CBMT Exam Prep Questions with Correct Answers

CBMT Exam Prep Questions with Correct Answers Behavior Therapy (applied behavior analysis, behavior modification) - Answer-Therapeutic intervention designed to change behavior using techniques of operant and respondent conditioning as well as behavior analysis. Cue - Answer-stimulus, prompt): An event that sets the occasion or a certain event to occur. Discriminative Stimulus - Answer-A cue which results in a response when that response occurs only after its presentation, and not after other cues. Fading - Answer-The gradual removal of explicit prompts or cues in an attempt to maintain the behavior on its own. Generalization - Answer-The transfer of effects to other behaviors, stimuli, conditions or settings. Group contingencies - Answer-Consequences for a group as a whole dependent upon the occurrences of specified behavior in the entire group. Insight Therapy - Answer-An approach to psychotherapy whose objective is awareness of causes or motivations for behavior which, then, leads to control over the behavior and improvement of one's condition. Melodic IntonationTherapy - Answer-Clinical uses of melodies that emphasize intonation in normal speech to develop language skills in aphasic patients and others needing remediation in propositional language. Negative Punishment - Answer-The removal of stimulus, resulting in a decrease in behavior, e.g. stopping the music after the occurrence of inappropriate behavior which rests in a decrease of inappropriate behavior