EDF 6222 UPDATED EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔why is "effective" reinforcer redundant - ✔✔-the nature of a reinforcer is that it
increases the behavior
-"ineffective" reinforcers don't exist because a reinforcer is only a reinforcer if it
increases a behavior
✔✔what is verbal behavior? - ✔✔behavior that is reinforced based on the effects that it
has on other people
✔✔what do verbal communities influence? - ✔✔repertoire of the speaker
✔✔language - ✔✔interactions that take place between speakers and listeners
✔✔can verbal behavior occur spontaneously? - ✔✔yes, once the verbal repertoire is
shaped by the audience
✔✔nonverbal - ✔✔eradicate possibility of any mode of communication including sign,
gestures, and PECS
✔✔nonvocal - ✔✔spoken language is not used to communicate
, ✔✔how do words develop meaning? - ✔✔by the listener's responses to the word
✔✔Who came up with precision teaching? - ✔✔Ogden Lindsley
✔✔what is a referent - ✔✔-every term must have an entity to which it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
✔✔what is rate of response? - ✔✔frequency
✔✔frequency is a ___________ - ✔✔dimension of behavior
✔✔which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage -
✔✔frequency - 10-100x more sensitive
✔✔precision teaching - ✔✔method that adjusts the curricula for each learner to
maximize learning based on their own celeration chart
✔✔what graph does precision teaching use? - ✔✔standard celeration chart
✔✔standard celeration chart - ✔✔A semilogarithmic chart that enables the visual
display of celeration, a factor by which rate of behavior multiples or divides per unit of
time
✔✔what is one reason why a lesson can be reinforcing? - ✔✔students are able to
demonstrate their knowledge
✔✔enviroment - ✔✔any event in the universe capable of affecting the organism (some
of that universe is private)
✔✔how do private events and overt events differ? - ✔✔based on their accessibility
✔✔why do we mistrust verbal responses to private events? - ✔✔bcs we can't establish
them to be true
✔✔3 types of internal stimuli - ✔✔-interoceptive
-proprioceptive
-exteroceptive
✔✔interoceptive - ✔✔stimuli related to digestion, respiratory, and circulatory systems
✔✔proprioceptive - ✔✔stimuli related to tendoins, muscles, balance or movement,
internal events
ex: dizziness after riding a motorcycle
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔why is "effective" reinforcer redundant - ✔✔-the nature of a reinforcer is that it
increases the behavior
-"ineffective" reinforcers don't exist because a reinforcer is only a reinforcer if it
increases a behavior
✔✔what is verbal behavior? - ✔✔behavior that is reinforced based on the effects that it
has on other people
✔✔what do verbal communities influence? - ✔✔repertoire of the speaker
✔✔language - ✔✔interactions that take place between speakers and listeners
✔✔can verbal behavior occur spontaneously? - ✔✔yes, once the verbal repertoire is
shaped by the audience
✔✔nonverbal - ✔✔eradicate possibility of any mode of communication including sign,
gestures, and PECS
✔✔nonvocal - ✔✔spoken language is not used to communicate
, ✔✔how do words develop meaning? - ✔✔by the listener's responses to the word
✔✔Who came up with precision teaching? - ✔✔Ogden Lindsley
✔✔what is a referent - ✔✔-every term must have an entity to which it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
✔✔what is rate of response? - ✔✔frequency
✔✔frequency is a ___________ - ✔✔dimension of behavior
✔✔which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage -
✔✔frequency - 10-100x more sensitive
✔✔precision teaching - ✔✔method that adjusts the curricula for each learner to
maximize learning based on their own celeration chart
✔✔what graph does precision teaching use? - ✔✔standard celeration chart
✔✔standard celeration chart - ✔✔A semilogarithmic chart that enables the visual
display of celeration, a factor by which rate of behavior multiples or divides per unit of
time
✔✔what is one reason why a lesson can be reinforcing? - ✔✔students are able to
demonstrate their knowledge
✔✔enviroment - ✔✔any event in the universe capable of affecting the organism (some
of that universe is private)
✔✔how do private events and overt events differ? - ✔✔based on their accessibility
✔✔why do we mistrust verbal responses to private events? - ✔✔bcs we can't establish
them to be true
✔✔3 types of internal stimuli - ✔✔-interoceptive
-proprioceptive
-exteroceptive
✔✔interoceptive - ✔✔stimuli related to digestion, respiratory, and circulatory systems
✔✔proprioceptive - ✔✔stimuli related to tendoins, muscles, balance or movement,
internal events
ex: dizziness after riding a motorcycle
