SPCE 611 EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● Contingency Reversal
Answer: Involves changing the contingencies or relationships between
behavior and its consequences. It is used to determine if behavior
changes in the expected manner when the contingencies are altered,
providing insight into the function of the behavior.
●● Evocative Effect
Answer: An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been
reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event whose reinforcing
effectiveness depends on the same motivating operation.
●● Extinction
Answer: The withdrawal or termination of reinforcement following a
response (e.g. when a vending machine fails to deliver a soda after and
individual makes a selection)
●● Successive Approximation
Answer: The process of reinforcing steps of desirable behaviors which
are getting closer to the target behavior.
●● Extinction-Induced Variability
, Answer: A phenomenon in which diverse and novel forms of behavior
are sometimes observed during the extinction process.
●● Reflexive Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-R)
Answer: When a stimulus gains the properties of a MO because it
signals a situation is getting better or worse.
●● Enriched Environment
Answer: An intervention that provides noncontingent access to preferred
sources of reinforcement (e.g. toys, social and recreation activities). This
noncontingent access to preferred reinforcers arranges a competition
between the enriched environment and the stimulation provided by the
problem behavior.
●● Teach Loosely
Answer: A method to program for generalization during instruction that
involves broadening the variety of the non-critical aspects of the SD,
like the environmental variables (people, locations) that have nothing to
do with what is being trained, so that the irrelevant environmental
variables don't acquire control over the correct response.
●● Backwards Chaining with Leap Aheads
Answer: A teaching method used in where the last step of a task is taught
first, but not every step in the task analysis is trained.
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● Contingency Reversal
Answer: Involves changing the contingencies or relationships between
behavior and its consequences. It is used to determine if behavior
changes in the expected manner when the contingencies are altered,
providing insight into the function of the behavior.
●● Evocative Effect
Answer: An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been
reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event whose reinforcing
effectiveness depends on the same motivating operation.
●● Extinction
Answer: The withdrawal or termination of reinforcement following a
response (e.g. when a vending machine fails to deliver a soda after and
individual makes a selection)
●● Successive Approximation
Answer: The process of reinforcing steps of desirable behaviors which
are getting closer to the target behavior.
●● Extinction-Induced Variability
, Answer: A phenomenon in which diverse and novel forms of behavior
are sometimes observed during the extinction process.
●● Reflexive Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-R)
Answer: When a stimulus gains the properties of a MO because it
signals a situation is getting better or worse.
●● Enriched Environment
Answer: An intervention that provides noncontingent access to preferred
sources of reinforcement (e.g. toys, social and recreation activities). This
noncontingent access to preferred reinforcers arranges a competition
between the enriched environment and the stimulation provided by the
problem behavior.
●● Teach Loosely
Answer: A method to program for generalization during instruction that
involves broadening the variety of the non-critical aspects of the SD,
like the environmental variables (people, locations) that have nothing to
do with what is being trained, so that the irrelevant environmental
variables don't acquire control over the correct response.
●● Backwards Chaining with Leap Aheads
Answer: A teaching method used in where the last step of a task is taught
first, but not every step in the task analysis is trained.
