When students escape from a task or environment by performing an inappropriate behavior that behavior is
likely to be maintained by:
a. positive reinforcement
b. negative reinforcement
c. extinction
d. punishment
Ques. 2The term behavior refers to both covert and overt responses.
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Ques. 3The same behavior exhibited by two different students may serve two different functions.
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Ques. 4Under the play condition of behavior, instances of inappropriate behavior is minimal or nonexistent for a
student.
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Ques. 5The function of inappropriate behavior represented in the demand condition is negative reinforcement.
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Ques. 6The roots of operant conditioning can be traced to the work of:
a. Skinner.
b. Thorndyke.
c. Watson.
d. Pavlov.
Ques. 7Direct observation strategies to gather information by taking data on the behavior while the student is engaged
in it is also known as informant assessment.
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Ques. 8An operant is:
a. An event that precedes a target behavior.
b. An involuntary or reflexive behavior.
c. A behavior or response that is controlled or at least influenced by events in the environment.
d. An event in the environment that follows a behavior(s).
Ques. 9Setting events refer to the climate within which the behavior and the contingency occur.
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