Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
SPE 526 Module 5: Stimulus Control
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Which of the following statement is correct?
Statement 1: The example of not answering the phone when hearing the doorbell or
the alarm clock demonstrates a stimulus-delta condition.
(HINT: Does doorbell signal the availability of social reinforcement for answering the
phone?)
Statement 2: In the example of wearing sunglasses in a sunny day and not removing
the sunglasses in the supermarket, the sun is an SD for wearing sunglasses, and the
supermarket is an SDp for removing sunglasses.
(HINT: In this scenario, the sun evoked a behavior of wearing sunglasses. However, can
the sun signal the availability of sunglasses at all or is the sun an MO? In addition, for
the supermarket to become an SDp, it must signal a punisher for removing sunglasses?
Was removing sunglasses punished?)
✓ Only statement 1 is correct
Which of the following procedures may work as an AO that abates a problem behavior?
✓ Noncontingent delivery of maintaining reinforcer.
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Getting warmer as a UAO can:
(HINT: Does a UAO evoke a response and establish reinforcement effectiveness or
abate a response and abolish reinforcement effectiveness?)
✓ abate all behavior that results in getting closer to a heat source.
Emma only slept for 3 hours last night. During the math class today, the teacher kept
on asking her questions. She got annoyed and responded, "shut up!" Based on this
scenario, select the best answer.
✓ The lack of enough sleep evoked her response, "Shut up!"
✓ (HINT: Can the lack of enough sleep be the EO for her response?)
The difference between a UMO and a CMO is that ______________________.
✓ A CMO was a neutral stimulus before acquiring value-altering and behavior-
altering effects.
✓ (HINT: Review how a CMO acquires its effects.)
A man went to a foreign country. He does not speak the language. When he was
hungry the first day there, he bought the food from a street vendor by pointing to the
food that he wanted. The second day, he went to the same street vendor and pointed
to the food again. Based on this scenario, select the incorrect answer.
A. If an establishing operation exists the second day, pointing to the food was evoked
by that establishing operation.
Top Mark !!!
SPE 526 Module 5: Stimulus Control
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Which of the following statement is correct?
Statement 1: The example of not answering the phone when hearing the doorbell or
the alarm clock demonstrates a stimulus-delta condition.
(HINT: Does doorbell signal the availability of social reinforcement for answering the
phone?)
Statement 2: In the example of wearing sunglasses in a sunny day and not removing
the sunglasses in the supermarket, the sun is an SD for wearing sunglasses, and the
supermarket is an SDp for removing sunglasses.
(HINT: In this scenario, the sun evoked a behavior of wearing sunglasses. However, can
the sun signal the availability of sunglasses at all or is the sun an MO? In addition, for
the supermarket to become an SDp, it must signal a punisher for removing sunglasses?
Was removing sunglasses punished?)
✓ Only statement 1 is correct
Which of the following procedures may work as an AO that abates a problem behavior?
✓ Noncontingent delivery of maintaining reinforcer.
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Getting warmer as a UAO can:
(HINT: Does a UAO evoke a response and establish reinforcement effectiveness or
abate a response and abolish reinforcement effectiveness?)
✓ abate all behavior that results in getting closer to a heat source.
Emma only slept for 3 hours last night. During the math class today, the teacher kept
on asking her questions. She got annoyed and responded, "shut up!" Based on this
scenario, select the best answer.
✓ The lack of enough sleep evoked her response, "Shut up!"
✓ (HINT: Can the lack of enough sleep be the EO for her response?)
The difference between a UMO and a CMO is that ______________________.
✓ A CMO was a neutral stimulus before acquiring value-altering and behavior-
altering effects.
✓ (HINT: Review how a CMO acquires its effects.)
A man went to a foreign country. He does not speak the language. When he was
hungry the first day there, he bought the food from a street vendor by pointing to the
food that he wanted. The second day, he went to the same street vendor and pointed
to the food again. Based on this scenario, select the incorrect answer.
A. If an establishing operation exists the second day, pointing to the food was evoked
by that establishing operation.
Top Mark !!!
