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SPED 571 final Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: Once an FBA has been completed, what strategic
approach(es) to intervention may be based upon it (select all that apply)?
Ans: - teaching alternative behaviors
- alternating antecedent variables
- alterning consequent variables
Question: Analog conditions are used in a functional analysis because
Ans: they allow the practitioner to better control the environmental variables that
may be related to the problem behavior.
Question: Conducting a descriptive functional behavior assessment may
involve (select all that apply)
Ans: -providing a narrative description of the problem behavior in the environment in
which it occurs.
-Continuous recording of the problem behavior in relation to naturally occurring
events.
-implementing a scatterplot.
Question: Appropriate functional alternatives to problem behavior
Ans: produce the same reinforcer for the individual.
Question: A default technology is
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Ans: the term used to refer to the interventions that individuals may resort to using
that are increasingly intrusive, coercive, and punishment-based.
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Sammy's biting. What would you conclude is the function of Sammy's
biting? Select all that apply
Ans: both social positive reinforcement and social negative reinforcement
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Brittany's eye poking. What would you conclude is probably the function
of Brittany's eye poking?
Ans: automatic reinforcement
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Michael's head hitting. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining
conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing self-
injury would be
Ans: noncontingent attention and learning to request attention.
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Laurie's mouthing of clothing and other inedible objects. Based on the
results so far, the next step you might take would be to
Ans: consider developing an intervention for automatically reinforced behavior.
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Tony's dropping to the floor. Based on your conclusions about its
maintaining conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in
reducing dropping would be
Ans: reducing task effort and teaching Tony to sign "Break" during non-preferred
activities.
Question: Assessment of the function of a behavior can yield useful
information with respect to intervention strategies that are likely to be
effective.
Ans: true
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Question: FBA methods can be classified into two types: 1) functional
analysis and 2) descriptive assessment.
Ans: false
Question: Behavior analysts may get interesting information from
descriptive and indirect assessments, but these do not provide a basis for
developing functional hypotheses.
Ans: false
Question: According to your text, the purpose of an FBA is to:
Ans: - weed out associated and irrelevant variables
- Identify and describe variables that are functionally related to the interfering
behavior.
Question: The process by which behavior is strengthened when it is
followed by a consequence is called:
Ans: Reinforcement
Question: Positive reinforcement refers to the _________ of a
consequence to strengthen behavior, while negative reinforcement refers
to the _________ of a consequence to strengthen behavior.
Ans: Presentation: Removal
Question: You are cold. You put on your warm sweater. In the future,
you put on the sweater more often when you feel cold. This is an
example of:
Ans: Individually Mediated Reinforcement
Question: Which of the following is an effect of a motivating operation?
Ans: Behavior that has been reinforced by a specific consequence temporarily
increases in frequency following a motivating operation
Question: A response class refers to a set of responses that are
topographically similar to one another.
SPED 571 final Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Question: Once an FBA has been completed, what strategic
approach(es) to intervention may be based upon it (select all that apply)?
Ans: - teaching alternative behaviors
- alternating antecedent variables
- alterning consequent variables
Question: Analog conditions are used in a functional analysis because
Ans: they allow the practitioner to better control the environmental variables that
may be related to the problem behavior.
Question: Conducting a descriptive functional behavior assessment may
involve (select all that apply)
Ans: -providing a narrative description of the problem behavior in the environment in
which it occurs.
-Continuous recording of the problem behavior in relation to naturally occurring
events.
-implementing a scatterplot.
Question: Appropriate functional alternatives to problem behavior
Ans: produce the same reinforcer for the individual.
Question: A default technology is
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Ans: the term used to refer to the interventions that individuals may resort to using
that are increasingly intrusive, coercive, and punishment-based.
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Sammy's biting. What would you conclude is the function of Sammy's
biting? Select all that apply
Ans: both social positive reinforcement and social negative reinforcement
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Brittany's eye poking. What would you conclude is probably the function
of Brittany's eye poking?
Ans: automatic reinforcement
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Michael's head hitting. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining
conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing self-
injury would be
Ans: noncontingent attention and learning to request attention.
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Laurie's mouthing of clothing and other inedible objects. Based on the
results so far, the next step you might take would be to
Ans: consider developing an intervention for automatically reinforced behavior.
Question: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Tony's dropping to the floor. Based on your conclusions about its
maintaining conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in
reducing dropping would be
Ans: reducing task effort and teaching Tony to sign "Break" during non-preferred
activities.
Question: Assessment of the function of a behavior can yield useful
information with respect to intervention strategies that are likely to be
effective.
Ans: true
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Question: FBA methods can be classified into two types: 1) functional
analysis and 2) descriptive assessment.
Ans: false
Question: Behavior analysts may get interesting information from
descriptive and indirect assessments, but these do not provide a basis for
developing functional hypotheses.
Ans: false
Question: According to your text, the purpose of an FBA is to:
Ans: - weed out associated and irrelevant variables
- Identify and describe variables that are functionally related to the interfering
behavior.
Question: The process by which behavior is strengthened when it is
followed by a consequence is called:
Ans: Reinforcement
Question: Positive reinforcement refers to the _________ of a
consequence to strengthen behavior, while negative reinforcement refers
to the _________ of a consequence to strengthen behavior.
Ans: Presentation: Removal
Question: You are cold. You put on your warm sweater. In the future,
you put on the sweater more often when you feel cold. This is an
example of:
Ans: Individually Mediated Reinforcement
Question: Which of the following is an effect of a motivating operation?
Ans: Behavior that has been reinforced by a specific consequence temporarily
increases in frequency following a motivating operation
Question: A response class refers to a set of responses that are
topographically similar to one another.
