A punishment contingency is LEAST likely to produce which effect?

A. Undesirable emotions may result.

B. Aggressive or violent behavior may be evoked.

C. A more appropriate replacement behavior may develop.

D. The person delivering the punisher may become an aversive stimulus.

Results of a functional assessment reveal that a child engages in hand-biting when she is in a room by herself. The likely function of behavior is:

A. Attention

B. Access to tangibles

C. Escape/avoidance

D. Automatic reinforcement

What if you teach the child to swim in a pool and the child goes to the beach and can do the front crawl in the ocean?

A. Stimulus generalization

B. Response generalization

C. Failure to generalize

D. Natural contingencies

For which of the following would it be appropriate to measure duration?

A. Amy responds very slowly to instructions during her discrete trials teaching sessions.

B. Ethan leaves his work station and wanders around the building.

C. Sarah takes so long to begin her math assignments in class that she is never able to finish on time.

D. Ryan is trying to increase the speed of his typing at the computer keyboard.

In self-control, where does the ultimate control lie? (Or, why is self-control a misnomer?)

A. With the self

B. The choice of the person

C. In the environment

D. With a contract manager

The number of time intervals in a specific period of time during which a response occurs continuously for an entire interval is which measure?

A. Partial-interval recording

B. Whole-interval recording

C. Momentary time sampling

D. Percentage of occurrence

A DRI schedule designed to decrease the frequency of running around class and tapping other children on the head involves:

A. Arranging for the child to earn a reinforcer in the absence of these behaviors

B. Providing a reinforcer contingent on being on task and sitting quietly in his seat

C. Changing the seating arrangement of the class

D. Ensuring the child had breakfast that morning

One limitation of descriptive analysis is that it:

A. does not allow the behavior analyst the opportunity to measure, record, and interpret the data on the target behavior.

B. does not permit the precise determination of functional relationships.

C. provides a less than adequate description of the topography and intensity of behavior.

D. violates the individual's right to privacy.

Missy is using a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate the effects of peer tutoring to teach three students to complete division problems. These three students have had no prior instruction in division. Missy MOST LIKELY chose a multiple probe design rather than a multiple baseline design becausE.

A. the students' baseline scores will be zero.

B. the students could not miss class very often.

C. other extraneous variables may cause their skills to improve.

D. she is interested in comparing the effects of three interventions at once.

A behavior analyst responsible for the evaluation of a behavior change program has been unable to get others to collect data on the targeted behaviors. The others involved, including other service providers, are relying on personal anecdotes and questionnaires to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. The primary consumer reports satisfaction with the results so far. To evaluate the program, the behavior analyst should:

A. check the reliability from the questionnaire's information.

B. conduct formal interviews to supplement the available information.

C. obtain data on the targeted behaviors.

D. use available information only.