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A child is having a tantrum in your classroom. You believe that the
tantrum is occurring for your attention. You therefore ignore the tantrum
until it ceases while continuing daily activities. You note that the
tantrums decrease over time. This is an example of:
a. Punishment
b. Establishing operation
c. Timeout from reinforcement
d. Extinction - Correct Answer - D
The results of your descriptive analysis suggest that the SIB occurs when
the mother is not in close proximity to the child. Thus, she begins to
injure herself anytime the mother leaves her side. Data also show that in
general, SIB is followed by mother returning to the child. Another
variable that you wish to study is sleep patterns. You are guessing that
when she does not sleep well, the SIB becomes more violent. This is
what type of variable?
a. SD
b. MO
c. CS
d. CR - Correct Answer - B
pg. 1
,If a study's written description of a procedure is sufficiently complete
and detailed to enable others to replicate the procedure, the study is:
a) empirical
b) technological
c) parsimonious
d) conceptually systematic - Correct Answer - B
A resident of a group home takes out the trash independently for the first
time when you make a verbal request. You provide descriptive praise
and the behavior is observed to increase in the future. You have used
what procedure?
a) negative reinforcement
b) negative punishment
c) positive reinforcement
d) CS-US pairing - Correct Answer - C
When an observer notes everything the client does or says as well as
events before and after the episode of client behavior, he/she is using:
a) A stopwatch
b) Permanent product recording
c) ABC recording
d) Whole interval recording - Correct Answer - C
If an experimental design is described as A-B-A-B, we can assume that
the B condition differs from the A condition with respect to the:
a) Dependent variable
pg. 2
,b) Independent variable
c) Abscissa
d) Duration - Correct Answer - B
An experimenter measures the level of noise in a school bus full of
children under the following conditions: Baseline, Rock Music,
Baseline, Classical Music. In this experiment, the dependent variable is:
a) Time.
b) The number of children on the bus.
c) The level of noise.
d) The type or music. - Correct Answer - C
An experimenter measures the level of noise in a school bus full of
children under the following conditions: Baseline, Rock Music,
Baseline, Classical Music. The experimental design used is:
a) Multiple baseline
b) Multi-element.
c) A-B-A-B design
d) A-B-A-C design. - Correct Answer - D
An experimenter examines the effects of token reinforcement on
wandering behavior exhibited each day for six months. The independent
variable in this study is:
a) Token reinforcement.
b) Wandering behavior.
c) Number of days.
pg. 3
, d) Number of months. - Correct Answer - A
An experimenter is interested in the effects of contingent reinforcement
(using edibles) on punctuality and scheduled activities. He chooses a
subject and on Day 1 begins collecting baseline data in the prevocational
training area, morning academic class, and afternoon social skills group.
After getting stable baseline data in all three areas, he begins treatment
in the pre-vocational area or Day 12, begins treatment in the morning
academic class on Day 23, and begins treatment in afternoon social
skills group on Day 35. What design is he using?
a) Multiple baseline across subjects
b) Multiple baseline across behaviors
c) Multiple baseline across settings
d) A-B-A-B design. - Correct Answer - C
What kind of phenomenon might pose interpretational problems in this
design?
a) Response generalization
b) Stimulus generalization
c) Momentum
d) Fading - Correct Answer - B
A person is asked to make his bed. His caregiver checks 30 minutes later
and the bed has been made. No one else was present during that time.
The staff person records that the resident made the bed, even though he
did not observe that behavior directly. The data collection method being
used is:
a) Duration recording
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COMPLETE 550 REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
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A child is having a tantrum in your classroom. You believe that the
tantrum is occurring for your attention. You therefore ignore the tantrum
until it ceases while continuing daily activities. You note that the
tantrums decrease over time. This is an example of:
a. Punishment
b. Establishing operation
c. Timeout from reinforcement
d. Extinction - Correct Answer - D
The results of your descriptive analysis suggest that the SIB occurs when
the mother is not in close proximity to the child. Thus, she begins to
injure herself anytime the mother leaves her side. Data also show that in
general, SIB is followed by mother returning to the child. Another
variable that you wish to study is sleep patterns. You are guessing that
when she does not sleep well, the SIB becomes more violent. This is
what type of variable?
a. SD
b. MO
c. CS
d. CR - Correct Answer - B
pg. 1
,If a study's written description of a procedure is sufficiently complete
and detailed to enable others to replicate the procedure, the study is:
a) empirical
b) technological
c) parsimonious
d) conceptually systematic - Correct Answer - B
A resident of a group home takes out the trash independently for the first
time when you make a verbal request. You provide descriptive praise
and the behavior is observed to increase in the future. You have used
what procedure?
a) negative reinforcement
b) negative punishment
c) positive reinforcement
d) CS-US pairing - Correct Answer - C
When an observer notes everything the client does or says as well as
events before and after the episode of client behavior, he/she is using:
a) A stopwatch
b) Permanent product recording
c) ABC recording
d) Whole interval recording - Correct Answer - C
If an experimental design is described as A-B-A-B, we can assume that
the B condition differs from the A condition with respect to the:
a) Dependent variable
pg. 2
,b) Independent variable
c) Abscissa
d) Duration - Correct Answer - B
An experimenter measures the level of noise in a school bus full of
children under the following conditions: Baseline, Rock Music,
Baseline, Classical Music. In this experiment, the dependent variable is:
a) Time.
b) The number of children on the bus.
c) The level of noise.
d) The type or music. - Correct Answer - C
An experimenter measures the level of noise in a school bus full of
children under the following conditions: Baseline, Rock Music,
Baseline, Classical Music. The experimental design used is:
a) Multiple baseline
b) Multi-element.
c) A-B-A-B design
d) A-B-A-C design. - Correct Answer - D
An experimenter examines the effects of token reinforcement on
wandering behavior exhibited each day for six months. The independent
variable in this study is:
a) Token reinforcement.
b) Wandering behavior.
c) Number of days.
pg. 3
, d) Number of months. - Correct Answer - A
An experimenter is interested in the effects of contingent reinforcement
(using edibles) on punctuality and scheduled activities. He chooses a
subject and on Day 1 begins collecting baseline data in the prevocational
training area, morning academic class, and afternoon social skills group.
After getting stable baseline data in all three areas, he begins treatment
in the pre-vocational area or Day 12, begins treatment in the morning
academic class on Day 23, and begins treatment in afternoon social
skills group on Day 35. What design is he using?
a) Multiple baseline across subjects
b) Multiple baseline across behaviors
c) Multiple baseline across settings
d) A-B-A-B design. - Correct Answer - C
What kind of phenomenon might pose interpretational problems in this
design?
a) Response generalization
b) Stimulus generalization
c) Momentum
d) Fading - Correct Answer - B
A person is asked to make his bed. His caregiver checks 30 minutes later
and the bed has been made. No one else was present during that time.
The staff person records that the resident made the bed, even though he
did not observe that behavior directly. The data collection method being
used is:
a) Duration recording
pg. 4
