Behavior Reduction and Antecedent Interventions Flashcards
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Which antecedent intervention involves altering setting events or motivating operations to reduce the value of problem behavior reinforcers?
Answer: Abolishing operation manipulation
Manipulating abolishing operations (AOs) reduces the effectiveness of the reinforcer maintaining problem behavior, thereby decreasing the likelihood of that behavior.
Non-contingent reinforcement (NCR) reduces problem behavior primarily by:
Answer: Abolishing the motivating operation maintaining problem behavior
NCR delivers the reinforcer on a time-based schedule independent of behavior, which serves as an abolishing operation that reduces the value of that reinforcer and the problem behavior it maintains.
Functional Communication Training (FCT) replaces problem behavior by teaching a communicative response that:
Answer: Accesses the same reinforcer as the problem behavior
FCT is effective because the alternative communicative response produces the same reinforcer that was maintaining the problem behavior, making the new response equally or more efficient.
Which procedure involves the systematic removal of a preferred item or activity contingent on problem behavior?
Answer: Response cost
Response cost is a penalty-based punishment procedure in which a specified amount of a conditioned positive reinforcer is removed following problem behavior.
A behavior analyst recommends high-probability request sequences before asking a learner to complete a low-probability task. This is an example of:
Answer: Behavior momentum
Behavioral momentum uses a series of high-p requests reinforced before the low-p request to build compliance momentum and reduce problem behavior associated with transitions.
Which of the following best defines an extinction burst?
Answer: A temporary increase in frequency, intensity, or variability of behavior at the start of extinction
An extinction burst is the immediate temporary increase in responding—often accompanied by emotional behavior and response variation—that occurs at the onset of extinction.