Three of the following choices are involved in the process of identifying students who may have ...

Three of the following choices are involved in the process of identifying students who may have exceptionalities. Which one is not part of that process?
 
  a. Assessing students' performance in specific areas of the curriculum
  b. Documenting learning problems and attempts to solve them
  c. Assessing the extent to which students can perform everyday school tasks, such as completing assignments
  d. Implementing classroom management plans for students with behavior disorders

Ques. 2

In the application of operant conditioning, the events that immediately precede or induce behaviors are referred to as:
 
  a. punishers.
  b. consequences.
  c. reinforcers.
  d. antecedents.

Ques. 3

Social cognitive theory and behaviorism differ in their views of reinforcement and punishment. This difference is reflected in the fact that social cognitive theory:
 
  a. emphasizes the role of expectations in interpreting reinforcers and punishers.
  b. more strongly emphasizes reinforcers and tends to ignore punishers.
  c. more strongly emphasizes the direct effects of reinforcers on behavior.
  d. more strongly emphasizes the effects of different schedules of reinforcement on behavior.

Ques. 4

Social cognitive theory is best described as a view of learning that:
 
  a. emphasizes the social interactions that occur among students in classrooms.
  b. emphasizes the ways that students perceive and think about problems.
  c. emphasizes the strategies that students use to solve interpersonal problems.
  d. emphasizes the effects of observing others on students' thoughts and behavior.

Ques. 5

Describe four guidelines we can follow to help us use operant conditioning as a tool when we work with our students, and provide an example of each.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Ques. 6

Suppose that you have a student who is acting out in your class. Describe the steps you would follow in designing an applied behavior analysis plan to help the student learn to behave more acceptably.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Ques. 7

You are sitting in the workroom of your school with a faculty member who has just said, I got sick of the students' continually talking today, so I fixed them. I doubled their homework assignment. I had assigned the odd problems at the end of the section, and now they get to do all the problems.
  You comment courteously, I'm not sure that's a good idea.
  Why not? your colleague retorts. It stopped the talking.
  Using classical conditioning as a basis for your response, explain why using homework as a form of punishment is not a good idea.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Ques. 8

Operant conditioning is also involved in the case study. Carefully describe the operant conditioning component including an identification of the concepts involved.
 
  What will be an ideal response?