Relias Test Questions and Answers | Detailed
Rationales and Full Explanations | Grade A+
1. Identify two consequences: -✓✓reinforcement and punishment
2. The field of Applied Behavior Analysis focuses on ______________ behavior. -
✓✓observable
3. What follows behavior? -✓✓consequences
4. Another way to conceptualize negative in negative reinforcement and negative
punishment is: -✓✓removal
Negative refers to the removal of a stimulus in regards to the consequence.
5. Jane rarely used her phone. Whenever her annoying coworker approaches her and
she is on the phone her coworker walks away. Now Jane is always talking on the
phone. What principle of behavior accounts for this increase? -✓✓negative
reinforcement
6. Reinforcement is any event that _________ behavior and _________ behavior. -
✓✓follows; increases
7. Who was the founder of modern behaviorism? -✓✓B.F. Skinner
8. When Kay talked to Nancy, she liked to complain about work. Nancy would listen and
try to cheer her up by talking with her. The more Nancy talked with Kay the more she
complained. By talking with Kay after she complained, Nancy used what principle? -
✓✓positive reinforcement
9. The definition of behavior is: -✓✓any observable movement of a living thing
1. Alyse didn't sing in music class often. One day, her teacher saw Alyse singing and
complimented her voice in front of the class. Alyse stopped singing in music class all
together. What principle did the music teacher use on Alyse's singing behavior? -
✓✓positive punishment
2. Motivating operations increase the relative value of a particular reinforcer and also
________. -✓✓Motivating operations increase the relative value of a particular
reinforcer and also increase the likelihood of any behavior that has produced that
reinforcer in the past.
, 3. Ratio Schedules are based on ______________ and interval schedules are based on
___________________. -✓✓number of responses, passage of time
4. Luke threw toys at his peers during free play. When the teacher caught him doing
this, she would take the toy that he threw and put it in a box that he couldn't access for
the rest of the day. His behavior decreased. This is an example of: -✓✓negative
punishment
5. Hilary has autism and she likes to push buttons on her toys over and over again.
After a while, to her parent's satisfaction, the batteries wore out of the toy. Hilary
stopped pushing the buttons on the toy. What decreased her behavior? -✓✓extinction
6. Jake yelled when he wanted music turned off and his parents would turn it off. One
day, his parents decided to ignore the yelling. Jake's yelling initially increased then
decreased over the next couple days as they continued to ignore. What occurred? -
✓✓extinction burst
His parents put his behavior of yelling on extinction by no longer providing the
reinforcement of turning the music off, but it initially increased before its eventual
decrease. This is known as an extinction burst.
7. __________________schedules of reinforcement are when only some of the
responses are reinforced. -✓✓Intermittent
8. Motivating Operations variables in the environment that alter the relative value of a
__________ at a particular time. -✓✓reinforcer
9. Joshua cracked jokes during the movies he watched in history class every week.
When he did this the teacher removed him from the class and had him sit in the library.
Joshua stopped cracking jokes during the movies. This is an example of -✓✓time out
10. What is not a variable of reinforcer effectiveness? -✓✓attractiveness
different types of prompts -✓✓physical, gestural, verbal
Generalization -✓✓client can demonstrate a skill across people, materials/stimuli and
settings
-use multiple stimuli for training, vary SDs to ensure client can respond to same
question asked in different ways, train different responses so the client can respond in
multiple ways, use many different people, variety of settings
chaining -✓✓we need to teach specific steps of a complex behavior (handwashing:
multiple steps)
total task chaining -✓✓prompt as needed for each step
Rationales and Full Explanations | Grade A+
1. Identify two consequences: -✓✓reinforcement and punishment
2. The field of Applied Behavior Analysis focuses on ______________ behavior. -
✓✓observable
3. What follows behavior? -✓✓consequences
4. Another way to conceptualize negative in negative reinforcement and negative
punishment is: -✓✓removal
Negative refers to the removal of a stimulus in regards to the consequence.
5. Jane rarely used her phone. Whenever her annoying coworker approaches her and
she is on the phone her coworker walks away. Now Jane is always talking on the
phone. What principle of behavior accounts for this increase? -✓✓negative
reinforcement
6. Reinforcement is any event that _________ behavior and _________ behavior. -
✓✓follows; increases
7. Who was the founder of modern behaviorism? -✓✓B.F. Skinner
8. When Kay talked to Nancy, she liked to complain about work. Nancy would listen and
try to cheer her up by talking with her. The more Nancy talked with Kay the more she
complained. By talking with Kay after she complained, Nancy used what principle? -
✓✓positive reinforcement
9. The definition of behavior is: -✓✓any observable movement of a living thing
1. Alyse didn't sing in music class often. One day, her teacher saw Alyse singing and
complimented her voice in front of the class. Alyse stopped singing in music class all
together. What principle did the music teacher use on Alyse's singing behavior? -
✓✓positive punishment
2. Motivating operations increase the relative value of a particular reinforcer and also
________. -✓✓Motivating operations increase the relative value of a particular
reinforcer and also increase the likelihood of any behavior that has produced that
reinforcer in the past.
, 3. Ratio Schedules are based on ______________ and interval schedules are based on
___________________. -✓✓number of responses, passage of time
4. Luke threw toys at his peers during free play. When the teacher caught him doing
this, she would take the toy that he threw and put it in a box that he couldn't access for
the rest of the day. His behavior decreased. This is an example of: -✓✓negative
punishment
5. Hilary has autism and she likes to push buttons on her toys over and over again.
After a while, to her parent's satisfaction, the batteries wore out of the toy. Hilary
stopped pushing the buttons on the toy. What decreased her behavior? -✓✓extinction
6. Jake yelled when he wanted music turned off and his parents would turn it off. One
day, his parents decided to ignore the yelling. Jake's yelling initially increased then
decreased over the next couple days as they continued to ignore. What occurred? -
✓✓extinction burst
His parents put his behavior of yelling on extinction by no longer providing the
reinforcement of turning the music off, but it initially increased before its eventual
decrease. This is known as an extinction burst.
7. __________________schedules of reinforcement are when only some of the
responses are reinforced. -✓✓Intermittent
8. Motivating Operations variables in the environment that alter the relative value of a
__________ at a particular time. -✓✓reinforcer
9. Joshua cracked jokes during the movies he watched in history class every week.
When he did this the teacher removed him from the class and had him sit in the library.
Joshua stopped cracking jokes during the movies. This is an example of -✓✓time out
10. What is not a variable of reinforcer effectiveness? -✓✓attractiveness
different types of prompts -✓✓physical, gestural, verbal
Generalization -✓✓client can demonstrate a skill across people, materials/stimuli and
settings
-use multiple stimuli for training, vary SDs to ensure client can respond to same
question asked in different ways, train different responses so the client can respond in
multiple ways, use many different people, variety of settings
chaining -✓✓we need to teach specific steps of a complex behavior (handwashing:
multiple steps)
total task chaining -✓✓prompt as needed for each step
