SPE 526: M2 Active Student Responses
questions and answers already passed
- a negative reinforcer - correct answer ✔✔Tom is afraid of dogs. When he was a child, he was
bitten by a feral dog when he approached it. After that, whenever he sees a stray dog on the
street, he would immediately move away. In this scenario, the sight of a feral dog is
_______________.
- a negative reinforcer
- a punisher
- a positive reinforcer
- neutral stimulus
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider using a different
type of reinforcer - correct answer ✔✔A behavior therapist is teaching a client match-to-sample
skill using a food item as the reinforcer. Which of the procedures will be the most effective use
of reinforcement?
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider using a different
type of reinforcer
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider teaching a
different skill.
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider continued use of
food item.
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider not using a
reinforcer.
- taking away an earned reinforcer. - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is most likely a
negative punisher?
, - taking away an earned reinforcer.
- giving an individual a toy.
- withholding a reinforcer.
- requiring the individual repeat the correct response for 5 times.
- All statements are correct.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher with a higher intensity is preferred than mild ones.
- The necessity of using punishment must be justified.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher is suggested to be used across environment to avoid
behavioral contrast. - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following statements on punishment is
correct?
- All statements are correct.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher with a higher intensity is preferred than mild ones.
- The necessity of using punishment must be justified.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher is suggested to be used across environment to avoid
behavioral contrast.
- If a stimulus is presumably a reinforcer, immediate delivery after the target response should
maximize its effects. - correct answer ✔✔Select the best answer:
- Positive reinforcement requires a stimulus change to be contingent on a response, which
increases the response in the future, and this stimulus change must be socially positive.
- If a stimulus is presumably a reinforcer, immediate delivery after the target response should
maximize its effects.
- None are correct.
- For John, the only reinforcer is chocolate because he likes chocolate.
questions and answers already passed
- a negative reinforcer - correct answer ✔✔Tom is afraid of dogs. When he was a child, he was
bitten by a feral dog when he approached it. After that, whenever he sees a stray dog on the
street, he would immediately move away. In this scenario, the sight of a feral dog is
_______________.
- a negative reinforcer
- a punisher
- a positive reinforcer
- neutral stimulus
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider using a different
type of reinforcer - correct answer ✔✔A behavior therapist is teaching a client match-to-sample
skill using a food item as the reinforcer. Which of the procedures will be the most effective use
of reinforcement?
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider using a different
type of reinforcer
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider teaching a
different skill.
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider continued use of
food item.
- After the client has received a lot of food items, the therapist should consider not using a
reinforcer.
- taking away an earned reinforcer. - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is most likely a
negative punisher?
, - taking away an earned reinforcer.
- giving an individual a toy.
- withholding a reinforcer.
- requiring the individual repeat the correct response for 5 times.
- All statements are correct.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher with a higher intensity is preferred than mild ones.
- The necessity of using punishment must be justified.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher is suggested to be used across environment to avoid
behavioral contrast. - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following statements on punishment is
correct?
- All statements are correct.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher with a higher intensity is preferred than mild ones.
- The necessity of using punishment must be justified.
- If a punisher is used, the punisher is suggested to be used across environment to avoid
behavioral contrast.
- If a stimulus is presumably a reinforcer, immediate delivery after the target response should
maximize its effects. - correct answer ✔✔Select the best answer:
- Positive reinforcement requires a stimulus change to be contingent on a response, which
increases the response in the future, and this stimulus change must be socially positive.
- If a stimulus is presumably a reinforcer, immediate delivery after the target response should
maximize its effects.
- None are correct.
- For John, the only reinforcer is chocolate because he likes chocolate.
