Comp Practice Flashcards
For behaviors measured by interval recording methods that occur at very high or very low rates, _____________ is likely to over-estimate agreement between observers.
all of these
When measuring duration data, two methods might be used to calculate IOA. One method _______________ provides no assurance that the observers recorded the same duration for the same occurrences of behavior. To get a more accurate measure of the reliability of such data, ____________ should be used as it is a more conservative and meaningful estimate of IOA of duration data.
total duration/ mean-duration-per occurrence
Josephine is using a partial interval recording for a behavior that occurs at a very low rate. Which method of IOA is most appropriate?
scored interval
Janelle is observing a behavior therapist implement a lesson on verbal behavior that includes 20 distributed trials of tact, intraverbal, and listener responding training. She is recording the child’s performance independent of the behavior therapist and, after observing the lesson, plans to calculate IOA. Which method would she use?
trial by trial method
Katy is measuring the # of times she touches/ scratches her head for a self-management plan (she wants to decrease this behavior). She is taking a 30 minute sample, 3 times per day. During the 30 minutes she is recording each occurrence. To assess the quality of her measurement, she asks her roommate to count the # of occurrences in one 30-minute sample. She will use her roommates count and her own during the same 30 minute period to calculate IOA. Which would be the easiest (although least accurate) way to do so?
total count
Petagaye is conducting a research study to teach her clients in a residential home to complete the steps in a task analysis on making their bed. One of the issues she has discovered while conducting the study; however, is that her participants struggle with getting started. In this portion of the study, Petagaye is collecting data on the elapse of time between the presentation of the stimulus instruction to “go make your bed” and her client’s behavior of walking to their bed to begin. She and her study partner have each collected data. Which method of IOA would be the best method to use for this type of data?
mean latency per response
Joee is working with a client, Rob, who engages in moderate rates of aggressive behaviors. Joee has set up a frequency data system whereby staff record the total amount of aggression they observed at the end of the day on a data sheet (they tally it all day long on a golf-clicker). She is concerned that her staff are not collecting data correctly as last week, she was in doing an observation and noticed that several staff members didn’t record some data that should have been recorded. When Joee asked why, the staff said that the behavior the student exhibited didn’t really meet the criteria for aggression. Joee disagrees. This week she is stopping by to collect some IOA data. Staff don’t know that she is coming nor do they know what she will be doing when she is there. Given the information provided, which method of IOA can Joee use after she does her indiscrete observation?
total count
Terry is working in the yard removing stumps. The first 3 come out easy, and he has 1 more to finish the job. It is deeper and more difficult, and he cannot do it without a pulley and chain. He goes into the garage and gets the equipment he needs. The presence of the 4th stump serves as a (n):
CMO-T (Transitive)
For an entire semester, John had an early class in the city. He took the train into the city each day to get to class on time; he seldom had time for breakfast, so he was often hungry on the train.
The following semester, class began later, and John began to eat before he got on the train. He found that, as soon as he sat down on the train, he would feel hungry and want to eat, even though he had already eaten.
In this example, the train serves as a:
CMO-S (Surrogate)
Graber (2016) examined the effects of blending preferred stimuli within non-preferred tasks on escape maintained problem behavior. All 8 participants were 100% compliant with tasks historically associated with non-compliance once preferred stimuli were incorporated into those tasks. Relative to the non-compliant behavior and the desire to escape, the addition of the preferred tasks serve as a (n) ___________ operation.
abolishing
Stevie comes home from school at 3:00. He gives his mother his home-to-school notebook and she reviews the news from school. The teacher noted that fish sticks were served at lunch today and Stevie did not even try a bite. Stevie last ate at 7:00 A.M., and his mom recognized this as an opportunity to work on mand training. In this scenario, Stevie’s mother was:
Capturing a motivating operation
When asked to perform a given task, a person with a history of repeated failure with that task is less likely to comply and instead may be more apt to emit overt or subtle aggressive responses as a means of escaping the situation. This example provided by Wallace et al. (2014) is an example of a:
CMO-R (Reflexive)
Michael (1993) stated that discriminative stimuli are related to the differential ________ of reinforcement, while motivational variables are related to the differential reinforcing _____ of environmental events.
availability/effectiveness
Karen was running late and went to grab her car key from the key rack. The key was not there. Karen looked in all of the usual places she would leave her key. Hunting for the keys was evoked by this particular set of circumstances. The absence of the key in this scenario is a:
CMO-T (Transitive)
Erika was at the grocery store getting ready to check out. She noticed a cooking magazine with a picture of a four-layer chocolate cake, her very favorite. After staring at the picture for a minute her mouth began to water. Erika got out of line and went to the bakery where she saw a similar cake. She bought the cake and left the store in a hurry with a plan to get home quickly. Driving down the highway faster than usual Erika spots a car driving in the opposite direction. The driver of this car was flashing the headlights. Erika driver in the other car was signaling a problem ahead. About a half mile later, she saw a police officer with a radar gun on the side of the road. In this scenario the magazine picture is a:
CMO-S (Surrogate)
Mark is driving from Salina to Green River, Utah. He sees a sign with the McDonald’s golden arches and other symbols for food, gas and a bathroom. The sign also indicates the next available exit or rest area with services is 100 miles away. Mark pulls over gets a big mac and gets back into the car. The McDonald’s sign functioned as a(n):
Sd
What characteristic is needed in the baseline phase to enable baseline logic?
steady state responding
