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EDF 6223 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
guidelines for using the high-p sequence - ANS ✓compliance with high-p
instructions should be 80% or greater; with low-p, 50% or less; don't use the
high-p request sequence after an occurrence with problem behavior; present the
high-p requests at the beginning and throughout the instructional period to
reduce the possibility of problem behaviors producing reinforcement; present
high-p instructions rapidly, with brief intervals
what should the ratio of high-p to low-p instructions be when fading the
intervention? - ANS ✓1-to-1
functional communication training - ANS ✓establishes an appropriate
communicative behavior to compete with the problem behaviors evoked by a
MO. develops communicative behaviors that are sensitive to existing MOs. DRA is
used to teach an adaptive response that is functionally equivalent to the problem
behavior
FCT is an effective treatment for many problem behaviors maintained by ___
___ - ANS ✓social attention
effective use of FCT - ANS ✓dense schedule of reinforcement; decreased use of
verbal prompts; behavior reduction procedures
why is thinning the FCT reinforcement schedule with constant time
increases, proportional time increases, or session-to-session time increases
ineffective? - ANS ✓they are incompatible with the methods used to
differentially reinforce the alternative communicative behavior because the FCT
intervention doesn't alter the MO that evokes the problem behavior
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how do you thin an FCT schedule? - ANS ✓once the communicative response is
established, gradually thin the FI schedule. use clocks or picture cues to
announce when reinforcement is available
advantages of FCT - ANS ✓excellent chance for generalization and maintenance
of the alternative communicative response because the communicative response
often functions to recruit reinforcement from significant others; may have high
social validity
disadvantages of FCT - ANS ✓treatment packages usually include extinction,
which may produce undesirable effects; participants may emit inappropriately
high rates of the alternative communicative response; recruitments of
reinforcement can occur at inconvenient or impossible times for the caregiver
much of the misbehavior in children can be viewed as a form of - ANS
✓communication
what is the mechanism of behavior change that underlies the reduction of
problem behavior using FCT? - ANS ✓functional equivalence
what concept is central to the success of FCT? - ANS ✓recruiting natural
contingencies of reinforcement
3 major components of token economies - ANS ✓a list of target behaviors;
tokens, points, or marks participants earn for emitting the target behavior; and a
menu of backup reinforcers that participants obtain by exchanging earned tokens
how do token economies work? - ANS ✓the behaviors to be reinforced are
identified and defined --> a medium exchange (token) is selected --> participants
exchange earned tokens for backup reinforcers known or presumed to function
as reinforcers for participants
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EDF
EDF 6223 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
guidelines for using the high-p sequence - ANS ✓compliance with high-p
instructions should be 80% or greater; with low-p, 50% or less; don't use the
high-p request sequence after an occurrence with problem behavior; present the
high-p requests at the beginning and throughout the instructional period to
reduce the possibility of problem behaviors producing reinforcement; present
high-p instructions rapidly, with brief intervals
what should the ratio of high-p to low-p instructions be when fading the
intervention? - ANS ✓1-to-1
functional communication training - ANS ✓establishes an appropriate
communicative behavior to compete with the problem behaviors evoked by a
MO. develops communicative behaviors that are sensitive to existing MOs. DRA is
used to teach an adaptive response that is functionally equivalent to the problem
behavior
FCT is an effective treatment for many problem behaviors maintained by ___
___ - ANS ✓social attention
effective use of FCT - ANS ✓dense schedule of reinforcement; decreased use of
verbal prompts; behavior reduction procedures
why is thinning the FCT reinforcement schedule with constant time
increases, proportional time increases, or session-to-session time increases
ineffective? - ANS ✓they are incompatible with the methods used to
differentially reinforce the alternative communicative behavior because the FCT
intervention doesn't alter the MO that evokes the problem behavior
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how do you thin an FCT schedule? - ANS ✓once the communicative response is
established, gradually thin the FI schedule. use clocks or picture cues to
announce when reinforcement is available
advantages of FCT - ANS ✓excellent chance for generalization and maintenance
of the alternative communicative response because the communicative response
often functions to recruit reinforcement from significant others; may have high
social validity
disadvantages of FCT - ANS ✓treatment packages usually include extinction,
which may produce undesirable effects; participants may emit inappropriately
high rates of the alternative communicative response; recruitments of
reinforcement can occur at inconvenient or impossible times for the caregiver
much of the misbehavior in children can be viewed as a form of - ANS
✓communication
what is the mechanism of behavior change that underlies the reduction of
problem behavior using FCT? - ANS ✓functional equivalence
what concept is central to the success of FCT? - ANS ✓recruiting natural
contingencies of reinforcement
3 major components of token economies - ANS ✓a list of target behaviors;
tokens, points, or marks participants earn for emitting the target behavior; and a
menu of backup reinforcers that participants obtain by exchanging earned tokens
how do token economies work? - ANS ✓the behaviors to be reinforced are
identified and defined --> a medium exchange (token) is selected --> participants
exchange earned tokens for backup reinforcers known or presumed to function
as reinforcers for participants
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