FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ABA 2 EXAM QUESTIONS

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ABA 2 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: What is an SD?

Answer:

An antecedent stimulus that set the occasion for a behavior to be likely to be reinforced.Question 2: Provide an example of how a problem behavior may be developed through shaping

Answer:

Giving in to tantrums

Question 3: Describe how an extinction burst may play a role in shaping

Answer:

Extinction bursts cause variability in behavior to occur

Question 4: Provide an example of the typical implementation of shaping.

Answer:

Lever pressing. Define target behavior (and determine if shaping is appropriate). Identify starting behavior. Choose shaping steps. Choose reinforcer. Reinforce successive approximations.

Question 5: (1) What is a task analysis and (2) why is it important when teaching a behavioral chain?

Answer:

• Identification of all stimuli (SDs) and responses in a behavioral chain.

• There are minor details we often overlook

Question 6: (1) Define shaping. (2) Provide a novel example (3) (include criteria of when to use shaping)

Answer:

• Differential reinforcement of successive approximations towards a target behavior. Can happen

naturally, or intentionally. Involves reinforcement and extinction.

• Playing the game "hot or cold"

• Develop new topographies/dimensions of behavior.

Question 7: Define and comment on the effectiveness of the following.

• Delay Conditioning.
• *Trace Conditioning.
• Simultaneous Conditioning. 4.Backward Conditioning.

Answer:

• NS > US (before NS ends) (most effective)

• NS > US (after NS ends) (most effective)

• NS + US (same time) (somewhat effective)

• US > NS (least effective)

Question 8: When is it appropriate to use shaping?

Answer:

When instructions/modeling/prompting don't work.

Question 9: For what types of skills is BST most appropriate?

Answer:

parenting/assertiveness/abduction prevention/social/gun play prevention. New behaviors that can be simulated via role play. Learner must be able to follow instructions and imitate model.

Question 10: Describe higher-order conditioning using an example.

Answer:

NS + CS. Clicker training

Question 11: *Define a reflex

Answer:

A response elicited by an antecedent stimulus Question 12: Why is generalization important in a behavior modification program?

Answer:

So the behaviors occurs in all the appropriate circumstances; not just in those like the training situation Question 13: Distinguish between (1) direct and (2) indirect methods of functional assessment and describe the pros and cons of each

Answer:

• Observation using ABC data. Objective

• Interview/questionnaire. Subjective/memory based

Question 14: Provide a definition of respondent conditioning using an example. Specify US, UR, NS, CS, CR, the process and the outcome.

Answer:

Manipulation of antecedent stimuli. US(food) UR(salivate) NS(bell) -> CS(bell) CR(salivate) Question 15: Describe the factors that influence the effectiveness of (1) Instructions (2) Modeling

Answer:

• Must be able to understand the learner. Teacher must be credible. Learner must pay attention.

• Model must have high status or similarity. Model must be reinforced. Complexity is appropriate for the

learner. Proper context. Variety of exemplars.Question 16: What are 2 characteristics of the starting behavior in a shaping procedure?

Answer:

• Person must already exhibit the starting behavior.

• Must be a behavior you can build on to achieve the target behavior.

Question 17: (1) Describe a behavioral chain and (2) provide a novel example

Answer:

• A sequence of behaviors.

• Cooking

Question 18: Identify and describe the 7 (first

5) strategies for promoting generalization

Answer:

• Reinforce instances of generalization

• Train skills that contact natural contingencies of reinforcement

• Modify natural contingencies

• Incorporate wide range of relevant stimulus situations

• Incorporate common stimuli

Question 19: Identify and describe the 7 (last

2) strategies for promoting generalization

Answer:

• Teach a range of functionally equivalent responses
• Incorporate self-generated mediators of generalization.

Question 20: (1) What is stimulus discrimination training? (2) What is the outcome?

Answer:

• Process of developing stimulus control. Reinforce a behavior only in the presence of an SD.

Reinforcement and extinction are used.

• Stimulus control. The behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of an SD than a S-delta

Question 21: (1) How are backward chaining and forward chaining similar (2) and how are they different?

Answer:

• They both train sequences of behavior, and require a task analysis. Prompting/fading is required for

both

• Forwards starts from the start, backwards starts from the end. Backwards can be easier to start

because it is reinforced from the first step.