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Title: A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the students in her class. The children ...
Post by: brehndandouglas on Feb 26, 2018
A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the students in her class. The children receive stickers each time they complete an academic task, and when they have accumulated a certain number of stickers they can exchange them for 15 minutes of playing computer games. This program that uses conditioned reinforcers to strengthen a desirable behavior is referred to as:
 
  a. differential reinforcement
  b. respondent conditioning
 c. behavioral skills training
  d. a token economy



Question 2

Shaping can be used to develop a behavior, reinstate a(n) ______________ behavior or change some dimension of a(n) ______________ behavior.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with correct word



Question 3

What are the two possible functions served by the competing response?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



Question 4

A behavior that a person already exhibits that is an approximation to the target behavior is called ____________.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with correct word



Question 5

Provide an example of a competing behavior for hair-pulling.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



Question 6

Shaping is a behavioral procedure in which ______________ of a target behavior are ______________ until the person eventually engages in the target behavior.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


Title: A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the students in her class. The children ...
Post by: hakeem_td on Feb 26, 2018
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Title: A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the students in her class. The children ...
Post by: brehndandouglas on Feb 26, 2018
Passed my quiz with this!


Title: A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the students in her class. The children ...
Post by: hakeem_td on Feb 26, 2018
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