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What It Is and How to Do It
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Multiple Choice Questions On Main Text
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d)an appropriate behavior occurring
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2. A behavioral excess is:
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d) an appropriate behavior occurring at the wrong time or place
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3. Which of the following is an example of behavior?
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a) hair color
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c) the clothes someone is wearing
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4. In behavior modification, motivation and intelligence refer to:
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a) inner mental processes
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c) causes of behavior
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5. In behavior modification, the term “environment” refers to:
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b) the natural habitat of an organism
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* c) the specific physical variables in one’s immediate surroundings
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d) the general situation where one happens to be
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6. A child does not pronounce words clearly and does not interact with other
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7. Behavior modifiers stress the importance of defining problems in
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terms of specific behavioral deficits or behavioral excesses because:
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a) therapists can then focus on the individual’s problem behaviors rather than
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* b) it is behavior that causes concern, and there are specific procedures
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,c) labeling an individual implies that a particular treatment program will be helpful
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d) labeling an individual is useful for quickly providing general information about
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8. Which of the following is not a characteristic of behavior modification?
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a) It defines problems in terms of behavior.
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b) Its treatment procedures and techniques are ways of rearranging an
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c) Its techniques draw extensively from the principles of operant and
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Pavlovian conditioning.
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9. Which of the following is an example of covert behavior?
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* a) a skier thinking, “I hope I don’t fall”
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c) a student drinking coffee
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10. Which of the following is an example of overt behavior?
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a) feelings of nervousness
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c) a boy on a date thinking, “I like this girl” d) imagining a beautiful sunset
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11. Behavior therapy was first used to refer to:
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clearly demonstrate controlling variables
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12. Which of the following is an example of an outcome of behavior?
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than on his or her strengths
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14. The people, objects, and events that make up a person’s environment are called:
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15. Which of the following is not a characteristic of behavior modification?
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a) Its treatment procedures are ways of altering an individual’s environment.
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16. Behavioral assessment seeks to: gg gg gg

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b) identify the type of mental disorder assumed to underlie particular patterns of
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17. Which of the following is not a misconception about behavior modification?
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18. Which of the following is an example of cognitive behavior?
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19. Behaviors to be improved in a behavior modification program are frequently called:
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a) overt behaviors
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c) cognitive behaviors
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