Pregunta 1
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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
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Mode
Pregunta 2
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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
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Covert
Pregunta 3
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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
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ABA
Pregunta 4
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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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Uses
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Deductively uses
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Sparingly uses
Pregunta 5
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A ________ of behaviour describes a functional relation between behaviour and controlling variables.
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Tactic
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Theory
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Principle
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Hypothesis
Pregunta 6
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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
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giving prominence to experimental behaviour analysis
Pregunta 7
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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
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A non-parametric test
Pregunta 8
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When changes in behaviour result from the intervention are meaningful and useful, they are _____________.
Pregunta 9
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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
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abstract
Pregunta 10
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Beginning with a measure of an individual’s behaviour against which an independent variable is measured is
called ___________.
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establishing a baseline
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developing a hypothesis
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measuring trend
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measuring variability
Pregunta 11
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In his book The Behavior of Organisms (1938) Skinner described a science called the ______________.
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experimental analysis
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applied analysis
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behavioural analysis
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ABA reversal design
Pregunta 12
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______________ is antithetical to determinism, which specifies that behaviour is lawful.
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Accidentalism
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Empiricism
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Mentalism
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Materialism
Pregunta 13
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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 behaviours
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private events
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private occurrences
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emotive feelings
Pregunta 14
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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
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Facts
Pregunta 15
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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
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subjective opinion
Pregunta 16
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A behaviour analyst may use some _______________________.
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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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discrete trial teaching.
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biased opinion
Pregunta 17
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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
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Shaping
Pregunta 18
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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 ____________.
Respuesta
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negative reinforcement
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positive punishment
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positive reinforcement
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negative punishment
Pregunta 19
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Escape extinction is ___________ for behaviours maintained by social attention.
Respuesta
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irrelevent
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recommended
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contraindicated
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highly recommended
Pregunta 20
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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.
Respuesta
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token econonomy
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base pay reset
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pay rise
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sectioning
Pregunta 21
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A cumulative record shows the pattern of responding _______ sessions.
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across
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within
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outside
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dependent on
Pregunta 22
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Under a fixed-time schedule, reinforcers are delivered __________ behaviour.
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Irrespective of
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contingent on
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after a
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before a
Pregunta 23
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A ________ schedule is an example of a complex schedule of reinforcement.
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Variable interval
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Feedback
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tandem
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Fixed ratio
Pregunta 24
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The pattern of responding under a fixed-ratio schedule involves a post-reinforcement pause and a series of
reinforcers; a pattern which is called ______________.
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Pause-and-respond
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scallop
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break-and-run
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time-out
Pregunta 25
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A ratio schedule requires a specified number of ___________ since the last reinforcer for the next reinforcer to
be obtained.
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stimuli
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seconds
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reponses
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minutes
Pregunta 26
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Schedule thinning often involves moving from a continuous schedule of reinforcement to an __________ schedule of reinforcement.
Respuesta
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intermittent
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indirect
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independent
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complex
Pregunta 27
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Sometimes, humans are less sensitive to schedules than animals because of instructional control. Instructional
control describes how _____________ interferes with the schedule.
Respuesta
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verbal behaviour
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stimulus control
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motivating operations
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copulation
Pregunta 28
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One of the limitations of the research on schedules is that a large proportion of it has been conducted using ______________.
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positive reinforcement
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negative reinforcement
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positive punishment
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negative punishment
Pregunta 29
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Grow et al. (2010) interspersed periods of staff availability with unavailability to put excessive social
behaviours of a man with intellectual disabilities under stimulus control. The two schedules (availability and
unavailability) were a multiple schedule because they ____________________.
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were simultaneous and had discriminative stimuli
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were successive and had discriminative stimuli
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were simultaneous and had no discriminative stimuli
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involved reinforcement
Pregunta 30
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Saunders et al. (2005) showed that showing their participants how pieces of paper they had to shred to earn
reinforcers under a fixed ratio schedule made the schedule more effective. This is an example of a ___________________.
Respuesta
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Post-reinforcement pause
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Fixed time schedule
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discriminative stimulus
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punishment
Pregunta 31
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Reinforcement available for responding outside of schedules in the matching law (Re) is called _______________.
Pregunta 32
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In a concurrent schedule, two or more schedules are available at the same time, and they are ______________ .
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dependent
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interdependent
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independent
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intradependent
Pregunta 33
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Matching law analyses usually use ______ schedules as they produce a high, stable rate of responding.
Pregunta 34
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_______________ response effort on an alternative will result in an increase in responding on that alternative.
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Decreasing
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Increasing
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Not changing
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Maximising
Pregunta 35
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In Herrnstein's (1971) matching law equation, B and R represent _____________________________________ respectively.
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behaviour emitted and reinforcers obtained
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behaviour emitted and reinforcers available
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behaviour obtained and reinforcers available
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behaviour obtained and reinforcers obtained
Pregunta 36
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The allocation of responses to alternatives in a matching analysis is the _________ response ratio
Respuesta
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absolute
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relative
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independent
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reverse
Pregunta 37
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Applied situations can often be analysed as ________________________.
Respuesta
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concurrent reinforcement schedules
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nonconcurrent reinforcement schedules
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mixed reinforcement schedules
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Stimulus control
Pregunta 38
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The opportunity to choose is effective for increasing appropriate behaviour, however it is difficult to tell
whether this is because of the reinforcing effects of making a choice, or that making a choice provided
access to more reinforcing outcomes. This is called the _____________________________.
Pregunta 39
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Borrero et al. (2007) showed that social interactions were aimed at people in a conversation based on how much
reinforcement they provided for interactions (i.e., matching). This finding could be used in a classroom by
providing a __________________ for children who call out too often and the opposite for children who do not
participate enough.
Pregunta 40
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The opportunity to choose tasks, rather than being assigned tasks, might alter the value of escape (i.e.,
could be a / an __________________ for escape as a reinforcer).
Respuesta
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establishing operations
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abolishing operation
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concurrent schedule
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motivating operation
Pregunta 41
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Because it can be paired with a wide variety of other reinforcers, money is a _____________________.
Pregunta 42
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If you add a response cost to a token economy, you are adding a _____________________.
Respuesta
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Negative punisher
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Negative reinforcer
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Positive reinforcer
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Positive punisher
Pregunta 43
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______________________ involves using a tone as a conditioned reinforcer in recall ranching of fish.
Pregunta 44
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In a token economy, it is important to clearly explain and arrange how conditioned reinforcers will be ______________________.
Respuesta
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exchanged
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changed
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unconditioned
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conditioned
Pregunta 45
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A person's _________________ can account for variations in the stimuli that will serve as conditioned
reinforcers or punishers for that person.
Respuesta
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personality
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learning history
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motivation
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discriminative stimuli
Pregunta 46
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A potential mistake in setting up a token economy is to __________________.
Pregunta 47
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Protopopova and Wynne (2015) found that the behaviour of dogs in a shelter could be improved to increase their
chances of adoption. Under a differential reinforcement of other behaviour schedule (DRO), reinforcers are
presented ____________________.
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at fixed times but only if the undesirable behaviour is not occurring
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contingent on desirable behaviour
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contingent on undesirable behaviour
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regardless of their behaviour (FI)
Pregunta 48
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TAGTEACH, which involves a clicker as a conditioned reinforcer for human behaviour, is called __________________.
Pregunta 49
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The difference between clicker training in animals and TAGTEACH is __________________________________________________________ .
Respuesta
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there is no explicit pairing of the sound with a primary reinforcer in TAGTEACH
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there is no backup reinforcer in TAGTEACH
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clicker training in animals is more effective
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TAGTEACH uses a token economy whereby clicker training does not
Pregunta 50
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A conditioned reinforcer is also called a _____________________.
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primary reinforcer
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pairing reinforcer
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secondary reinforcer
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Token Economy
Pregunta 51
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When superstitious behaviour occurs because of something in the environment, it is a Type 2 superstition.
Behaviour is under superstitious ______________ control.
Respuesta
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causal
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discriminitive
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reinforcer
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correlation
Pregunta 52
Pregunta
Skinner (1948) showed each pigeon in his study engaged in a dominant superstitious response when he delivered
reinforcers on a __ schedule of reinforcement.
Pregunta 53
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Killeen (1978) showed that superstitious behaviour may not be a result of an inability to discriminate, but of _________ .
Respuesta
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chance
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bias
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contingency shaping
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fixed schedules
Pregunta 54
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Adventitious reinforcement is when a reinforcer __________ a behaviour but is not caused by it
Pregunta 55
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Superstitious behaviour drifts over time because small ______________ in the behaviour are reinforced and become
dominant
Respuesta
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consistencies
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variations
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motivations
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contingencies
Pregunta 56
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Rule-governed behaviour arises with instruction; it is ______________.
Pregunta 57
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The law of effect is a _______________ ; it’s about things happening close together in time.
Respuesta
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temporal law
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temperate law
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discriminative law
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fixed ratio schedule
Pregunta 58
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Supersitious behaviour is NOT _____________ .
Pregunta 59
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Wager and Morris (1978) found that when a clown dispensed marbles on a fixed-time schedule, children developed
superstitious behaviour that was characteristic of scalloped responding under a _____________ schedule.
Respuesta
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Fixed-ratio
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Fixed-interval
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Variable-ratio
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Variable-interval
Pregunta 60
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A behaviour analytic account of values is that ________________________ .
Pregunta 61
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To facilitate generalisation to the real-world setting when teaching someone to order at McDonalds, you might
use a real McDonalds menu during training. This is called _______________ .
Respuesta
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multiple exemplar training
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discrimination training
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incorporating common stimuli
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naturally-occuring stimuli
Pregunta 62
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A prominent stimulus in the environment can be called _________ .
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salient
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generalisable
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discrete
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Insignificant
Pregunta 63
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The occurrence of behaviour in untrained settings is ___________.
Pregunta 64
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Untrained behaviours that are _______________ to the behaviour that was trained appear under response
generalisation.
Pregunta 65
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Training can be said to be effective when behaviour comes under the control of ___________________________.
Pregunta 66
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Discrimination is when different stimuli ________________________________.
Pregunta 67
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A generalisation gradient shows how much responding occurs as a dimension of the _________________ varies (e.g., colour).
Respuesta
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reinforcer
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discriminative stimulus
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behaviour
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stimuli
Pregunta 68
Pregunta
Lalli et al. (1998) found that the probability of self-injurious behaviour varied based on how close the
therapist stood to the child. They were able to plot a generalisation gradient and the discriminative stimulus
was __________________.
Respuesta
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the child
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the therapist
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attention
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the classroom
Pregunta 69
Pregunta
Guttman and Kalish (1956) showed that pigeons' responding to keys that were a slightly different colour to the
training key colour made a generalisation gradient. The shape of this gradient was ______________________________ .
Respuesta
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a peak in the middle at the training key colour, with fewer and fewer responses the further away the colour was from the training colour.
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more responding to shades of yellow, with no peak
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a dip in responses at the training colour, with more responding to other colours
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a bell-curve
Pregunta 70
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When you make a generalisation gradient, you plot the ___________________________________ x- and y-axes, respectively.
Respuesta
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dimension of the discriminative stimulus and number of responses
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number of responses and dimension of the discriminative stimulus
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number of responses and reinforcers
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data points
Pregunta 71
Pregunta
The consequence of another person terminating an aversive task, interaction, or activity contingent on a
behaviour is ______________________.
Respuesta
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Social positive reinforcement
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Social negative reinforcement
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Social negative punishment
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Social positive punishment
Pregunta 72
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Automatic reinforcement occurs when _____________________.
Respuesta
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behaviour is followed by a conditioned reinforcer
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behaviour is followed by praise
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behaviour provides stimulation
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contingencies are met
Pregunta 73
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Indirect methods as also called ______________ because they involve gathering information from people in
the environment.
Respuesta
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direct observation
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descriptive methods
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informant methods
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covert attention
Pregunta 74
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A _______________ involves manipulating antecedents or consequences to determine their effect on
behaviour.
Respuesta
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functional analysis
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scatterplot
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direct observation
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simple regression
Pregunta 75
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In a functional analysis, function is indicated in the condition with the _________________.
Respuesta
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the lowest rate of responding
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the highest rate of responding
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an average rate of responding
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generalisation of the behaviour
Pregunta 76
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Behaviour change as a result of a specific change in the environment as part of a procedure shows a _____________________.
Respuesta
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topography of behaviour
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functional relation
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purposeful behaviour
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generalised behaviour
Pregunta 77
Pregunta
Sharp et al. (2012) showed that liquid rescheduling was effective in decreasing rumination (repetitive
regurgitation and re-swallowing of food). Liquid rescheduling is ___________________.
Respuesta
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An antecedent intervention
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An intervention for behaviours maintained by escape
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A reinforcer
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A punisher (Frank Castle)
Pregunta 78
Pregunta
Dozier et al. (2011) arranged their functional analysis conditions to reflect the ______________________
of a man's inappropriate sexual behaviour involving feet and shoes. This helped them identify antecedents.
Pregunta 79
Pregunta
Scratching a poison ivy rash is an example of _______________________ . A functionally-equivalent
response would be to put calamine lotion on it.
Respuesta
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Automatic negative reinforcement
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Automatic positive reinforcement
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Social negative reinforcement
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Social positive reinforcement
Pregunta 80
Pregunta
Tangible reinforcement is also called _______________.
Respuesta
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escape
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social positive reinforcement
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automatic positive reinforcement
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automatic negative reinforcement
Pregunta 81
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Explaining animal behaviour in terms of human motives is _______________________.
Respuesta
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problem solving
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functional equivalence
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an anthropomorphism
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preposterous
Pregunta 82
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Novel behaviours can arise from trial-and-error, stimulus generalisation, and _____________________.
Respuesta
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imitation
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response generalisation
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problem solving
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shaping
Pregunta 83
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A dog looking 'guilty' could be negatively reinforced because _______________________.
Respuesta
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it results in being petted
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it results in the scolding stopping
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it results in being forgiven
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the dog actually feels guilty
Pregunta 84
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When Epstein's pigeons were placed in the problem solving situation there was ________________________________________.
Respuesta
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imitation of previous responses
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shaping of behaviour
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an initial conflict between responses
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great cognitions within the pigeons
Pregunta 85
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Keeping the Russian anti-tank dogs hungry created _____________________________.
Pregunta 86
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Performing novel behaviours in a situation that you've never been in before to produce certain consequences is __________.
Respuesta
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trial and error
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problem solving
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anthropomorphising
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looking like a fool
Pregunta 87
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The purpose of conducting a preference assessment for dogs such as in Vicars et al. (2014) is to identify
stimuli that might serve as ____________________.
Respuesta
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reinforcers
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motivating operations
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punishers
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abolishing operations
Pregunta 88
Pregunta
Vicars et al. (2014) used a paired stimulus preference assessment for dogs. This involved presenting pairs of
stimuli from which the dogs could choose, an approach based on _____________________.
Respuesta
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Supersitious behaviour
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Stimulus control
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the matching law
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previous research
Pregunta 89
Pregunta
Martin et al. (2011) conducted a functional analysis on a chimpanzee's faeces throwing behaviour. They found
that the chimpanzee was engaging in this behaviour ____________________________.
Respuesta
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Because it was angry
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Because it was being punished
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Because it received reinforcers for doing so
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because it wanted to be a major league baseball player
Pregunta 90
Pregunta
Improving the quality of life of animals in captivity would NOT include ________________________to manage
difficult behaviour.
Pregunta 91
Pregunta
Criminal profiling is a process by which evidence (particularly that found at a crime scene) is analysed to
determine ______________ offender characteristics.
Respuesta
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probable
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personality
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with certainty
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deep
Pregunta 92
Pregunta
Kocsis, Hayes, and Irwin (2002) found the _______________ was not a factor in the accuracy of profiling.
Respuesta
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gender
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age
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experience
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genetics
Pregunta 93
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______________ assumes that offenders engaging in similar behaviours will display similar characteristics.
Respuesta
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Homology
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Behaviourism
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Empiricism
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Hetrology
Pregunta 94
Pregunta
Ferguson (2013) suggested that there are only five relevant offender characteristics in a profile - motive,
special skills or knowledge of methods and materials, relationship to the victim, __________________ and criminal skill or forensic awareness.
Pregunta 95
Pregunta
One of the challenges is behaviour analysis of criminal behaviour is that often, the behaviours are _________.
Respuesta
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not measurable
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internal
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covert
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overt
Pregunta 96
Pregunta
A challenge in teaching incarcerated offenders new behaviours whilst they are in prison is ______________.
Respuesta
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They don’t want to change
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generalisation to outside settings
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there is no evidence that it works
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extensively researched and completely effective
Pregunta 97
Pregunta
Being sent to prison after committing a crime could be a ___________________.
Respuesta
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Delayed punisher
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Punisher with good temporal contiguity
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Discriminative stimulus for crime
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an ineffective means of teaching someone a lesson. Bring back public execution! :D
Pregunta 98
Pregunta
Committing crimes can be on _______________ schedule of reinforcement – sometimes you don’t get caught
Respuesta
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a continuous
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no
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intermittent
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fixed interval
Pregunta 99
Pregunta
Schnelle et al. (1978) found that adding a helicopter decreased burglaries and the cash benefits outweighed
the cost of the helicopter. The helicopter was most likely a ___________________________.
Pregunta 100
Pregunta
Bassett and Blanchard (1977) found that the number of behaviours punished and the frequency of punishment
increased when a prison token economy was unsupervised. This could have been because implementing punishment
was a _____________ for the behaviour of the guards running the token economy.
Pregunta 101
Pregunta
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?
Pregunta 102
Pregunta
The research approach that looks at generating theories from carefully collected data is called...
Respuesta
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behaviour analysis.
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deduction.
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induction.
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the scientific method.
Pregunta 103
Pregunta
Which of the following is accurate from the perspective of behaviour analysis?
Respuesta
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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
Pregunta 104
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Behaviour analysts look for causes of psychological behaviour in the...
Respuesta
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mind.
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behaver’s repertoire.
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DSM.
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environment
Pregunta 105
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Behaviour can be defined as...
Pregunta 106
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Which of the following is a principle?
Respuesta
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Shaping
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Reinforcement
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Chaining
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Discrimination training
Pregunta 107
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The use of visual analysis requires which of the following assumptions?
Respuesta
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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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The data is accurate, and the variables are consistent
Pregunta 108
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The experimental analysis of behaviour as defined by Skinner, involves:
Pregunta 109
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The dimension of applied behaviour analysis ‘generality’ refers to...
Respuesta
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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
Pregunta 110
Pregunta
How are reinforcement and bribery different?
Respuesta
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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
Pregunta 111
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Removing reinforcement for a previously reinforced behaviour is....
Pregunta 112
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Motivating operations...
Respuesta
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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
Pregunta 113
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A schedule is defined as...
Respuesta
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A rule that describes a contingency.
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A type of reinforcer specific to that individual
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A visual system used to help children with autism manage transitions
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Reinforcing every instance of behaviour.
Pregunta 114
Pregunta
Which of the following schedules are intermittent?
Pregunta 115
Pregunta
How do behaviour analysts measure choice?
Respuesta
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Using Maslow’s theory of motivation
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Using concurrent schedules of reinforcement
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Using consecutive schedules of reinforcement
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D. None of the answers, behaviour analysts do not believe choice exists
Pregunta 116
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Which of the following ALL affect matching?
Respuesta
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Magnitude, delay, punishment, quality, and response effort
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Force, punishment, reinforcement, stimulus control, and motivation.
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Response effort, delay, time of day, individual differences, and inter-response time.
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Cumulative responses, aversive control, timing, quantity, and qualitative choice.
Pregunta 117
Respuesta
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is only determined by an individual’s genetic history
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can be used as a antecedent manipulation
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can be used as a consequence
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can be used as both a consequence, and an antecedent manipulation
Pregunta 118
Pregunta
In the matching law, what does Re represent?
Respuesta
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Extraneous reinforcement: that occurs outside of what we are measuring
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External reinforcement: outside the person
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External responses: what we can measure
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Extraneous reinforcement: that occurs within complex schedules
Pregunta 119
Pregunta
Choice responding to an alternative can be measured by...
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The number of responses only
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The discriminative stimulus
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The number of responses or time allocated
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The value of the schedule
Pregunta 120
Pregunta
What is the ‘take home message’ of the matching law in regards to explaining choice?
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Discriminative stimuli shape choices
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Responses match reinforcers
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Choice cannot be measured
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Preference is more important than choice
Pregunta 121
Pregunta
Timmy’s teacher sets up a token economy to teach him to participate during carpet time. She puts a sticker on his chart every time he puts his hand up to answer a question. At the end of the day she tells him how many stickers he achieved. Identify the problem with this system
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Timmy should only get a sticker if he answered the question correctly
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Stickers should never be used as tokens
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There is no backup reinforcer
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The teacher should not tell Timmy how many stickers he earned.
Pregunta 122
Pregunta
A token economy should always be introduced on a __ schedule and then changed to a ___ schedule of reinforcement
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CRF, denser
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CRF, thinner
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Thin, CRF
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Thin, denser
Pregunta 123
Pregunta
Which of the following is NOT a mistake when implementing a token economy?
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Negotiating the backup reinforcer part way through
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Maintaining a CRF schedule
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Not exchanging the token economy for a backup reinforcer
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Changing the backup reinforcer to something more reinforcing
Pregunta 124
Pregunta
Select the correct answer. Target training during animal husbandry…
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Punishes the animal for incorrect responses
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Is only useful for primates and exotic animals
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Increases animal interactions with humans
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Decreases animal interactions with humans
Pregunta 125
Pregunta
When should you not use shaping?
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To teach a new behaviour
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When you can tell or show someone how to engage in the target behaviour.
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To increase a previously-engaged in behaviour.
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D. To teach verbal behaviour.
Pregunta 126
Pregunta
What is the cause of superstitious behaviour?
Pregunta 127
Pregunta
Culture is transmitted...
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Through verbal behaviour alone
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Through rule-governed behaviour, contingency-shaped behaviour and imitation
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Only though contingency-shaped behaviour
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Genetically
Pregunta 128
Pregunta
When good events occurs, we tend to attribute the cause to ________ and when negative events occur, we tend to attribute the cause to _______.
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Ourselves, ourselves.
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The environment, ourselves
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Ourselves, the environment
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The environment, the environment
Pregunta 129
Respuesta
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The learner will get reinforcement for choosing the triangle
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Reinforcement is available
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This is a discriminate stimulus
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Extinction
Pregunta 130
Pregunta
Find the correct answer. In the original Epstein (1984) paper…
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Other pigeons trained only in one of the prerequisite skills could not solve the problem
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Jumping to peck at the banana was extinguished
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The box being under the banana was an SD for standing on it to peck
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All of the answers
Pregunta 131
Pregunta
What is generalisation?
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The occurrence of behaviour in the presence of stimuli that are similar in some way to the SD present during training
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an increase in the likelihood of a behaviour in the presence of a stimulus or setting as a result of being reinforced in the presence of a different stimulus or setting
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When a behaviour is influenced by reinforcement
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none of the answers
Pregunta 132
Pregunta
Interventions based on the ______________ of behaviour are more likely to be effective.
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topography
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function
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stimuli
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superstition
Pregunta 133
Pregunta
What is the principle of parsimony?
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All simple logical explanations should be ruled out experimentally before more complex explanations are considered.
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Should always go for the most complex explanation, as that is more scientific
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Simple explanations are usually wrong
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Should rule out foolish explanations