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Verbal Behavior - Final Review - ABA 520
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A discriminative stimulus is:
Ans: a stimulus in the presence of which a response will be reinforced.
Quiz A stimulus delta is:
Ans: a stimulus in the presence of which a response will not be reinforced
Quiz Operant stimulus control has been achieved when:
Ans: A response occurs more frequently in the presence of a specific stimulus, but
rarely occurs in the absence of the stimulus
Quiz Stimulus generalization has occurred when:
Ans: The same response occurs in the presence of two different, but similar, stimuli
Quiz Concept formation:
Ans: Requires both stimulus discrimination across different classes and stimulus
generalization within a class.
Quiz Which of the following would be included in the feature stimulus class for ducks:
-All animals
-Webbed feet
-All birds
-Beaks
, Ans: Webbed feet
Quiz Stimuli in an arbitrary stimulus class:
Ans: Do not share similar stimulus features.
Quiz Stimulus equivalence:
Ans: Means that a person responds accurately to untrained and non-reinforced
stimulus-stimulus relations following training on different stimulus-stimulus relations.
Quiz The critical test for stimulus equivalence is:
Ans: Transitivity
Quiz Stimulus salience:
Ans: - Can affect the development of stimulus control.
- Refers to the prominence of the stimulus in the person's environment.
- Can depend on the sensory capabilities of the learner.
Quiz Which of the following constitutes a prompt?
Ans: Physically helping an individual perform a task
Quiz Which of the following is a stimulus prompt?
Ans: After closing the lid, Mary turns the dial to the correct cycle. Prior to the
training session, Ashley painted a red arrow to the correct setting to help Mary
remember where to set the dial. Mary successful sets the dial to the correct setting
without any additional assistance.
Quiz Which of the following is an example of stimulus fading?
Ans: Printing a child's name on a piece of paper and having him trace his name.
Over time, slowly remove one letter of his name, thus requiring him to trace the first
letters but to print the last letters himself.
Quiz Which of the following is NOT associated effects of extinction?
Ans: stable responding
Quiz _______________ is a technical term used to identify the procedure of
withholding reinforcers that maintain behavior.
Ans: extinction
Quiz Which of the following statements is NOT a common misuse of the term
extinction?