BAS MOCK EXAM REVIEW #1 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Variable Interval Schedule
Answer:
In order for something to be a variable interval schedule, for example VI 5
minutes, the reinforcement would have to be given to the correct response
directly after the 5 minutes are up.
Question:
Group designs VS Single-subject designs
Answer:
Group design takes the average between groups, masks variability and
differences, and makes replication difficult. Single-subject design use a visual
analysis instead of statistical, shows variability, and allows for replication.
Question:
Reliability
Answer:
repeated measures that reveal similar measurements or results, indicate reliability,
and focuses NOT on repeatability but on whether measuring the behavior more
than once gives similar results
Question:
is the measurement of whether you are "measuring what you want to know," are
you actually targeting the behavior you said you were targeting? If yes, that is
validity.
Answer:
Validity
Question:
Third Step of BST
Answer:
Modeling: requiring the supervisee to pose as the client while you model the
presentation of the stimuli
Question:
What is one major problem with ineffective supervision
and why?
Answer:
future clients may be harmed; because it may result in supervisors who can't
produce good results and it increases potential risks of harm to current and future
clients and supervisees or trainees
Question:
, How is behavior momentum achieved?
Answer:
with easy (aka high probability) requests, that are quickly followed by a harder task
(low probability) request.
Question:
Explain Ethics Code 2.12: Considering Medical Needs
Answer:
ensure to the best of your ability that medical needs are assessed and addressed
if there is any reasonable likelihood that a referred behavior is influenced by
medical or biological variables (aka PARSIMONY, rule out all logical explanations
first)
Question:
What is a simple discrimination?
Answer:
described a three term contingency
EX: "next" is presented (SD), press the next button (response), and the next
question appears (SR+ aka reinforcement)
Question:
If a goal does not seem socially significant, or a behavior
does not seem to be targeted then what should you do?
Answer:
Not move forward with that goal, even if you continue to "monitor" or look into it,
then you'll eventually find a problem to target. Sometimes it best to just leave it
alone, if it does not seem significant enough.
Question:
this is when the subject is presented with an antecedent or consequence by
another person
Answer:
Socially-mediated contingency
Question:
Multiple schedules are
Answer:
successive, meaning they are available one at a time, rather than all of them at
once
Question:
Explain Ethics Code 6.07:
Answer:
The ethical responsibility is to the client, rather than the research outcomes. That is
why implementing an intervention for SIB is needed, even if experimental control
may not be able to be demonstrated with the client.
Question:
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Variable Interval Schedule
Answer:
In order for something to be a variable interval schedule, for example VI 5
minutes, the reinforcement would have to be given to the correct response
directly after the 5 minutes are up.
Question:
Group designs VS Single-subject designs
Answer:
Group design takes the average between groups, masks variability and
differences, and makes replication difficult. Single-subject design use a visual
analysis instead of statistical, shows variability, and allows for replication.
Question:
Reliability
Answer:
repeated measures that reveal similar measurements or results, indicate reliability,
and focuses NOT on repeatability but on whether measuring the behavior more
than once gives similar results
Question:
is the measurement of whether you are "measuring what you want to know," are
you actually targeting the behavior you said you were targeting? If yes, that is
validity.
Answer:
Validity
Question:
Third Step of BST
Answer:
Modeling: requiring the supervisee to pose as the client while you model the
presentation of the stimuli
Question:
What is one major problem with ineffective supervision
and why?
Answer:
future clients may be harmed; because it may result in supervisors who can't
produce good results and it increases potential risks of harm to current and future
clients and supervisees or trainees
Question:
, How is behavior momentum achieved?
Answer:
with easy (aka high probability) requests, that are quickly followed by a harder task
(low probability) request.
Question:
Explain Ethics Code 2.12: Considering Medical Needs
Answer:
ensure to the best of your ability that medical needs are assessed and addressed
if there is any reasonable likelihood that a referred behavior is influenced by
medical or biological variables (aka PARSIMONY, rule out all logical explanations
first)
Question:
What is a simple discrimination?
Answer:
described a three term contingency
EX: "next" is presented (SD), press the next button (response), and the next
question appears (SR+ aka reinforcement)
Question:
If a goal does not seem socially significant, or a behavior
does not seem to be targeted then what should you do?
Answer:
Not move forward with that goal, even if you continue to "monitor" or look into it,
then you'll eventually find a problem to target. Sometimes it best to just leave it
alone, if it does not seem significant enough.
Question:
this is when the subject is presented with an antecedent or consequence by
another person
Answer:
Socially-mediated contingency
Question:
Multiple schedules are
Answer:
successive, meaning they are available one at a time, rather than all of them at
once
Question:
Explain Ethics Code 6.07:
Answer:
The ethical responsibility is to the client, rather than the research outcomes. That is
why implementing an intervention for SIB is needed, even if experimental control
may not be able to be demonstrated with the client.
Question:
