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Jason and Justin sit together and tease one another in class. Often the teasing evolves into Jason and Justin arguing with each other. The FIRST action should be to:

A.

change the seating so that Jason and Justin are not seated together.

B.

operationally and functionally define teasing and arguing.

C.

read Jason's and Justin's files to see if they have had these problems before.

D.

ask Jason and Justin why they are arguing and suggest alternative methods for them to resolve their issues.

When asked by her father to get her glucose tested, Cindy routinely says, "No," and walks out of the room. She eventually returns and takes the test. The time between the request and Cindy's taking the test is called the:

A.

inter-response interval.

B.

compliance rate.

C.

response interval.

D.

response latency.

Why should extinction be used in combination with reinforcement-based procedures?

A.

to ensure effectiveness of the extinction procedure

B.

to eliminate the need for a punishment procedure

C.

to reduce the response effort and resistance to extinction

D.

to reduce undesirable effects such as extinction bursts and aggression

A behavior analyst has taught a student to look at the teacher when the teacher is speaking. Later, the student is observed looking at a classmate when the classmate is speaking. The student looking at the classmate is a result oF.

A.

discrimination training.

B.

response maintenance.

C.

stimulus generalization.

D.

response generalization.

A child with an advanced verbal repertoire exhibits aggression when asked to do a new math problem. In order to address the problem the behavior analyst shoulD.

A.

immediately remove the math problem.

B.

immediately show him the correct answer.

C.

implement a punishment procedure for aggression.

D.

teach the child an alternative escape response.

Self-management strategies are:

A.

applying behavior analysis principles to change one's own behavior.

B.

a method for capitalizing on an individual's will power.

C.

primarily used for extinguishing one's own undesirable behaviors.

D.

based on personalized systems of instruction.

When using time out in a classroom, which of the following should be considered?

A.

Escape behavior could be punished.

B.

Positive reinforcement for the teacher is likely to contribute to increased duration of time out.

C.

The technique is easily abused and needs to be monitored and supervised carefully.

D.

For children who are relatively non-disruptive and for innocuous behavior time out is optimal.

The MOST critical consideration when selecting a behavior change intervention is:

A.

availability of competent staff.

B.

ease of implementation.

C.

increasing a person’s independence.

D.

compliance with guardian requests.

By definition, a data recording system is valid if it:

A.

consistently measures the behavior.

B.

has demonstrated social validity.

C.

has high interobserver agreement.

D.

measures what it is supposed to.

Each response in a chain produces a stimulus change that serves as both a discriminative stimulus anD.

A.

a prompt.

B.

a limited hold.

C.

a conditioned reinforcer.

D.

an establishing operation.