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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

During instructional time, a teenager who was deaf-blind poked his eye repeatedly to activate his optic nerve and generate a visual sensation. In addition to interventions to prevent injury to the eye, the behavior analyst could consider which of the following NCR reinforcers?

Once an FBA has been completed, what strategic approach(es) to intervention may be based upon it (select all that apply)?

Noncontingent reinforcement is an intervention in which stimuli with known reinforcing properties are delivered on a fixed-ratio (FR) or variable-ratio (VR) schedule independent of the learner’s behavior.

Contingency independent antecedent strategies

When a student was given a work sheet in class, the child whined and crawled under the desk. The student remained under the desk until the teacher removed the work sheet and provided no other work. Which form of an extinction procedure would be the most appropriate to use in this circumstance? Extinction of behavior maintained by