BCBA (29) Questions with CORRECT Answers
Question:
EAB Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Answer:
Basic research which includes cumulative records, manipulation of variables,
automated recording and usually done in a clinical/lab setting.
Question:
How did Skinner expand the definition of communicative behavior?
Answer:
Skinner broadened the term beyond vocal speech to include gestures and other forms
of nonverbal (i.e. nonvocal) communication - writing, typing, signing, PECS, etc.
Question:
What is meant by Rule Governed Behavior?
Answer:
A person's behavior is controlled by verbal or textual antecedents. Don't text and
drive. Fasten your seatbelt. Enables human behavior to come under the indirect
control of temporally remote or improbable but potentially significant
consequences Contrast to contingencyshaped behavior which = behavior selected and
maintained by controlled, temporally close consequences.
Question:
Explain the relationship that contingencyspecifying stimuli have to rule governed
behavior.
Answer:
Words function as discriminative stimuli, describing the relations between the
response and its consequences and antecedents. It is not behavior that has been
shaped by direct exposure to the contingencies specified. For example, you don't
have to experience the alarm sounding to avoid walking through a door marked
"Emergency exit only. Opening door will activate alarm."
, Question:
Why are inaccurate rules that lead to ineffectual behavior followed?
Answer:
At times, people fail to discriminate between accurate and inaccurate rules. We
become so accustomed to following rules, that we may become less aware of the
contingencies of reinforcement that are actually occurring in the situation versus
what we know to be the rules of the situation.
Question:
Rule governed behavior vs Contingency shaped behavior
Answer:
Subject's who were told to press a button to receive points were less likely to
change their behavior when the contingencies changed than subjects who learned to
press the button through shaping and successive approximations.
Question:
What are some examples of problems that may be encountered in communicative
behaviors?
Answer:
1.Inadequate verbal repertoires - if an individual can not ask for what they want
or use words to rid themselves of aversive stimuli, they are more likely to engage
in problem behavior to escape demand situations.
Question:
Problems in rule formulation of the verbal community
Answer:
problems may arise in subcultures which fail to develop adequate rules or yield
inaccurate rules. For example, if a subculture develops rules to discourage
seeking medical attention for lifethreatening diseases.
Question:
EAB Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Answer:
Basic research which includes cumulative records, manipulation of variables,
automated recording and usually done in a clinical/lab setting.
Question:
How did Skinner expand the definition of communicative behavior?
Answer:
Skinner broadened the term beyond vocal speech to include gestures and other forms
of nonverbal (i.e. nonvocal) communication - writing, typing, signing, PECS, etc.
Question:
What is meant by Rule Governed Behavior?
Answer:
A person's behavior is controlled by verbal or textual antecedents. Don't text and
drive. Fasten your seatbelt. Enables human behavior to come under the indirect
control of temporally remote or improbable but potentially significant
consequences Contrast to contingencyshaped behavior which = behavior selected and
maintained by controlled, temporally close consequences.
Question:
Explain the relationship that contingencyspecifying stimuli have to rule governed
behavior.
Answer:
Words function as discriminative stimuli, describing the relations between the
response and its consequences and antecedents. It is not behavior that has been
shaped by direct exposure to the contingencies specified. For example, you don't
have to experience the alarm sounding to avoid walking through a door marked
"Emergency exit only. Opening door will activate alarm."
, Question:
Why are inaccurate rules that lead to ineffectual behavior followed?
Answer:
At times, people fail to discriminate between accurate and inaccurate rules. We
become so accustomed to following rules, that we may become less aware of the
contingencies of reinforcement that are actually occurring in the situation versus
what we know to be the rules of the situation.
Question:
Rule governed behavior vs Contingency shaped behavior
Answer:
Subject's who were told to press a button to receive points were less likely to
change their behavior when the contingencies changed than subjects who learned to
press the button through shaping and successive approximations.
Question:
What are some examples of problems that may be encountered in communicative
behaviors?
Answer:
1.Inadequate verbal repertoires - if an individual can not ask for what they want
or use words to rid themselves of aversive stimuli, they are more likely to engage
in problem behavior to escape demand situations.
Question:
Problems in rule formulation of the verbal community
Answer:
problems may arise in subcultures which fail to develop adequate rules or yield
inaccurate rules. For example, if a subculture develops rules to discourage
seeking medical attention for lifethreatening diseases.
