Ball State University

ABA 609

Quiz 4

1)In terms of behavior, choice is concerned with____________.

2. When the response is continuous rather than discrete, use a matching equation for      .

3. Behavioral economics involves the use of                                                                             .

4. From a behavior analysis standpoint, drug addiction is the product of

                               .

5. To investigate choice and preference, it is important that the organism be presented with          schedules of reinforcement.

6. As relative rate of reinforcement            , the relative rate of response    .

7. Delay discounting involves decisions between                                                                                and

                                rewards.

8. A rat placed in a chamber with two response levers, each operating on a variable-interval schedule and with one that pays off approximately 5 reinforcers per minute and a second that pays off approximately 10 reinforcers per minute, will most likely distribute its behavior as:

9. Using the matching relation, predict the distribution of responses between a key with a fixed-ratio 40 requirement and one with a fixed-ratio 60:

10. On a chain schedule of reinforcement, the longer the delay between the S^D and the unconditioned reinforcement:

11. According to Skinner (1953), a generalized conditioned reinforcer:

12. If you train a rat to receive a food pellet every time you play a particular song, the foo pellet is  and the tune is  .

13. Which of the following would reduce the effectiveness of a conditioned reinforcer?

14. Token economies are most effective at maintaining behavior after the treatment program ends when they:

15. In terms of generalized imitation, which of the following are true?

16. Rule-following is                                                                    regulated by                                        of reinforcement.

17. A child attempting to repeat sounds their parents make can be explained by:

18. In regards to imitation:

19. Behaviorally, we could define lying as lack of correspondence between:

20. For Skinner (1969), rules are:

21. Du and Greer (2014) found that 2- to 4-year old children with autism who failed to learn generalized imitation in face-to-face interactions were successful in establishing generalized imitation when:

22.                         introduced the term verbal behavior to deal with the

                                of the speaker.

23. When a verbal response depends on a verbal discriminative stimulus, the verbal relations are   .

24. If the picture of a dog, the spoken word of "dog," and the written

word dog all regulate the same behavior, we say that the stimulus classes are           .

25. Verbal behavior refers to:

26. In the realm of communication, Skinner:

27. Saying "This is a fat cat" to the spoken stimulus "This is a fat cat" is an example of a(n):

28. The logical statement "If a dog is a mammal and mammals have fur, then a dog must have fur" is an example of:

29. Which of the following is NOT one of the five categories of autoclitics discussed by Skinner: