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Andrea, a 4-year-old nonverbal child, exhibits noncompliant behavior in the form of refusing to participate when asked to work on art activities at a table. You found that this is not a preferred activity and therefore, breaks from the task would be an effective reinforcer. Which of the following exemplifies an appropriate DRA procedure to use?

An adult client with a traumatic brain injury held and rubbed the hands of other people while talking with them. Since this was causing social problems, an extinction program was implemented where others would not speak or make eye contact while the client held or rubbed their hands. In the initial stages of the intervention, the client began to forcefully hold and rub the hands of others and grab people by the face to try to get them to make eye contact. These behaviors represent which secondary effect(s) of extinction?

A student is taught to select a quarter when the sample stimulus, $.25, is presented and to select $.25 when the sample stimulus is twenty-five pennies. Symmetry would be demonstrated when the sample stimulus is a quarter and they select

Throughout the shaping process, the instructor provides reinforcement when the learner emits a response that is slightly different from others within the response class and places other response topographies on extinction until the learner emits another slightly different response. These slightly different responses exemplify

Prior to working on counting skills with a young student who engaged in self-stimulatory hand flapping, the behavior analyst would vigorously ride scooters with the child up and down the driveway for 10 minutes. Then they would begin the session. This is an example of using which antecedent strategy?

A swim coach gradually increases the amount of time swimmers must hold their breath under water before signaling them to come up. This is an example of

Which statement describes extinction from the perspective of a behavior change tactic?

Observing responses are included in match-to-sample procedures to ensure attending to the

During an aerobics class, the instructor introduces the class to a new routine. He has everyone perform one step of the routine multiple times and asks, “Has everyone got it?” The students yell, “Yeah!” The instructor responds, “Adding on!” and shows the class another step. Once they have learned that step, the instructor has the class perform the first step, followed by the second step, and “adds on” again. The instructor repeats this process until the class is performing a long, complex routine at the end of the hour. The instructor’s procedure exemplifies

When training matching-to-sample, the minimum recommended number of comparison stimuli is two.