ABA 622 MIDTERM EXAMPREP QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ There are two means to define a response class, one a descriptive
account and the other a functional account.
One way to functionally define a rat's lever press is...
Answer: Any behaviors (sitting, pressing the lever with paws,
standing on the lever etc.) that allow the rat to depress the lever and
receive food as a reinforcer
◉ There are two means to define a response class, one a descriptive
account and the other a functional account.
One way to descriptively define a rat's lever press is...
Answer: The minimum force required to press the lever
◉ True of False.
Secondary reinforcers or secondary punishers do not require
pairing or a learning history to function as appetitive or aversive
stimuli.
Answer: false
,◉ biological preparedness
Answer: Due to the evolutionary survival of a species, the properties
of specific stimuli as they relate to survival are more easily
conditioned than others.
◉ An Arbitrary Stimulus Class has....
Answer: no formal similarity of physical characteristics but it still
leads to relational responding
example: money has arbitrary value
◉ Phylogeny
Answer: Evolutionary history of a species
◉ Ontogeny
Answer: The history of development of an individual organism
during its lifetime.
◉ response generalization
Answer: a learner emits untrained responses that are functionally
equivalent to the trained target behavior.
◉ Stimulus generalization
, Answer: responding to different but similar stimuli in the same way
(all vechicles are "car")
◉ T/F: If there is no relevant MO present then there would likely be
no response even when the Sd was present.
Answer: true
◉ T/F: The effects of a non-contingent reinforcement intervention
are permanent because the value altering effects and behavior
altering effects will remain even when non-contingent
reinforcement is removed.
Answer: false
◉ T/F: Setting events could account for health and fitness of the
person or subject, the behavioral history, and its surroundings and
often capture complex temporally distant relationships.
Answer: true
◉ setting event
Answer: complex environmental condition that is likely to evoke
certain voluntary behaviors
◉ Motivating Operation (MO)
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ There are two means to define a response class, one a descriptive
account and the other a functional account.
One way to functionally define a rat's lever press is...
Answer: Any behaviors (sitting, pressing the lever with paws,
standing on the lever etc.) that allow the rat to depress the lever and
receive food as a reinforcer
◉ There are two means to define a response class, one a descriptive
account and the other a functional account.
One way to descriptively define a rat's lever press is...
Answer: The minimum force required to press the lever
◉ True of False.
Secondary reinforcers or secondary punishers do not require
pairing or a learning history to function as appetitive or aversive
stimuli.
Answer: false
,◉ biological preparedness
Answer: Due to the evolutionary survival of a species, the properties
of specific stimuli as they relate to survival are more easily
conditioned than others.
◉ An Arbitrary Stimulus Class has....
Answer: no formal similarity of physical characteristics but it still
leads to relational responding
example: money has arbitrary value
◉ Phylogeny
Answer: Evolutionary history of a species
◉ Ontogeny
Answer: The history of development of an individual organism
during its lifetime.
◉ response generalization
Answer: a learner emits untrained responses that are functionally
equivalent to the trained target behavior.
◉ Stimulus generalization
, Answer: responding to different but similar stimuli in the same way
(all vechicles are "car")
◉ T/F: If there is no relevant MO present then there would likely be
no response even when the Sd was present.
Answer: true
◉ T/F: The effects of a non-contingent reinforcement intervention
are permanent because the value altering effects and behavior
altering effects will remain even when non-contingent
reinforcement is removed.
Answer: false
◉ T/F: Setting events could account for health and fitness of the
person or subject, the behavioral history, and its surroundings and
often capture complex temporally distant relationships.
Answer: true
◉ setting event
Answer: complex environmental condition that is likely to evoke
certain voluntary behaviors
◉ Motivating Operation (MO)
