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A teacher uses a group contingency with her students. She states the following rule: “If everyone gets 100% on their spelling test this week, I will turn cartwheels down the hall for you.” This is an example of a(n)

The extent to which a learner emits the target behavior in conditions that are different from those that were present during instruction is known as

Which behavior is likely to have the greatest resistance to extinction?

Functional communication training is an application of

A parent tells their children, “Anyone who earns all ‘A’s on his or her report card will get $50 at the end of the semester.” This is an example of a(n)

You are teaching a large group of students who are disrupting class by talking out of turn, laughing, and throwing things at each other. You want to improve their behavior, so you decide to implement a DRA intervention. To do this, you will reinforce

Self-management is best defined as the personal application of behavior change tactics

Antecedent based self-management tactics include

The total environment where instruction occurs, including any aspects of the environment, planned or unplanned, that may influence the learner’s acquisition and generalization of the target behavior is referred to as the generalization setting.

Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of Michael’s head hitting. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing self-injury would be