When behavior therapists advise teachers to ignore a child's minor misbehavior and it will go away, they are counting on the process of
A) extinction.
B) modeling.
C) desensitization.
D) Aversion.
Q. 2A method for analyzing the relative difficulty of individual items for different racial or ethnic groups is __________.
A) Differential Item Functioning
B) Intercept Bias
C) Internal Structure Analysis
D) Item Discrimination Index
Q. 3A child who wears a rubber band around a wrist and snaps it each time she finds herself daydreaming instead of listening to the teacher is an example of
A) negative reinforcement.
B) extinction.
C) desensitization.
D) aversive conditioning.
Q. 4In evaluating an instrument for content bias, practitioners need to:
A) give the instrument to different groups and compare their performance.
B) examine the development procedures and steps taken to control for group differences.
C) examine the validity coefficients for different ethnic groups.
D) analyze the content of the instruments themselves to see if there are any problems.
Q. 5Changing the balance of positive and negative consequences requires selecting an appropriate
A) stimuli.
B) extinction.
C) schedule of reinforcement.
D) punishment.
Q. 6If an instrument is found to have content that is more familiar to one ethnic group as compared to another, then that instrument would have __________ bias.
A) intercept
B) group
C) content
D) criterion
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