Question 1

A behavioral assessment indicates that the problem behavior of a young woman is maintained by others bringing things to her or taking things away following occurrence of the behavior. Since the behavior results in physical injury, the decision to decrease its occurrence has been made. Which is the BEST general approach?

Options :

A : Determine a potential punisher and deliver it following every occurrence of the behavior, but do not provide or remove other things following the occurrence.

B : Prevent the behavior by physically blocking each response.

C : Stop providing or removing things following the behavior and allow it to undergo extinction

D : Use protective equipment that prevents injury and establish a replacement behavior that results in things being provided to or removed from the woman.

Answer: D

Question 2

In order to evoke a mand for "cookie," the behavior analyst should.

Options :

A : give the child a cookie.

B : deprive the child of cookies.

C : show the child a picture of a cookie

D : say "cookie" and praise repeating the word.

Answer: B

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT a dimension of applied behavior analysis?

Options :

A : Effective

B : Technological

C : Applied

D : Empirical

Answer: D

Question 4

The behavior analyst has had good results with an intervention she designed that makes access to video games contingent upon playing with other children. She now wants to compare the effects of differing amounts of video game access time. She should conduct a

Options :

A : changing criterion study.

B : nonparametric study.

C : parametric study.

D : reversal study.

Answer: C

Question 5

When determining the specified time interval to prescribe at the start of a DRO intervention, which of the following dimensions of the target behavior is MOST relevant?

Options :

A : latency

B : frequency

C : duration

D : inter-response time

Answer: D

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