SPCE 611 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

SPCE 611 final exam questions and answers 100% Correct One advantage to free operant preference assessments is: there is less potential for children to satiate on the stimuli than with the force choice and approach responding assessments. they provide a rank orderof preferences, unlike forced choice assessments they can be less time consuming than forced choice and approach respoonding assessments Which type of CMO often evokes problem behavior? CMO reflexive If you are teaching a client to ma...

Description : The level of investigation that involves the collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts, and often suggests hypotheses or questions for additional research is Prediction : The level of investigation that demonstrates correlation between events and is based on repeated observation is Control : The level of investigation in which functional relations can be derived is Science : ...

What is the goal of science? : To fully understand the phenomena being studied. Events are related in systematic ways to other factors. : Determinism. An organism's interaction with the environment that's characterized by a displacement of space through time that results in a change in at least one part of the environment. EX: Picking up a pencil from the ground. : Behavior. What are the dimensions of ABA? : Applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effec...

ABA : scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those discoveries ** socially important behaviors What are the three types of investigations in science? : 1. description 2. prediction 3. control Description : collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations - sug...

One advantage to free operant preference assessments is: : there is less potential for children to satiate on the stimuli than with the force choice and approach responding assessments. they provide a rank orderof preferences, unlike forced choice assessments they can be less time consuming than forced choice and approach respoonding assessments Which type of CMO often evokes problem behavior? : CMO reflexive If you are teaching a client to make a peanut butter sandwhich, which of the fo...

If individual(s) attempt to "sabotage" a group contingency, you can address it by: : Form a separate team for the sabateurs One of the disadvantages of a dependent group oriented contingencies is : Potential for harassment for the individual whose behavior affects the reward delivery One of the advantages of contingency contracts is that they: : facilitate self-management Self-management would be a treatment of choice in the below listed instances, except : behaviors that are self-injur...

positive reinforcement : occurs when a response is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus change that increases the future occurrence of similar responses. positive reinforcer : the stimulus that is presented as a consequence, and that is responsible for the subsequent increase in responding, is called this. rule-governed behavior : behavior that is controlled by a rule that enables human behavior to come under the indirect control of temporarily remote or improbable b...

The levels of understanding science includes: : prediction, description, control Science is predicated on which assumption? : determinism When we repeat experiments, what are we hoping to establish? : Replication When we assume that inner causes or phenomena directly cause/mediate some forms of behavior, what is our approach? : mentalism Philosophic doubt does not require that the simplest most logical explanation for a phenomenon be ruled out before a more complex explanation is con...

Punishment : Presentation of a stimulus that decreases the rate of occurrence of the target behavior Negative Punishment : The removal of a stimulus that decreases the rate of occurrence of the target behavior Recovery from punishment : After punishment is discontinued, sometimes the behavior that experienced the punishment contingency will recover. Intensity Schedule Immediacy : Factors that influence the effectiveness of punishment Undesirable emotional responses Avoidance and esc...

Stan has to walk home from work, which is a one-mile walk. It is July when it is 102 degrees out. Stan sees a convenience store with a sign that says, "ice-cold drinks here," and he realizes how thirsty he is. He goes into the convenience store to buy a drink. What does the sign saying, " ice-cold drinks here" function as? : discriminative stimulus Food is a reinforcer for 5-year-old Kelsey, but she just ate lunch. What effect does eating lunch have on food as a reinforcer? : abol...

A(n) _______ measure of the actual behavior of interest will always possess more validity than a(n) _______ measure. : Direct, Indirect ______ measurement is consistent measurement : Reliable When data give an unwarranted or misleading picture of the behavior because of the way measurement was conducted, the data are called a(n) : Artifact In general, artifacts can be limited by scheduling ________ observations : Frequent Cumbersome and difficult to use measurement ________ can lead ...