CTA Behavior Management Techniques 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: During a functional behavior assessment, which method involves the trainer manipulating conditions to test the function of a behavior?
- Indirect assessment
- Descriptive assessment
- Functional analysis (Correct answer)
- ABC narrative recording
Correct answer: Functional analysis
A functional analysis is an experimental method where conditions are systematically manipulated to identify the variable maintaining the behavior.
Question 2: A learner's aggression decreases when demands are removed. This negative reinforcement pattern is called:
- Escape extinction
- Escape-maintained behavior (Correct answer)
- Punishment by removal
- Response cost
Correct answer: Escape-maintained behavior
When behavior is negatively reinforced by the removal of aversive demands, it is classified as escape-maintained.
Question 3: Which intervention pairs a neutral stimulus with a conditioned reinforcer to give it motivating value?
- Token economy
- Classical conditioning pairing (Correct answer)
- Shaping
- Chaining
Correct answer: Classical conditioning pairing
Classical conditioning pairing establishes a neutral stimulus as a conditioned reinforcer by repeatedly pairing it with a known reinforcer.
Question 4: A trainer uses a visual schedule to reduce transition-related meltdowns. This is an example of which behavior management strategy?
- Contingency management
- Antecedent modification (Correct answer)
- Consequence manipulation
- Extinction procedure
Correct answer: Antecedent modification
Visual schedules are antecedent modifications that make transitions predictable, reducing problem behavior before it starts.
Question 5: Which data collection method is most appropriate for measuring the duration of an on-task behavior?
- Frequency recording
- Duration recording (Correct answer)
- Latency recording
- Interval recording
Correct answer: Duration recording
Duration recording measures the total time a behavior occurs, making it ideal for on-task or sustained behaviors.
Question 6: A behavior intervention plan includes a crisis protocol. When should the CTA implement the crisis protocol?
- As the first response to any problem behavior
- Only after all reinforcement-based strategies have failed that session
- When behavior poses imminent risk of harm to the learner or others (Correct answer)
- At the trainer's discretion regardless of severity
Correct answer: When behavior poses imminent risk of harm to the learner or others
Crisis protocols are reserved for situations involving imminent danger to protect the safety of all individuals.
Question 7: Which concept explains why a behavior that was never reinforced in a new setting may still occur there?
- Discrimination
- Extinction
- Generalization (Correct answer)
- Satiation
Correct answer: Generalization
Stimulus generalization occurs when a trained response spreads to untrained but similar stimuli or environments.
CTA Behavior Management Techniques 3
During a functional behavior assessment, which method involves the trainer manipulating conditions to test the function of a behavior?