CBMT Exam Prep Questions with Correct Answers

ehavior Therapy (applied behavior analysis, behavior modification) - AnswerTherapeutic 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. Orff-Schulwerk - Answer-An approach to music education by Carl Orff that emphasizes creative experience, natural abilities and sounds, the pentatonic scale and obstinate. Paired-associate - Answer-Presentation of one word as the stimulus for the recall of a second word. Positive Reinforcement - Answer-The presentation of a stimulus, resulting in an increase in the behavior it follows, e.g., practicing piano increases when the purchase of a new piano is made contingent upon greater practice time. Psychiatric Musicology - Answer-A music therapy approach which uses music as a metaphor for examining relationships. Psychodynamic Therapy - Answer-A system of psychotherapy based on an individual's unconscious motivation and past experience. Rational Emotive Therapy - Answer-A system of psychotherapy proposed by Albert Ellis which attempts to confront one's rational