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EAB test 6(questions well answered topass)
Be able to describe, generally, what is meant by delay discounting - correct answer ✔✔How the present
subjective value of a given reward declines as the delay to its receipts increases. The subjective value of
money declines less steeply across delays than the subjective value of alcohol and food. Steeper
discounting = value declines more rapidly given delays -> means immediately is more important
Be able to identify and give original examples of behavior problems that can be characterized by greater
sensitivity to immediate reinforcers than to delayed consequences of behavior - correct answer
✔✔Studying:
Immediate: lack of reinforcement, response effort, reinforcement of competing behavior (tv, parties,
phone calls)
Delayed: good grades, graduation, job or grad school
Exercise:
Immediate: punishment (sore muscles), response effort, reinforcement of competing behavior (eating,
tv, naps)
Delayed: better health, weight loss, better physique
Healthful eating:
Immediate: decreased reinforcement value, response effort to prepare healthful food, reinforcement for
competing behavior (eating junk food)
Delayed: better health, weight loss, more energy, less constipation
Be able to describe what is meant by "controlling" and "controlled" responses. - correct answer
✔✔Controlling:
The use of self-management strategies in which the antecedents and consequences of a target behavior
and/or alternative behaviors are modified
Eg. murray engages in setting goals, self-monitoring, eating a snack at work, and arranging to run with
others
Controlled:
, The target behavior that is influenced in a self-management project
Eg. Murray is more likely to run more often (running more is the controlled behavior) after implementing
those things
Be able to explain why it is important that early goals be attainable. - correct answer ✔✔Setting
unrealistic goals is bound to ruin the program. Short term goals may be more effective than long term
goals (early success promotes perseverance, setting only long term goals promotes procrastination)
Be able to briefly describe two theories regarding why self-monitoring, by itself, is sometimes effective in
changing behavior. - correct answer ✔✔Evokes self-evaluative statements that serve either to reinforce
desired behaviors or punish undesired behaviors
"Guilt control" target behavior is strengthened through negative reinforcement by escape and avoidance
of the guilty feelings that occur when one's behavior is "bad"
Be able to list or identify 6 ways in which antecedent variables could be manipulated in self-
management. - correct answer ✔✔Present discriminative cues for desirable behavior (keep the
vegetables at eye level in the refrigerator)
Eliminate cues for undesirable behavior (put sugary snacks on the top shelf in the cupboard)
Arrange establishing operations for desirable behavior (pictures of rotten teeth on mirror to make
flossing more likely)
Arrange abolishing operation for undesirable behavior (eat a healthy snack before food shopping)
Decrease effort for desirable behavior (keeps your study materials in your backpack)
Increase response effort for undesirable behavior (remove that "bad influences" number from your
contacts)
Be able to explain the ways that it is important to enlist the help of others in a self-management program
(Miltenberger p. 311) and what is meant by "short-circuiting"? - correct answer ✔✔Social support, self-
instruction, self-praise
Short-circutting: occurs when a person arranges a reinforcer for a target behavior but then takes the
rein-forcer without first engaging in the target behavior. Alternatively, short-circuiting may occur when a
person arranges punishment for a target behavior but does not implement the punishment after
engaging in the target behavior.
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