Exam 2: Board Certified Behavior Analyst

Tokens are generally referred to as:

Providing a complete description of one's procedures in a behavior analytic study of classroom management techniques is adhering to which dimensions of behavior analysis?

An experimenter examines the level of noise in a school bus full of children under the following conditions: baseline, rock music, baseline, classical music.  In this experiment, the dependent variable is:

You are working with a child on teaching swimming.  You teach the child to do the front crawl.  After a few weeks of teaching, the child is doing both the front crawl and also starts doing the breast stroke.  What has occurred?

A __________________ is derived from a descriptive analysis.

An experimenter examines the effects of three types of prompts on compliance in a developmentally disabled person.  In this experiment, what is the independent variable?

The decision to develop and implement a behavior intervention plan is not made unless:

Results of a functional assessment reveal that a child engages in hand-biting when she is in a room by herself.  The likely function of behavior is:

Manipulating a students chair in a classroom setting to avoid distraction fro the window is an example of a manipulation of a

Requiring a student who disrupts the class by throwing papers and tipping over chairs to clean the mess up and then clean the rest of the room by sweeping and cleaning desktops is a(n) __________________ procedure.

Which measure would probably be the best measure for crying?

Non-contingent reinforcement is this type of intervention:

A teacher uses a group contingency with her students.  She states the following rule: "If everyone gets 100% on their spelling test the week, I will turn cartwheels down the hall for you."  What type of group contingency is this?

A child is exhibiting tantrum behaviors.  You believe the tantrum is occurring for your attention.  You therefore ignore the tantrum until it ceases while continuing daily activities.  You note that the tantrums decrease over time.  This is an example of:

Which is the best definition of a behavior function?

Talking out in class results in a child losing a star on his star chart.  The loss of a star appears to be an attempt to implement a(n) __________________ procedure.

What best defines a discriminative stimulus?

The specific, or technical, name for the type of procedure used in the above question is:

In behavior analysis, the __________________ is usually __________________.

If the person gets back on task when he is touched, this is an example of: