Unit 1

Question 1

Type of work conducted in early behavior analysis

Answer 1

Topography-based bx modification/management

Question 2

Populations served in early behavior analysis

Answer 2

Prisoners; severe autism, mental retardation, schizophrenia

Question 3

Conducted the early applications of behavior analysis

Answer 3

Behavioral experimental psychology graduates

Question 4

Used by ABA pioneers to evaluate effectiveness in the real world

Answer 4

Early applications of EAB

Question 5

Year ABA was formalized

Answer 5

1968

Question 6

Caused the drift to behavior modification and management

Answer 6

Institutional need for “behavior modifiers”

Question 7

Approach used by behavior modifiers

Answer 7

“Topography-based” behavior reduction

Question 8

Focuses only on problem bx

Answer 8

Behavior Management

Question 9

4 Characteristics of Bx Mod

Answer 9

Cook-book approach
Topography-based
Technologist
Procedures at the core

Question 10

4 Characteristics of Behavior Analysis

Answer 10

Individualized
Function-based
Analysts
Basic principles at the core

Question 11

4 Characteristics of Problem Behavior

Answer 11

Minimizes achieving meaningful outcomes
Minimizes access to reinforcers
Maximizes contact with punishers
May result in restricted access to community

Question 12

5 parameters of Problem Behavior

Answer 12

Rate (too high)
IRT (too short)
Duration (too long)
Severity/intensity (too high)
Wrong place, situation, or time

Question 13

Model for treating problem bx based on form of the bx

Answer 13

Topography-based treatment model

Question 14

Characteristics of Topography-based Treatment

Answer 14

Delivered aversive &restrictive punishers
Used artificial &arbitrary reinforcers
Used thinned reinforcement schedules

Question 15

Cook-book approach

Answer 15

one size fits all

Question 16

Taught non-functional incompatible behaviors

Answer 16

Topography-based DRI

Question 17

Alternative bx benefited caregivers and not client

Answer 17

Topography-based DRA

Question 18

3 Limitations of Topography-based model

Answer 18

Contingent relations not broken
Bx did not maintain or generalize
Problem bx hidden under tight stimulus control

Question 19

Model for treating problem bx based on the function

Answer 19

Function-based treatment model

Question 20

An appropriate form of communication is taught to replace problem bx

Answer 20

FCT

Question 21

FCT Stage 1

Answer 21

Conduct a functional assessment or analysis

Question 22

FCT Stage 2

Answer 22

Train and differentially reinforce a communicative response

Question 23

FCT Stage 3

Answer 23

Transfer control to real-life settings and persons

Question 24

More specific words taugh tand results in a larger speaker repertoire

Answer 24

Mand training

Question 25

3 strategies for promoting generalization in FCT

Answer 25

Incorporate multiple trainers & settings Include like stimuli Sequential modification

Question 26

Is our subject matter Bx alone?

Answer 26

No; includes operants, respondents, contingencies, functional relations

Question 27

Are the “functions of bx” only“attention, tangibles, escape, and automatic reinforcement”?

Answer 27

No; typical statements about “function” are oversimplifications

Question 28

Should antecedents only have a first name?

Answer 28

No; antecedents only exist in relation to consequences (last name)

Question 29

Can we neglect context?

Answer 29

No; behavior changes in relation to context

Question 30

Are we effective if we only change behavior?

Answer 30

No;change real-world contingencies to achieve meaningful outcomes

Question 31

Manipulation of a stimulus produces a reliable &predictable change in a response

Answer 31

Functional Relation

Question 32

4 characteristics of functional relations

Answer 32

Probabilistic Nonlinear Complex Allows for predictions

Question 33

Functional Relations are probablistic

Answer 33

Not cause-and-effect or deterministic

Question 34

Functional Relations are nonlinear

Answer 34

Compared to nonlinear equations in calculus

Question 35

Functional Relations are complex

Answer 35

Functional relations change with respect to context

Question 36

Common definition of function

Answer 36

What an organism“does”and “why”

Question 37

Scientific definition of function

Answer 37

A mathematical relation between stimulus classes and response classes

Question 38

Problem with using the “everyday definition of function”

Answer 38

Practitioners use teleological explanations

Question 39

One event depends on another

Answer 39

Contignency

Question 40

Derive effects on bx from a past history of differential availability with a consequence

Answer 40

Discriminative Stimuli

Question 41

Derive effects on bx from their value-altering effect on consequences

Answer 41

Motivating Operation

Question 42

Consequence leads to the development of that discriminative stimulus

Answer 42

Last name of an discriminative stimuli

Question 43

The consequence whose value is being altered

Answer 43

Last name of motivating operation