Behavior Change Procedures Quiz

What is the primary goal of designing and evaluating positive and negative reinforcement procedures?

• To increase the frequency of a desired behavior

• To decrease the frequency of an undesired behavior

• To maintain a behavior at its current level

• To eliminate a behavior completely

Which of the following is an example of a differential reinforcement procedure?

• Fixed-time reinforcement

• Token economy

• Differential Reinforcement of Other behavior (DRO)

• Response cost

What is a key characteristic of a fixed-time reinforcement schedule?

• Reinforcement is delivered after a fixed number of responses

• Reinforcement is delivered after a variable number of responses

• Reinforcement is delivered after a fixed amount of time, regardless of behavior

• Reinforcement is delivered after a variable amount of time, regardless of behavior

Which procedure involves using tokens as conditioned reinforcers?

• Time-out

• Token economy

• Overcorrection

• Response cost

Incorporating motivating operations and discriminative stimuli into behavior-change procedures primarily serves to:

• Decrease the effectiveness of reinforcement

• Increase the effectiveness of punishment

• Enhance the likelihood of desired behavior occurring

• Reduce the likelihood of undesired behavior occurring

What is the purpose of using stimulus and response prompting procedures?

• To eliminate the need for reinforcement

• To increase the likelihood of correct responses

• To decrease the frequency of incorrect responses

• To maintain behavior at its current level

Which of the following is a method for fading stimulus and response prompts?

• Overcorrection

• Prompt delay

• Response cost

• Time-out

Modeling procedures are primarily used to:

• Punish undesired behavior

• Demonstrate desired behavior

• Reinforce undesired behavior

• Extinguish undesired behavior

What is the main objective of shaping dimensions of behavior?

• To eliminate undesired behavior

• To gradually change a behavior towards a desired target

• To maintain behavior at its current level

• To reinforce all instances of a behavior

Which of the following is an example of a chaining procedure?

• Token economy

• Forward chaining

• Response cost

• Time-out