What is the least restrictive level of time out?
a. reduction of response maintenance stimuli
b. contingent observation
c. planned ignoring
d. exclusion
[Ques. 2] Little Haley is placed in time-out. She behaves appropriately in time-out in order to get out as quickly as possible. In this situation, time out can be viewed as:
a. punishment
b. reinforcement
c. extinction
d. negative reinforcement
[Ques. 3] Little Marvin's talking out in class is maintained by the attention he receives from his peers. Ms. Rumple places Marvin in time out. If this intervention results in the withdrawal of the reinforcement Marvin obtained from his peers, then time out can be viewed as:
a. extinction
b. negative reinforcement
c. reinforcement
d. punishment
[Ques. 4] Mr. Cutlip placed Kevin in time out for hitting Paul. If Kevin's aggression subsequently decreases, then time out can be viewed as:
a. reinforcement
b. shaping
c. punishment
d. negative reinforcement
[Ques. 5] Who is credited with being one of the first people to use time-out in an educational context?
a. Freud
b. Skinner
c. Bandura
d. Itard
[Ques. 6] A teacher gave every student an envelope with five or more tickets in it. Students lost a ticket every time they engaged in one of three inappropriate behaviors. The remaining tickets were placed in a grab bag and mixed up. The teacher drew three or four tickets and the students whose names appear on the tickets won a reward. What type of intervention was the teacher using?
a. compliance matrix
b. time-delay
c. response cost lottery
d. bingo behavior
[Ques. 7] Which of the following steps should be followed when implementing a response cost?
a. the magnitude of the fine should be specified
b. fines should be imposed several hours after the misbehavior occurred
c. a student should lose more points than he earns
d. both a and b
e. all of the above
[Ques. 8] Why is it advantageous to use a bonus response cost?
a. because it can be paired with other more aversive forms of punishment
b. because it forces students to spend tokens they earned for engaging in appropriate behavior
c. because is makes it more desirable to use punishment rather than positively reinforcing students for engaging in appropriate behavior
d. because students don't lost points they have earned for engaging in appropriate behavior
[Ques. 9] What makes response cost a desirable system to use in the classroom?
a. it results in moderate to rapid decreases in behavior
b. it avoids direct confrontation with students
c. it is easily combined with other procedures
d. both a and c
e. all of the above
[Ques. 10] Which type of punishment in which the loss of a specific amount of reinforcement occurs contingent upon the performance of an inappropriate behavior?
a. habit reversal
b. response cost
c. contingent observation
d. time out
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