ABA 626 Foundations of Behavior Analysis:
Comprehensive Exam Study Guide & Conceptual
Summaries Arizona State University
Psychology
is an advanced course in Applied Behavior Analysis that focuses on the conceptual and
philosophical foundations of behaviorism, primarily examining radical behaviorism and B.F.
Skinner's theories. Students learn to analyze complex human behavior through behavioral
mechanisms, exploring the distinction between radical behaviorism, methodological behaviorism,
and experimental analysis. Mastery of these conceptual frameworks prepares future Board
Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) to accurately interpret, predict, and modify behavior in
diverse clinical settings.
You are teaching a large group of students who are disrupting class
by talking out of turn, laughing and throwing things at each other.
You want to improve their behavior, so you decide to implement a
DRA intervention. To due this, you will reinforce: an appropriate
behavior that is an alternative to the disruptive behaviors You are
working with a young child with Rett Syndrome who engages in very
frequent self-injurious finger picking, hair pulling, and face
scratching. You have observed that sitting on the mom's lap while
playing with toys is reinforcing, so you decide to use this the
reinforcer. You implement a fixed-momentary DRO using a 5-second
,interval based on baseline data. Which of the following describes a
fixed momentary DRO procedure most accurately:
Set a timer for 5 seconds. at the end of 5 seconds, the child can play with
mom and toys if there is not finger picking, hair pulling or face scratching
at that exact moment.
Contingency independent antecedent strategies:
Don't depend on differential consequences for the problem behavior.
During instructional time, a teenager who was deaf-blind poked his
eye repeatedly to activate his optic nerve and generate a visual
sensation. In addition to interventions to prevent injury to the eye,
the behavior analyst could consider which of the following NCR
reinforcers? visually stimulating objects such as flashing glow sticks
Recording procedure used to record the extent to which a target
behavior occurs more often at a particular time than others.
Scatterplots.
Observers record occurrences of the targeted problem behaviors
and selected environmental events in the natural routine during a
period of time.
ABC Continuous Recording
True or False: A functional relation is only achieved through control
and involves a specific change in the one event (dependent variable),
that can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another
event (independent variable),and the change in the dependent
variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors
(confounding variables).
True
, True or False: There are three levels of understanding with science:
prediction, description and control.
True
Mr. Goldstein decides to give his students points, usable for extra
free time, when they raise their hands and wait to be called on. He
discovers that more students raise their hand and fewer students
blurt out answers when he awards points than when he does not.
This finding seems to show
Functional Relation between points and hand raising.
If a behavior analyst wants to develop a behavior intervention plan
based on the strongest possible, empirically-derived information
about the target behavior, they are most likely to do so only after
demonstrating
experimental control over the behavior
a functional relation between an independent variable and the behavior,
and a reliable change in the behavior given repeated manipulation of
particular aspect of the environment.
Renee is not fond of reading, but for each book she read her teacher
gave points that could be exchanged for a variety of things she liked.
At a certain point in the school year, the teacher decided that
reading should be intrinsically reinforcing by now, and discontinued
the point system. The fact that Renee subsequently read less
probably is an indicator of
Extinction
Comprehensive Exam Study Guide & Conceptual
Summaries Arizona State University
Psychology
is an advanced course in Applied Behavior Analysis that focuses on the conceptual and
philosophical foundations of behaviorism, primarily examining radical behaviorism and B.F.
Skinner's theories. Students learn to analyze complex human behavior through behavioral
mechanisms, exploring the distinction between radical behaviorism, methodological behaviorism,
and experimental analysis. Mastery of these conceptual frameworks prepares future Board
Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) to accurately interpret, predict, and modify behavior in
diverse clinical settings.
You are teaching a large group of students who are disrupting class
by talking out of turn, laughing and throwing things at each other.
You want to improve their behavior, so you decide to implement a
DRA intervention. To due this, you will reinforce: an appropriate
behavior that is an alternative to the disruptive behaviors You are
working with a young child with Rett Syndrome who engages in very
frequent self-injurious finger picking, hair pulling, and face
scratching. You have observed that sitting on the mom's lap while
playing with toys is reinforcing, so you decide to use this the
reinforcer. You implement a fixed-momentary DRO using a 5-second
,interval based on baseline data. Which of the following describes a
fixed momentary DRO procedure most accurately:
Set a timer for 5 seconds. at the end of 5 seconds, the child can play with
mom and toys if there is not finger picking, hair pulling or face scratching
at that exact moment.
Contingency independent antecedent strategies:
Don't depend on differential consequences for the problem behavior.
During instructional time, a teenager who was deaf-blind poked his
eye repeatedly to activate his optic nerve and generate a visual
sensation. In addition to interventions to prevent injury to the eye,
the behavior analyst could consider which of the following NCR
reinforcers? visually stimulating objects such as flashing glow sticks
Recording procedure used to record the extent to which a target
behavior occurs more often at a particular time than others.
Scatterplots.
Observers record occurrences of the targeted problem behaviors
and selected environmental events in the natural routine during a
period of time.
ABC Continuous Recording
True or False: A functional relation is only achieved through control
and involves a specific change in the one event (dependent variable),
that can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another
event (independent variable),and the change in the dependent
variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors
(confounding variables).
True
, True or False: There are three levels of understanding with science:
prediction, description and control.
True
Mr. Goldstein decides to give his students points, usable for extra
free time, when they raise their hands and wait to be called on. He
discovers that more students raise their hand and fewer students
blurt out answers when he awards points than when he does not.
This finding seems to show
Functional Relation between points and hand raising.
If a behavior analyst wants to develop a behavior intervention plan
based on the strongest possible, empirically-derived information
about the target behavior, they are most likely to do so only after
demonstrating
experimental control over the behavior
a functional relation between an independent variable and the behavior,
and a reliable change in the behavior given repeated manipulation of
particular aspect of the environment.
Renee is not fond of reading, but for each book she read her teacher
gave points that could be exchanged for a variety of things she liked.
At a certain point in the school year, the teacher decided that
reading should be intrinsically reinforcing by now, and discontinued
the point system. The fact that Renee subsequently read less
probably is an indicator of
Extinction
