RBT Exam 2024
Even though she has a huge exam tomorrow, Mary decides to go out with her friends. She doesn't get home until 2am and ends up failing her exam. Mary never stays out until 2am again before an exam. What influences Mary's behavior? - Answer -Positive punishment
positive reinforcement - Answer -increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.
negative reinforcement - Answer -the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape from, or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus
positive punishment - Answer -addition of something unpleasant
negative punishment - Answer -taking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a behavior
magnitude - Answer -A dad is teaching his son how to hammer nails into pieces of wood. The dad tells his son that he needs to hit the nails harder. The dad is referring to what aspect of behavior?
Latency - Answer -The sound of a gun firing signals sprinters to start running. What would the sprinters want to reduce relative to the gun going off and beginning to run?
continuous measurement requires a certain amount of resources - Answer -Which of the following aspects is a disadvantage of using continuous measurement?
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