MN551 REVIEWED QUESTIONS
AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Positive behavior support (PBS):
a. Includes systems-wide approaches
b. Is prescribed according to a published protocol
c. Involves frequent use of punishment
d. Is implemented by only one adult
a. Includes systems-wide approaches
Contingency methods of behavior management:
a. Involve withholding strategies
b. Include use of punishment
c. Include teaching new skills
d. Are the most effective known behavior management
strategy NOT
a. Involve withholding strategies
Positive behavior during transitions can be supported through:
a. Use of physical objects that represent the next activity
b. Verbal information offered to the entire classroom
c. Token economies
d. Building the child's expressive communication
e. Sharing control
a. Use of physical objects that represent the next activity
,All are general approaches an occupational therapist can take
to behavior management except?
a. Prevent challenging behavior NOT
b. Reward appropriate behavior
c. Support positive behavior
d. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
d. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
Six-year-old Peyton is participating in a small group session.
The group participants are waiting in line for turns on an
obstacle course. Peyton is unable to maintain a quiet body or
stay in line. She impulsively runs about the room and jumps
onto pillows or rolls on the floor. The therapist provides all
children with plastic pads that she calls their waiting spots.
She instructs the children to stay on their spots while waiting
for their turn. This strategy is an example of which of the
following?
a. Creating a calm atmosphere
b. Clarifying expectations
c. Attending to appropriate behaviors
d. Using "do" statements NOT
e. Matching demands to abilities
b. Clarifying expectations
Anthony is a fourth-grader in a typical classroom who
demonstrates frequent oppositional behaviors. He does not
have a diagnosis or receive special services. His teacher has
noted that he does not do his work whenever verbal
,instructions are given to the class. When she approaches to
offer assistance, he throws his work off his desk and yells at
her to leave him alone. The most appropriate first step in
developing an intervention plan to help Anthony is:
a. Implement classroom-wide positive behavior support
b. Clarify expectations
c. Implement an intervention aimed at improving self-
regulation
d. Introduce a token economy
e. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
e. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
Which statement is true regarding the functional behavioral
assessment?
a. It should be conducted immediately when a challenging
behavior first occurs.
b. It is loosely structured and allows each team member to
focus on whatever he or she wants.
c. It can be conducted quickly by a single service provider who
then shares the results with any other service providers
working with the child.
d. It is an intensive and critical first step in developing an
effective positive behavior support plan.
d. It is an intensive and critical first step in developing an
effective positive behavior support plan.
Which of the following have been established by research to
be motivators for challenging behavior?
, a. Avoid something
b. Cause pain to someone
c. Obtain something
d. Destroy something
e. a and c
e. a and c
Maintaining regularity in the physical environment and in the
order of daily activities is an example of which of the following
strategies?
a. Creating a calm atmosphere
b. Keeping perspective
c. Minimizing aversive events
d. Establishing predictability and consistency
e. Sharing control
d. Establishing predictability and consistency
Some common reasons that children exhibit challenging
behaviors include:
a. Pain or illness
b. Effective communication skills
c. Poor self-regulation
d. a and c
e. All of the above
d. a and c
In a children's social skills group, strategies that allow the
participants to make as many choices as possible to satisfy
AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Positive behavior support (PBS):
a. Includes systems-wide approaches
b. Is prescribed according to a published protocol
c. Involves frequent use of punishment
d. Is implemented by only one adult
a. Includes systems-wide approaches
Contingency methods of behavior management:
a. Involve withholding strategies
b. Include use of punishment
c. Include teaching new skills
d. Are the most effective known behavior management
strategy NOT
a. Involve withholding strategies
Positive behavior during transitions can be supported through:
a. Use of physical objects that represent the next activity
b. Verbal information offered to the entire classroom
c. Token economies
d. Building the child's expressive communication
e. Sharing control
a. Use of physical objects that represent the next activity
,All are general approaches an occupational therapist can take
to behavior management except?
a. Prevent challenging behavior NOT
b. Reward appropriate behavior
c. Support positive behavior
d. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
d. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
Six-year-old Peyton is participating in a small group session.
The group participants are waiting in line for turns on an
obstacle course. Peyton is unable to maintain a quiet body or
stay in line. She impulsively runs about the room and jumps
onto pillows or rolls on the floor. The therapist provides all
children with plastic pads that she calls their waiting spots.
She instructs the children to stay on their spots while waiting
for their turn. This strategy is an example of which of the
following?
a. Creating a calm atmosphere
b. Clarifying expectations
c. Attending to appropriate behaviors
d. Using "do" statements NOT
e. Matching demands to abilities
b. Clarifying expectations
Anthony is a fourth-grader in a typical classroom who
demonstrates frequent oppositional behaviors. He does not
have a diagnosis or receive special services. His teacher has
noted that he does not do his work whenever verbal
,instructions are given to the class. When she approaches to
offer assistance, he throws his work off his desk and yells at
her to leave him alone. The most appropriate first step in
developing an intervention plan to help Anthony is:
a. Implement classroom-wide positive behavior support
b. Clarify expectations
c. Implement an intervention aimed at improving self-
regulation
d. Introduce a token economy
e. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
e. Conduct a functional behavioral assessment
Which statement is true regarding the functional behavioral
assessment?
a. It should be conducted immediately when a challenging
behavior first occurs.
b. It is loosely structured and allows each team member to
focus on whatever he or she wants.
c. It can be conducted quickly by a single service provider who
then shares the results with any other service providers
working with the child.
d. It is an intensive and critical first step in developing an
effective positive behavior support plan.
d. It is an intensive and critical first step in developing an
effective positive behavior support plan.
Which of the following have been established by research to
be motivators for challenging behavior?
, a. Avoid something
b. Cause pain to someone
c. Obtain something
d. Destroy something
e. a and c
e. a and c
Maintaining regularity in the physical environment and in the
order of daily activities is an example of which of the following
strategies?
a. Creating a calm atmosphere
b. Keeping perspective
c. Minimizing aversive events
d. Establishing predictability and consistency
e. Sharing control
d. Establishing predictability and consistency
Some common reasons that children exhibit challenging
behaviors include:
a. Pain or illness
b. Effective communication skills
c. Poor self-regulation
d. a and c
e. All of the above
d. a and c
In a children's social skills group, strategies that allow the
participants to make as many choices as possible to satisfy
