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  1. A behavior analyst uses a token economy in which students earn tokens for on-task behavior and exchange them for preferred activities. The tokens in this system function as:

    Answer: Conditioned reinforcers

    Tokens are conditioned (secondary) reinforcers because they acquire reinforcing value through pairing with backup reinforcers.

  2. Which of the following is an example of a motivating operation (MO) that increases the reinforcing value of water and increases water-seeking behavior?

    Answer: Depriving an individual of water for several hours

    Water deprivation is an establishing operation (a type of MO) that increases the value of water as a reinforcer and evokes water-seeking behavior.

  3. Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) involves:

    Answer: Reinforcing the absence of the target problem behavior for a specified interval

    DRO delivers reinforcement contingent on the absence of the target behavior for a set time interval, regardless of what other behaviors occur.

  4. A BCBA uses whole-interval recording to measure on-task behavior. This method tends to:

    Answer: Underestimate behavior occurrence

    Whole-interval recording requires the behavior to occur throughout the entire interval, which typically results in an underestimate of actual behavior occurrence.

  5. Which concept explains why a child who was scolded (punished) for lying will stop lying in front of the teacher but continues to lie at home?

    Answer: Stimulus discrimination

    Stimulus discrimination occurs when a behavior is reinforced in the presence of one stimulus (SD) but not another (SΔ), producing differential responding.

  6. In shaping, a behavior analyst reinforces successive approximations toward a target behavior. Which concept explains why previously reinforced approximations eventually stop being reinforced?

    Answer: Differential reinforcement and extinction

    In shaping, earlier approximations are placed on extinction while closer approximations are differentially reinforced, gradually moving behavior toward the target.

  7. Which of the following best defines 'response cost'?

    Answer: The removal of a specified amount of a reinforcer contingent on a behavior

    Response cost is a form of negative punishment in which a quantity of a previously earned reinforcer is removed contingent on the target behavior.