Exam Practice Quiz 6 (6th ed)

95) Tanja brings her staff to an escape room as a team building exercise. One of

the puzzles in the escape room requires all members of the team to answer a

trivia question correctly. Only once all members answer correctly will the next

puzzle open up. What type of group contingency is this?

• Independent

• Interdependent

• Dependent

• None of the above

96) On the first day of beauty school, the lead instructor tells her class that they

must keep their stations spotless at all times. This means they need to clean

and sanitize everything at the end of the day before leaving for the night. No

direct reinforcement is ever given for doing this, but the students still keep

their stations clean. This demonstrates ______?

• Rule governed behavior

• Contingency shaped behavior

• Automatic reinforcement

• Respondent conditioning

97) Bruce gets a call from his wife telling him that she just hit someone's car in

the grocery store parking lot. She said there is some damage and that she is

going to exchange information. Bruce starts to feel angry about the fact that

this is going to cost a lot of money. Bruce's anger would not be considered a

______ from a radical behaviorism perspective.

• Behavior

• Public event

• Private event

• Part of our analysis of behavior

98) A teacher implements a behavior intervention to reduce off-task behavior in

three different classroom activities: math, reading, and group work. Data is

collected continuously, but the intervention is first introduced during math

lessons, then later in reading, and finally in group work. The intervention is not

removed once introduced. What type of design is the teacher using?

• Reversal design

• Multielement design

• Multiple baseline design

• Changing criterion design

99) Alex typically only drinks tequila when watching his favorite team on Saturday,

but, today, after seeing some of his friends drink beer, he decides that he is

going to have a beer instead of tequila today. Seeing his friends drink beer

acts as a _______.

• Discriminative stimulus

• Reinforcer

• Prompt

• Motivating operation

Which of the following areas of behavior analysis focuses on basic research that adds to the body of knowledge about behavior?

• Applied behavior analysis.

• Experimental analysis of behavior.

• Conceptual analysis of behavior.

• Behavioral services delivery.

100) Lori decides that she is going to smile at her husband whenever he takes out

the trash or washes the dishes without her asking. Lori never tells her

husband about this change, but, over time, Lori's husband is taking out the

trash and washing the dishes on a much more frequent basis. What specific

idea is associated with the fact Lori did not tell her husband what she was

doing?

• Contingencies

• Positive reinforcement

• Automaticity

• Contiguity

102) Following the introduction of a behavior intervention plan, data show that

tantrum behavior has decreased dramatically as more and more punishment

was delivered. The analysis determines that other behaviors persisted

instead of tantrums because of reinforcement from the environment. What

assumption best explains this situation?

• Determinism

• Empiricism

• Selectionism

• Parsimony

103) An italian grandma is showing her new daughter-in-law how to make her

special tomato sauce. The grandma tells the daughter that after she adds the

garlic that she needs to add the next ingredients in 30 seconds or less or the

garlic will burn. What is demonstrated in this scenario?

• Forward chaining

• Backwards chaining

• An interruption strategy

• Limited hold

104) Lauren counts to three and then sends her son to timeout when he does not

comply with her directions at home. This reduces his non-compliance. Today,

Lauren started to count to three in Target and her son's refusal to comply

stopped immediately. Counting is considered a _____?

• Automatic punisher

• Conditioned punisher

• Unconditioned punisher

• Negative punisher