ABA 101

Who founded modern behaviorism?

• Keanu Reeves

• Pavlov

• The Backstreet Boys

• B.F. Skinner

A motivating operation (MO) is _______.

• The outcome that immediately follows the learner’s response

• An antecedent condition that momentarily affects the value of an item and affects the likelihood that behaviors which have produced that item in the past will occur.

• The procedure of providing consequences for a behavior that increases or maintains the strength of that behavior

• The time between the end of one trial and the start of the next.

You are taking partial interval data on a client engaging in self-injurious behaviors (SIB’s) in a 5 minute interval. How would you take this data?

• Mark it if the SIB’s occurred anytime within each 5-minute interval

• Mark it only if the SIB’s occurred for the entire 5-minute interval

• Mark it only if the behavior occurred at the end of each 5 minute interval

• Mark it only if the behavior did not occur at all during each 5-minute interval

Your client’s rate of aggression has increased. The previous rate was one time per hour and your last session the rate increased to 30 per hour. You should…..?

• Wait and see if the behavior decreases over the next several days

• Inform your supervisor/BCBA immediately regarding the change in behavior

• Tell the parents to cancel sessions for the rest of the week, since he obviously isn’t feeling well

Which of the following behaviors is easiest to measure?

• Kara’s stomach ache

• Kara’s frustration

• Kara shouting YAY!

• Kara’s love for Target

Which of the following is an example of a stimulus control transfer procedure?

• Pairing the instructions, “Make a sandwich,” with a video model, then fading the video model until the client can make a sandwich when given the instructions only

• Offering choices of a sandwich or salad for lunch

• Giving praise for making a sandwich within a 5-minute interval

• Having the client discriminate between making a sandwich and making popcorn when giving the instructions

Melissa’s spitting is maintained by escape from demands and tasks. An appropriate replacement behavior for Melissa’s spitting would be ____?

• Teaching Melissa to spit in a cup

• Teaching Melissa to say, “Can we talk?”

• Teaching Melessa to sit nicely

• Teaching Melissa to request for a break

Extinction is best described as ______?

• Removing reinforcement from a learner upon the occurrence of a particular behavior

• Ignoring the learner for a set period of time following the occurrence of a particular behavior

• No longer providing reinforcement for a particular behavior when it occurs

• None of the above

At first, Amanda was not interested in earning stickers for engaging in appropriate play activities. However, after stickers were paired with the delivery of other reinforcers such as pretzels and social praise, Amanda is now motivated to earn stickers. In this example, a sticker would be considered to be a/an _______?

• Unconditioned reinforcer

• Conditioned reinforcer

• Conditioned punisher

• Unconditioned punisher

Which is the most complete definition of behavior?

• Anything a person says or does

• When a person engages in a destructive action

• Any socially inappropriate action a person engages in

• Any socially appropriate action a person engages in