Question 1
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You have been asked to assess and change a child’s disruptive behaviour *at school*. The teacher reports that he engages in the behaviour most during maths class. When is the best time to observe?
Question 2
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The research approach that looks at generating theories from carefully collected data is called...
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behaviour analysis.
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deduction.
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induction.
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the scientific method.
Question 3
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What can we say about this graph?
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The data show a decreasing trend.
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The data show an increasing trend.
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The data show positive behaviour change.
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The data show negative behaviour change.
Question 4
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Which of the following is accurate from the perspective of behaviour analysis?
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Positive means additive and negative means subtractive.
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Positive means good and negative means bad.
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Positive means in the desired direction and negative means contrary to the desired direction.
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Positive means reinforcing and negative means punishing.
Question 5
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Behaviour analysts look for causes of psychological behaviour in the...
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mind.
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behaver’s repertoire.
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DSM.
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environment.
Question 6
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The best reference for your scientific work is...
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Google Scholar.
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Wikipedia.
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your textbook.
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a peer-reviewed journal.
Question 7
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Behaviour can be defined as...
Question 8
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Which of the following is a principle?
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Shaping
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Reinforcement
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Chaining
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Discrimination Training
Question 9
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Which of the following is incorrect in regards to behaviour?
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The horde behaved like hungry hyenas.
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A combatant checked that the supplies were packed safely.
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A Healer observed an infected person and took notes.
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The General gave an order.
Question 10
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The use of visual analysis requires which of the following assumptions?
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That the data are accurate.
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That all variables (other than the independent variable) were held consistent across phases.
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That the baseline comes first followed by intervention.
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A and B.
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All of the above.
Question 11
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Visual analysis involves looking at the level, trend, and ______________ of the data.
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generality
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variability
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mean
Question 12
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A common assumption in social science is that variability is ____________ to the individual.
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intrinsic
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uncontrollable
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extrinsic
Question 13
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_______________ are tentative statements for which further support is sought.
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theories
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hypotheses
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hypothetico-deductions
Question 14
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Behaviour analysis ______________ ‘off-the-shelf’ designs for particular research questions.
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does not have
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deductively use
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uses
Question 15
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_____________ of behaviour describes a functional relation between behaviour and controlling variables.
Question 16
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Inductive approaches involve __________________________________.
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giving prominence to hypothesis testing
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giving prominence to theory rather than data
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giving prominence to data rather than theory
Question 17
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Dissimilarity of scores in an experimental condition is called __________.
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trend
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variability
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stability
Question 18
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When changes in behaviour result from the intervention are meaningful and useful, they are ____________________.
Question 19
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A / an __________________ is a brief but specific statement of what the researcher wants to learn from conducting the experiment.
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induction
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hypothesis
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experimental question
Question 20
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Beginning with a measure of an individual’s behaviour against which an independent variable is measured is called _________________________.
Question 21
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In his book The Behavior of Organisms (1938) Skinner described a science called the ________________________ of behaviour.
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experimental analysis
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applied analysis
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behavioural analysis
Question 22
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________________ is antithetical to determinism, which specifies that behaviour is lawful.
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Empiricism
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Mentalism
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Accidentalism
Question 23
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Radical behaviourism does not ignore thoughts and feelings, but treats them like other operant behaviours and calls them _____________________.
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emotive behaviour
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private events
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private occurrences
Question 24
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_____________________ are circular arguments that do not help to explain behaviour.
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Parsimonious fictions
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Fictitious explanations
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Explanatory fictions
Question 25
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The principle that conclusions drawn from scientific manipulation are tentative is that of __________________.
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philosophic doubt
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scientific doubt
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empiricism
Question 26
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A behaviour analyst may use _________________________________.
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discrete trial teaching as the main approach
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discrete trial teaching, but only for children with autism
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some discrete trial teaching
Question 27
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_____________________ refers to a variety of techniques designed to reduce the stimulation directly produced by a response.
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Planned ignoring
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Sensory extinction
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Escape extinction
Question 28
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Allen et al. (2013) found that the presence of manic episode in a woman with schizoaffective disorder and an intellectual disability made challenging behaviour sensitive to attention. This indicated that her challenging behaviour was likely maintained by ______________________.
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negative reinforcement
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positive punishment
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positive reinforcement
Question 29
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Escape extinction is __________________ for behaviours maintained by social attention.
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irrelevant
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recommended
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contraindicated
Question 30
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Holtyn et al. (2014) used negative reinforcement to increase drug abstinence by introducing a _________________ contingent on an employee producing a urine sample showing drug use.
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pay rise
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base pay rest
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token economy
Question 31
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The experimental analysis of behaviour as defined by Skinner, involves:
Question 32
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The smell of live flesh makes the Infecteds’ eyes dilate like a shark’s do. The smell of live flesh is a / an:
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Unconditioned stimulus
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Conditioned stimulus
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Unconditioned response
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Neutral stimulus
Question 33
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The Healers turn the lights to red when they enter the quarantine area where the Infected are being rehabilitated. When the lights go red, the Infecteds’ eyes dilate. The lights are now a / an:
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Unconditioned stimulus
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Conditioned stimulus
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Unconditioned response
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Neutral stimulus
Question 34
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The Infecteds’ eyes dilating can be an example of a / an:
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Unconditioned response
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Conditioned response
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Neutral response
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A and B
Question 35
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The dimension of applied behaviour analysis ‘generality’ refers to:
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Behaviour change being meaningful
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Behaviour change persisting across time
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Behaviour change persisting across time and across settings
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Behaviour change methods are described in detail
Question 36
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We can train dogs to sniff out Infected that are hiding in wooded areas. If we say that the dogs do this because we reinforce their behaviour rather than because the dogs’ ids have an internal desire to hunt the Infected, we are being:
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deterministic
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philosophically doubtful
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empirical
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parsimonious
Question 37
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‘The Infected can hunt people because they are intelligent’ is:
Question 38
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How are reinforcement and bribery different?
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Bribery doesn’t work
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Reinforcement doesn’t work
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Bribery precedes behaviour and benefits the briber, reinforcement follows behaviour and is intended to benefit the learner
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Reinforcement follows behaviour and benefits the person reinforcing the behaviour, bribery precedes a behaviour and benefits the briber
Question 39
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Removing reinforcement for a previously reinforced behaviour is:
Question 40
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Motivating operations...
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Permanently change the value of a reinforcer and frequency of behaviours previously reinforced by that reinforcer
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Momentarily change the value of a reinforcer and frequency of behaviours previously reinforced by that reinforcer
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deprivation
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the value of a punisher