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ABA COOPER CHAPTER 28 GENERALIZATION AND MAINTENANCE OF
BEHAVIOR CHANGE 2025 MULTICHOICE ANSWERED EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED RATIONALES
A behavior trap is best described as:
A. A device used to measure behavior.
B. A punishment strategy to reduce unwanted behaviors.
C. ✅Contingencies of reinforcement that are especially powerful and produce substantial,
long-lasting behavior change.
D. A type of escape behavior.
Rationale: Behavior traps arrange very effective reinforcement contingencies so desirable
behavior persists over time.
A contrived contingency refers to:
A. Natural consequences occurring outside therapy.
B. A random schedule the client chooses.
C. ✅Any reinforcement or punishment contingency purposely designed and implemented by
a practitioner to teach, maintain, or generalize behavior.
D. A schedule that cannot be changed.
Rationale: Contrived contingencies are intentionally arranged by clinicians to produce behavior
change.
A contrived mediating stimulus is:
A. A naturally occurring cue in the community.
B. A consequence never used in training.
C. ✅A stimulus created in instruction that later helps prompt the learner to perform the
target behavior in generalized settings.
D. Only a punishment cue.
Rationale: These are instructional prompts or aids designed to persist as cues in natural
contexts.
General case analysis (general case strategy) is:
A. A single exemplar selection method.
B. An informal guess about generalization.
C. ✅A systematic process to choose teaching examples that represent the full range of
stimulus and response variations needed in real settings.
D. A way of measuring maintenance only.
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Rationale: General case analysis identifies representative exemplars to program broad
generalization.
Generalization in behavior analysis is:
A. A single process only linked to stimulus fading.
B. Always negative and undesirable.
C. ✅A broad term for multiple behavioral processes and outcomes where behavior transfers
across contexts, stimuli, responses, or time.
D. The same as punishment.
Rationale: Generalization includes response, setting, and subject transfer and maintenance
over time.
Generalization across subjects means:
A. The treated learner generalizes to new tasks only.
B. Only the therapist shows behavior change.
C. ✅People who were not directly treated show behavior change as a function of
contingencies applied to the primary learner.
D. The same subject in different settings.
Rationale: Interventions can produce ripple effects on untreated people (e.g., peers imitate).
A generalization probe is:
A. A probe inside the instructional session only.
B. A test of baseline responses only.
C. ✅Any measure of performance in a situation where direct training was not provided, to
assess generalization.
D. A device for measuring reinforcement.
Rationale: Probes check whether skills transfer to untrained contexts/stimuli.
A generalization setting refers to:
A. A replicate of the training room.
B. A hypothetical environment only.
C. ✅Any place or stimulus situation meaningfully different from the instructional setting
where the target behavior is desired.
D. Only the home environment.
Rationale: Generalization settings are the real-world contexts where we want behavior to
occur.
An indiscriminable contingency is one in which:
A. The learner can predict exactly when reinforcement will occur.
B. Reinforcement always occurs every time.
ABA COOPER CHAPTER 28 GENERALIZATION AND MAINTENANCE OF
BEHAVIOR CHANGE 2025 MULTICHOICE ANSWERED EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED RATIONALES
A behavior trap is best described as:
A. A device used to measure behavior.
B. A punishment strategy to reduce unwanted behaviors.
C. ✅Contingencies of reinforcement that are especially powerful and produce substantial,
long-lasting behavior change.
D. A type of escape behavior.
Rationale: Behavior traps arrange very effective reinforcement contingencies so desirable
behavior persists over time.
A contrived contingency refers to:
A. Natural consequences occurring outside therapy.
B. A random schedule the client chooses.
C. ✅Any reinforcement or punishment contingency purposely designed and implemented by
a practitioner to teach, maintain, or generalize behavior.
D. A schedule that cannot be changed.
Rationale: Contrived contingencies are intentionally arranged by clinicians to produce behavior
change.
A contrived mediating stimulus is:
A. A naturally occurring cue in the community.
B. A consequence never used in training.
C. ✅A stimulus created in instruction that later helps prompt the learner to perform the
target behavior in generalized settings.
D. Only a punishment cue.
Rationale: These are instructional prompts or aids designed to persist as cues in natural
contexts.
General case analysis (general case strategy) is:
A. A single exemplar selection method.
B. An informal guess about generalization.
C. ✅A systematic process to choose teaching examples that represent the full range of
stimulus and response variations needed in real settings.
D. A way of measuring maintenance only.
, ESTUDYR
Rationale: General case analysis identifies representative exemplars to program broad
generalization.
Generalization in behavior analysis is:
A. A single process only linked to stimulus fading.
B. Always negative and undesirable.
C. ✅A broad term for multiple behavioral processes and outcomes where behavior transfers
across contexts, stimuli, responses, or time.
D. The same as punishment.
Rationale: Generalization includes response, setting, and subject transfer and maintenance
over time.
Generalization across subjects means:
A. The treated learner generalizes to new tasks only.
B. Only the therapist shows behavior change.
C. ✅People who were not directly treated show behavior change as a function of
contingencies applied to the primary learner.
D. The same subject in different settings.
Rationale: Interventions can produce ripple effects on untreated people (e.g., peers imitate).
A generalization probe is:
A. A probe inside the instructional session only.
B. A test of baseline responses only.
C. ✅Any measure of performance in a situation where direct training was not provided, to
assess generalization.
D. A device for measuring reinforcement.
Rationale: Probes check whether skills transfer to untrained contexts/stimuli.
A generalization setting refers to:
A. A replicate of the training room.
B. A hypothetical environment only.
C. ✅Any place or stimulus situation meaningfully different from the instructional setting
where the target behavior is desired.
D. Only the home environment.
Rationale: Generalization settings are the real-world contexts where we want behavior to
occur.
An indiscriminable contingency is one in which:
A. The learner can predict exactly when reinforcement will occur.
B. Reinforcement always occurs every time.
