One focus of behavioral counseling is to
A) Learn to increase excesses
B) Learn to increase deficits
C) Learn to decrease excesses
D) Learn to live with deficits
Q. 2In evaluating an instrument's reliability, a counselor should:
A) always select the instrument with the highest reliability coefficients.
B) select instruments where coefficient alphas have been calculated.
C) consider how the instrument is going to be used.
D) never use an instrument where the reliability coefficient is less than 0.92
Q. 3Shaping involves children
A) Learning a way to mold different types of media
B) Learning a behavior by approximations of it
C) Learning how to influence others
D) Learning components of communication
Q. 4If an instrument requires some professional judgments in scoring, then the manual should also include information on:
A) interrater reliability.
B) corrections of the reliability coefficients using the Spearman-Brown formula.
C) both KR 20s and KR 21s.
D) test-retest reliability coefficients.
Q. 5A behavioral chain is
A) the arrangement of individual responses in a particular sequence
B) the arrangement of a group of individuals working toward a specific goal
C) the arrangement of a classroom by ability level
D) the arrangement of contingencies in a special order
Q. 6What is the most appropriate way to determine reliability with Likert scales, where different answers receive different weightings?
A) Test-retest
B) Spearman-Brown
C) Kuder-Richardson 20
D) Coefficient alpha (or Cronbach's Alpha)
Q. 7Currently behavioral counseling uses
A) Only covert processes
B) Only overt behaviors
C) Neither covert processes or overt behaviors
D) Both covert process and overt behaviors
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