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A client under your supervision engages in frequent
rumination that appears to have resulted in substantial
weight loss. What is the first assessment task?
a. Systematic manipulation of some variable
b. Records review
c. Nothing - the behavior is not change worthy
d. Conduct an IQ test - Correct Answer ✅ B
You find that one of your clients has a substantial anxiety
reaction to being in the lunchroom. You posit that there is
some kind of respondent conditioning process that has
caused this, and you wish to try respondent extinction. This
would involve
a. Social extinction - ignore the child when he becomes
anxious
b. Escape extinction - do not let the child escape from the
lunchroom
c. Have the child frequently enter the lunchroom without any
"traumatic" events occurring.
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d. Have the child perform a task while in the lunchroom. -
Correct Answer ✅ C
The philosophy of determinism, as applied to the analysis of
behavior, assumes that behavior is:
a. subject to random occurrences.
b. caused by some event or combination of events.
c. a cause of other events.
d. determined by the will of the person. - Correct Answer
✅B
You take an initial baseline on "in seat" behavior. You then
implement a token economy in which in seat behavior is
reinforced with tokens. Your treatment team decides to
demonstrate the efficacy of the token system, and
recommends an A-B-C-B reversal design. Which of the
following is an example of such a design?
a. In the 3rd phase, stop implementing the token system
b. In the 3rd phase, present tokens for out of seat behavior
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c. Present the tokens for in seat behavior in another setting
d. Implement a schedule of less frequent tokens in phase 3 -
Correct Answer ✅ B
You are talking with a staff member about a client's behavior,
and that staff tells you that the client exhibited a tantrum the
other day. You wish to set up a program, but you feel that you
will need consent to do it. What are the three elements
needed?
a. capacity, informed, voluntariness
b. informed, voluntariness, older than 18 years old
c. no coercion, cost/benefits, approval
d. informed, approval, legal age - Correct Answer ✅ A
Describe how a DRI schedule might be used to decrease the
frequency of walking around and bothering other workers at
the work site.
a. Have the person earn a reinforcer contingent on the
absence of bothering others
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b. Provide a reinforcer contingent on working diligently and
quietly at his seat
c. Move his seat away from others and make it somewhat
"isolated."
d. Reinforce appropriate asking to visit others - Correct
Answer ✅ B
You are having trouble getting Kenny on the van. Apparently,
the action is effortful, as he has to climb up the stairs, which
gives him trouble. In fact, he has actually given up even
trying. Using behavioral momentum, how can this be treated?
a. Provide a reinforcer for getting on the van.
b. Prompt him briskly down the hall, and release him right
before he reaches the steps of the van. Then fade the release
point backwards.
c. Give a reinforcer for some low effort actions then give the
direction to "get on the van."
d. Give small reinforcers for just looking at the van, then
slowly increase the size of the reinforcer as he begins getting
up to walk toward the van. - Correct Answer ✅ C
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