BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION EXAMPREP REVIEW SHEET WITH TESTED QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION EXAMPREP
REVIEW SHEET WITH TESTED QUESTIONS
AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

●● Covert behaviors:
Answer: (also called private events) are not observable.


Ex. Thinking (can only be observed only by the person engaging in the
behavior)


●● The field of behavior modification focuses primarily on overt or
_________ behaviors
Answer: observable


●● Most often, behavior modification procedure are used to understand
and change _________ behaviors.
Answer: overt


●● True or False?


Behaviors may be overt or covert.
Answer: True

, ●● Functional Relationships:
Answer: Define behavior, look at antecedents and consequences;
specifically reinforcements


●● Behavior Modification:
Answer: is the applied science and professional practice concerned with
analyzing and modifying human behavior


●● Analyzing means:
Answer: identifying the functional relationship (A-B-C) between
environmental events and a particular behavior to understand the reasons
for the behavior or to determine why a person behaved as he or she did


●● Modifying means:
Answer: developing and implementing procedures to help people change
their behavior. It involves altering environmental events so as to
influence behavior


●● Humans like shortcuts, scubas:
Answer: labeling


●● Labels becomes who we define sometimes it's:
Answer: not always true