ABAT - Applied Behavior Analysis Test Applied Behavior Analysis Core ABA Principles 1

Question 1

Which of the following correctly identifies the three components of the three-term contingency in operant behavior?

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Antecedent, behavior, and consequence

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Setting event, behavior, and reinforcer

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Motivating operation, response, and punisher

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Discriminative stimulus, operant, and extinction

Question 2

Positive punishment is best defined as:

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Adding a stimulus following a behavior to decrease its future frequency

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Removing a stimulus following a behavior to increase its future frequency

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Adding a stimulus following a behavior to increase its future frequency

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Removing a stimulus following a behavior to decrease its future frequency

Question 3

When a previously reinforced behavior is placed on extinction and the organism initially responds at a higher rate or with greater intensity before the behavior decreases, this phenomenon is called:

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Extinction burst

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Spontaneous recovery

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Behavioral contrast

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Resurgence

Question 4

Which schedule of reinforcement delivers reinforcement after an unpredictable number of responses and produces the highest, most steady rate of responding with the greatest resistance to extinction?

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Variable ratio

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Fixed ratio

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Fixed interval

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Variable interval

Question 5

When a behavior that was trained in one setting begins to occur in other untrained settings, stimuli, or with different people, this is an example of:

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Stimulus generalization

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Stimulus discrimination

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Behavioral momentum

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Response differentiation

Question 6

A 'motivating operation' (MO) in ABA is an environmental variable that:

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Both alters the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus and alters the current frequency of behavior related to that stimulus

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Directly reinforces a target behavior by adding a preferred stimulus

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Specifies which behavior will produce reinforcement in a given context

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Permanently changes the function of a conditioned reinforcer