FREE ABAT Procedures and Intervention Questions and Answers

Question 1

Manipulating a students chair in a classroom setting to avoid distraction from the window is an example of a manipulation of a:

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Context variable

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Antecedent variable

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Confounding variable

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Ecological variable

Question 2

What is the most reasonable reinforcement method used for the development of stimulus control?

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More frequent reinforcement of a target behavior in the presence of the discriminative stimulus than in the presence of the S-delta

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Accidental reinforcement

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The Premack Principle

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Extinction

Question 3

When altering variables based on the identification of functional relations, caution should be taken to:

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Avoid strengthening unwanted behavior

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Avoid strengthening wanted behavior

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Avoiding confounding variable

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None of the above.

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT  an example of an ecological strategy to evoke appropriate behaviors?

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Teaching to ask for breaks

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Providing choice

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Task variation

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All of the above.

Question 5

A teacher wants to use incidental teaching to a student for the skill of washing hands. Which is the best example of how to do that:

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Take student outside to play in the mud and then call for lunch

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Set up trials for hand washing

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Social story on hand washing

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All of the above.

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a procedure for determining a potential reinforcer for a student:

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Send a list of reinforcers to parents and have them complete and circle choices

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Have a set of reinforcers on a table and have students select

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Conduct an interview with the student and talk bout choices

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None of the above.

Question 7

By selecting candy as a reinforcer and deciding that the child can have 3 pieces for every correct response. The teacher has utilized which parameter of reinforcement:

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Quantity

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Timing

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Variety

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None of the above.

Question 8

The longer the latency of delivery of reinforcement the more likely the:

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Intervening response will be reinforced

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Behavior will be reinforced

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Behavior will remain the same

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All of the above.

Question 9

By placing a limited hold on intervals of reinforcement the following is possible:

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The rate will increase

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The rate will decrease

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The rate will stay the same

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Nothing will happen

Question 10

By thinning a schedule of reinforcement gradually we actually avoid:

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Decreased performance

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Satiation

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Increased aggression

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Increased performance