BCBA Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Set 6

Trials to criterion is an appropriate measure of which dimension of behavior?

Response prompts are supplementary _________ stimuli that _________ the likelihood that the target behavior will be emitted.

Mrs. Carr's 4-year-old son, Jack, often interrupted her and asked her to play with him. Mrs. Carr would tell Jack that she would play later, but she often followed him and played for a few minutes. On a very busy day, Mrs. Carr told Jack that she could not play with him. Jack began to cry and ran out of the room. Mrs. Carr followed him, calmed him down, and played for a few minutes. This pattern was repeated several times so Mrs. Carr decided to be firm with Jack and to ignore future interruptions. The next day Jack came in sobbing and screaming, "Play now!" Mrs. Carr gave in and played with him. The most likely explanation for Jack's increasingly disruptive behavior is that:

Reinforcing "picking up shoe" in a shoe-tying program would be an example of a step in which type of training procedure?

Which procedure is the MOST reasonable and effective application of incidental teaching?

A DRO was implemented for a young child with developmental delays to address reduction in the behavior of hair pulling. The child also has excessive levels of nose picking, and skin picking. Data collection needs to include rates of these behaviors as well due to the possible effects of behavioral:

Steven lives in a group home with four other men. Most of his housemates spend about equal amounts of time in the living room and the recreation room. Steven spends about 75% of his free time in the living room and 25% in the recreation room. Staff observations have shown that staff attention is very reinforcing for Steven. If the matching law is operating in this scenario, what is the predicted rate of staff attention to Steven in the living room?

Self-management strategies are:

By the end of the training phase of an acquisition program, the reinforcement schedule should.

Which action would MOST likely increase the effectiveness of a punishment procedure?