Stimulus Control Exam Questions And Answers 100% Pass
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Stimulus Control Exam Questions And
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Stimulus Control - answerOccurs when an individual behaves one way in the presence of a
stimulus & another way in its absence.
Ex: Hearing music ----> Dancing
Reinforcers - answerConsequences that increase a behavior.
Punishers - answer...
Stimulus Control Exam Questions And
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Stimulus Control - answer✔Occurs when an individual behaves one way in the presence of a
stimulus & another way in its absence.
Ex: Hearing music ----> Dancing
Reinforcers - answer✔Consequences that increase a behavior.
Punishers - answer✔Consequences that weaken a behavior.
Antecedents - answer✔Variables in the 3-term contingency that are said to be responsible for
stimulus control.
Operant Conditioning - answer✔States that behavior is controlled by its consequences.
Increases because they are reinforced, & decreased because they are punished.
Discriminative Stimuli (SD) - answer✔A stimulus that is delivered to provoke an individual to
engage in a particular behavior. Occurs right before a behavior.
Motivating Operations (MO) - answer✔Antecedent events that alter the value of a reinforcer or
punisher.
Ex: Running in hot weather, water becomes reinforcing, runner engages in behavior to get
water.
What best describes stimulus control? - answer✔When an individual behaves one way in the
presence of a stimulus & differently in the presence of another.
Which part of the 3-contingency is the most responsible for exerting stimulus control over a
particular behavior? - answer✔Antecedents
Stimulus Data - answer✔Stimuli NOT intended to evoke behavior.
Stimulus Class - answer✔A set of stimuli that share a common attribute.
Ex: Several items that are red used as stimuli to evoke the correct response to SD "Touch red".
Stimulus Equivalence - answer✔Occurs when a response is correctly displayed in the presence
of a stimulus that has not been trained or reinforced.
Reflexivity - answer✔The stimulus is matched to the target response with a distractor present.
Ex: A=A, poodle picture--->poodle picture
Symmetry - answer✔The stimulus & the response can be reversed.
Ex: A=B (trained), B=A (untrained), RBT says "dog", child selects picture of golden retriever
(trained) then says dog.
Transitivity - answer✔Occurs as a result of training 2 other stimulus relations.
Ex: A=B, B=C (trained), A=C (untrained), RBT says "dog", child selects picture of golden retriever
(trained). RBT says "match with dog", picture of pug is shown & matched with golden retriever
(trained), RBT says "dog", child selects picture of pug (untrained).
Pretending Skills - answer✔Refer to those actions that allow an individual to orient to the
correct stimulus.
Ex: Looking in the direction of stimulus, listening to directions, sitting quietly.
Stimulus Salience - answer✔Refers to the importance of the extra stimuli or variables in the
individuals environment.
Ex: RBT delivers SD, child response appropriately because they are familiar with RBT. Unfamiliar
RBT delivers same SD & child does not respond the same).
Masking - answer✔Helps to decrease the salience, or the importance, of the stimulus. Occurs
when one stimulus or variable blocks the individual from responding to the intended stimulus.
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