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1. Basic functions of behavior include all of the following EXCEPT ___________.
Escape
Attention
Access to tangible items
Reinforcement
2. Juan is presented with an academic task. He stands up and begins knocking over his chair and throwing items within his reach. He is sent to the principle's office. The next time he is presented with an academic task he begins throwing items from his desk and overturning his chair. Based on this information, what do you assess the function of the problem behaviors to be?
A lack of instructional control
Attention
Escape
Juan hates math!
3. The functional assessment interview asks questions to identify if the client has functional alternatives in their repertoire. The word repertoire refers to
The various ways in which the individual builds rapport with others.
All of the physical items the person has that can be used as reinforcers
All of the behaviors that a person has emitted in the past and is able to perform.
All of the types of treatments that have been tried to help the person in the past.
4. All of the following tools can be part of conducting a functional behavior assessment except____________:
Functional assessment interview
An ABC analysis
Beck Depression Inventory
MAS and FAST
5. A reason for creating good topographical definitions that are unambiguous and do not include unobservable terms is:
So Professor Richardson does not find out. That would be embarrassing!
To facilitate consistency among different people collecting data on the behavior.
To determine the function of the behavior.
To identify the maintaining variables of the behavior.
6. All of the following are dimensions of behavior that you can collect data on as part of an assessment EXCEPT __________.
Topography
Latency
Frequency
Analytic
7. A mand starts with ________ and ends with ______________
Satiation/spontaneous recovery
Deprivation/reinforcement
Positive reinforcement/negative reinforcement
A discriminative stimulus/A motivating operation
8. Pairing refers to all the following except:
Pairing a neutral stimulus with a conditioned aversive stimulus.
Creating an association between an already established reinforcer and yourself
Paring an activity or action that is aversive to a client with an established reinforcer
Creating an association between a primary reinforcer and yourself
9. The school cafeteria is crowded and noisy during lunch period. Toby frequently puts his hands over his ears. The function of this behavior is likely to be ___________.
Tangible items
Automatic reinforcement/sensory
Escape
Attention
10. A topographical definition should include
The function of the problem behavior
A physical description of what the behavior looks like when the client engages in it.
Antecedents to the problem behavior
Why the client engages in the behavior
11. When assessing mands, the assessor should assess the ability to mand for all the following EXCEPT.
Aversive stimuli
activities
Attention
Edibles
12. Julissa is assessing Ben's ability to mand. She provides Ben with a bowl of soup but no spoon. Julissa is _________.
Assessing frustration tolerance
Creating salience
Contriving a motivating operation (MO).
A forgetful person
13. Sonia hits her head with a closed fist when her one-on-one teaching assistant leaves her side to interact with another student. Usually, when Sonia does this, her teaching assistant returns to her side, asks her to stop hitting herself, and soothes her. She rarely engages in head hitting when her assistant works directly with her. What is the most likely function of Sonia's problem behavior?
Escape
Access to tangible items
Attention
Automatic reinforcement