Spce 611 Exam 3 Questions And Answers

Sarah has a behavior of pulling the posters off the walls when she walks down the hallway during transitions. Her behavioral consultant has decided that he can decrease Sarah's target behavior by having her put her hands in her pockets during transitions. He has also instructed Sarah's teacher to provide Sarah with praise when her hands are in her pockets. Which term below best describes the technique Sarah's behavior consultant is using? {Ans: DRI}You decide to conduct a forced-choice preference assessment with a child. During the preference assessment, the child selects toy cars most frequently; therefore, it is ranked highest. Based on this information, what can you say about toy cars? {Ans: toy cars may be a reinforcer for this student}If we observe high levels of problem behavior during the alone or ignore condition compared to the control condition, we can assume that the problem behavior is maintained by: {Ans: automatic reinforcement}Multiple schedules of reinforcement are different from mixed schedules in that _____________. {Ans: Multiple schedules are signaled and mixed schedules are not signaled}The key distinction between positive and negative reinforcement is: {Ans: The type of stimulus change that occurs following a response.}A post-reinforcement pause