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WorksheetsABA 101
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
Intermittent reinforcement should occur......
When moving from a primary to secondary reinforcement
When teaching new behaviors or behaviors that are on acquisition
When maintaining behaviors that are already learned
When a learned does not respond well to continuous reinforcement
Bri is implementing a 5 minute DRO with her client to reduce his pinching behavior. In order to implement DRO correctly, after every 5 minutes that her client does not engage in pinching, Bri should...…?
Give her client a reinforcer
Reset the time interval for the next 5 minutes
Record that no pinching occurred during the interval onto the datasheet
All of the above
Rachel’s team taught her how to wash her hands. Four months later, Rachel can still wash her hands with no prompts, and she does so on her own at appropriate times. Rachel’s hand washing behavior has been successfully _______?
Generalized
Maintained
Prompted
Differentially reinforced
When updating a caregiver, parent or grandparent regarding how the client performed during a session, it is important to ___?
Discuss in length every challenging behavior that occurred during the session
Balance out difficult feedback with positive feedback
Only share positive information
Just drop the client off and do not share with the caregiver how the session was.
The repeated presentation of the same discriminative stimulus is called
Error correction
Discrimination training
Mass trial/in isolation
Random rotation
Samantha engages in slapping behavior when presented with instruction during learning activities. The behavior has been determined to be maintained by escape from demands. The BSP indicates that the therapists will teach Samantha to say “break” so that she can get what she needs without slapping. Extinction is to be used as an intervention when slapping occurs. You present the instruction for an activity and Samantha slaps you. Which best explains how you would implement the intervention?
Block the slapping behavior with your hand, provide the instruction “hands down,” and continue with the activity.
Provide Samantha with a break since she is in need of one
Reinforce Samantha for not engaging in slapping for designated periods of time. When slapping does occur, ignore the behavior
Continue presenting the instruction and do not respond to the slapping behavior.
A stimulus control transfer procedure refers to ______
A procedure where one stimulus which controls a certain behavior is paired with another stimulus until the new stimulus gains control over the behavior
A procedure where reinforcement is gradually thinned and faded away
A procedure where target responses are taught in their natural environment with naturally occurring reinforcement
A procedure where learned responses are generalized across different people and places
Typically, ______ reinforcement is used to strengthen a new behavior that is being acquired by a new client, and _______ reinforcement is used to maintain a skill once it has been learned.
Effective/ ineffective
Positive/ Negative
Continuous/ intermittent
Natural/ unnatural
Julianna engages in yelling during break time at school. The yelling behavior is maintained by attention from her instructor and peers. After realizing the issue, the instructor gives Juliana attention every 5 minutes throughout her day in the form of praise, pats on the back, and thumbs up, regardless of Julianna’s behavior. Julianna’s rate of yelling begins to decrease. This is an example of what antecedent intervention?
Demand fading
FCT (functional communication training)
Behavior momentum
Non-contingent reinforcement
After your session, the caregivers of your client ask to speak with you. They ask you how much longer your client will need ABA services. You should _______.
Tell them you will look into their data and programming and get back to them
Tell them you will have the BCBA contact them to further discuss the question.
Tell them, at the rate the client is progressing, another year or so and they will be good to go.
Tell them that the client has mastered all of their targets and should be ready to be discharged at any time.
