Exam 16: Antecedent Control Procedures

TFAntecedent manipulation strategies are one of the more time consuming, effortful, and costly procedures to reduce the occurrence of a problem behavior.

TFExtinction is an antecedent control procedure.

TFIt is important to collect data before and after an antecedent manipulation procedure is used.

Antecedent control procedures involve the manipulation of:

When Matt goes to bed at night he is unable to fall asleep because he usually takes a nap in the evening.Matt stops taking naps so that he is able to get more sleep at night.Which antecedent control strategy is Matt using to increase his desired behavior of getting more sleep at night?

Increasing response effort will make a behavior ____________ likely to occur.

How are extinction, differential reinforcement and antecedent manipulations functional?

Nicole wants to increase the amount of exercise that she gets.Nicole purchases a treadmill so that she will not have to drive all the way across town to exercise at the health club.Having a treadmill in her home so that she exercises more often is an example of:

You are always finding excuses not to exercise.Identify 3 different steps you could take to increase your chances of exercising on a regular basis: How would you present the cues for exercising? How would you decrease response effort of exercising?How would you arrange an establishing operation for the outcome of exercising?

Presenting the Sᴰ, decreasing response effort, and presenting an establishing operation are ways to:

The manipulation of antecedent stimuli to increase the probability of desirable behavior and decrease the probability of competing behavior is referred to as:

To determine which antecedent control procedures to use in any given situation, it is helpful to understand the situation by analyzing the _______________________ related to both the problem behavior and competing behaviors.

Which of the following is NOT a functional approach to decrease problem behaviors?

Zach likes to sit in the back of the classroom so he can talk to his friend Elizabeth while the teacher is instructing.The teacher finds this behavior very disruptive.What would you do to eliminate the cues for Zach's talking behavior?

Presenting the Sᴰ for a behavior will make the behavior ____________ likely to occur.

Judy wants to keep her apartment clean on a regular basis, however, she is often watching TV, talking on the phone or going to parties.Therefore, her apartment usually remains unkempt.What are the competing behaviors for Judy cleaning her apartment? To make these competing behaviors less likely to occur:How would you remove the discriminative stimulus? How would you present an abolishing operation? How would you increase response effort?