BEHV 5612 - CUM EXAM 1 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2025
What does ABA improve? - Answers socially significant behaviors that have immediate and long
lasting effects
What is ABA concerned with? - Answers producing predictable and replicable improvements in
behavior
What are the four phases of systematic instruction? - Answers 1. assessment 2. planning 3.
implementation 4. evaluation
What does comprehensive behavioral assessment do? - Answers informs planning, provides
guidance for implementation and assists with evaluation
What does a behavioral assessment include? - Answers indirect and direct procedures to
identify and define target behavior
What is the principal goal of a behavioral assessment? - Answers identify environmental
variables that are related to increases or decreases in target behavior; discovers function of the
behavior it serves
What are the phases of a behavioral asssessment? - Answers 1. screening 2. defining and
quantifying problems/establishing outcome criteria 3. pinpointing target behavior 4. monitoring
progress 5. following up
Target behavior - Answers specific behavior selected for change
What do indirect assessments involve? - Answers recollections, reconstructions, subjective
ordinal scale ratings of events
What is an example of an indirect assessment? - Answers interviews, checklists, rating scales -
can be open or close ended
What does a behavior checklist provide? - Answers description of specific behaviors and the
conditions under which each behavior occurs
What does a direct assessment provide? - Answers provides measurable and validated
information about learner behavior
What is an example of direct assessment? - Answers tests (criterion-referenced, curriculum-
based), direct observation
What is a criterion-referenced-assessment? - Answers measures skill performance across
recognized and commonly accepted developmental milestones
What is a curriculum-based assessment? - Answers data obtained bear uniquely on the daily or
weekly tasks performed in response to planned lessons
, What are direct observations useful for? - Answers determining target behavior to assess
What is anecdotal (ABC) observation? - Answers records descriptive, temporally sequenced
account of all behaviors of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those
behaviors as events occur
What is an ecological assessment? - Answers alot of information is gathered about a person
and various environments in which the person lives and works
What is reactivity? - Answers effects that an assessment has on the behavior being assessed
What is habilitation? - Answers degree to which the person's repertoire maximizes short and
long terms reinforcers for that individual and others and minimizes short and long term
punishers
What is the relevance of behavior rule? - Answers target behavior should be selected only when
it can be determined that the behavior is likely to produce reinforcement in the person's natural
environment
What is a norm-referenced test? - Answers compare an individual's performance with a
comparable norm group
What is behavior cusp? - Answers learner performs a new behavior that sets the occasion to
access reinforcers that otherwise wouldn't have been available
What are examples of a behavior cusp? - Answers crawling, reading, generalized imitation
What is pivotal behavior? - Answers behavior that produces corresponding modifications or
covariations in other adaptive untrained behaviors
What is an example of pivotal behavior? - Answers self-initiate, choice-making, functional
communication
What is normalization? - Answers Use of progressively more typical environments expectations
and procedures to establish and or maintain personal behaviors which are as culturally normal
as possible
Normalization should never plan to reduce or eliminate a behaviors from a person's repertoire
without? - Answers 1. determining an adaptive behavior that will take its place (fair pair rule) 2.
designing intervention plan to ensure replacement behavior is learned
What approach should be taken to replace behaviors instead of the eliminative approach? -
Answers Constructional approach
Behavior must be defined in what manner? - Answers clear, objective and concise
What are the two ways behavior is defined? - Answers functionally and topographically
What does ABA improve? - Answers socially significant behaviors that have immediate and long
lasting effects
What is ABA concerned with? - Answers producing predictable and replicable improvements in
behavior
What are the four phases of systematic instruction? - Answers 1. assessment 2. planning 3.
implementation 4. evaluation
What does comprehensive behavioral assessment do? - Answers informs planning, provides
guidance for implementation and assists with evaluation
What does a behavioral assessment include? - Answers indirect and direct procedures to
identify and define target behavior
What is the principal goal of a behavioral assessment? - Answers identify environmental
variables that are related to increases or decreases in target behavior; discovers function of the
behavior it serves
What are the phases of a behavioral asssessment? - Answers 1. screening 2. defining and
quantifying problems/establishing outcome criteria 3. pinpointing target behavior 4. monitoring
progress 5. following up
Target behavior - Answers specific behavior selected for change
What do indirect assessments involve? - Answers recollections, reconstructions, subjective
ordinal scale ratings of events
What is an example of an indirect assessment? - Answers interviews, checklists, rating scales -
can be open or close ended
What does a behavior checklist provide? - Answers description of specific behaviors and the
conditions under which each behavior occurs
What does a direct assessment provide? - Answers provides measurable and validated
information about learner behavior
What is an example of direct assessment? - Answers tests (criterion-referenced, curriculum-
based), direct observation
What is a criterion-referenced-assessment? - Answers measures skill performance across
recognized and commonly accepted developmental milestones
What is a curriculum-based assessment? - Answers data obtained bear uniquely on the daily or
weekly tasks performed in response to planned lessons
, What are direct observations useful for? - Answers determining target behavior to assess
What is anecdotal (ABC) observation? - Answers records descriptive, temporally sequenced
account of all behaviors of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those
behaviors as events occur
What is an ecological assessment? - Answers alot of information is gathered about a person
and various environments in which the person lives and works
What is reactivity? - Answers effects that an assessment has on the behavior being assessed
What is habilitation? - Answers degree to which the person's repertoire maximizes short and
long terms reinforcers for that individual and others and minimizes short and long term
punishers
What is the relevance of behavior rule? - Answers target behavior should be selected only when
it can be determined that the behavior is likely to produce reinforcement in the person's natural
environment
What is a norm-referenced test? - Answers compare an individual's performance with a
comparable norm group
What is behavior cusp? - Answers learner performs a new behavior that sets the occasion to
access reinforcers that otherwise wouldn't have been available
What are examples of a behavior cusp? - Answers crawling, reading, generalized imitation
What is pivotal behavior? - Answers behavior that produces corresponding modifications or
covariations in other adaptive untrained behaviors
What is an example of pivotal behavior? - Answers self-initiate, choice-making, functional
communication
What is normalization? - Answers Use of progressively more typical environments expectations
and procedures to establish and or maintain personal behaviors which are as culturally normal
as possible
Normalization should never plan to reduce or eliminate a behaviors from a person's repertoire
without? - Answers 1. determining an adaptive behavior that will take its place (fair pair rule) 2.
designing intervention plan to ensure replacement behavior is learned
What approach should be taken to replace behaviors instead of the eliminative approach? -
Answers Constructional approach
Behavior must be defined in what manner? - Answers clear, objective and concise
What are the two ways behavior is defined? - Answers functionally and topographically
