. - ANSWER consequence


24.3-term contingency - ANSWER Also referred to as the ABC's of behavior
(antecedent-behavior-consequence). It illustrates how behavior is elicited by
the environment and how the consequences of behavior can affect its future
occurrence.


25.Positive Reinforcement - ANSWER A type of reinforcement in which the
PRESENTATION of the stimulus is contingent upon the response, resulting
in an INCREASE in the future probability of that response.


26.Example: Sally took off her shoe independently yesterday, her mother
clapped her hands and said "Way to go Sally!" Sally took her shoes off
today independently again. The clapping and "way to go" were the positive
reinforcer for taking her shoes off independently. - ANSWER positive
reinforcement

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