B-7 Quiz

What is an example of a behavior maintained by automatic contingencies?

• Interrupting others during group supervision

• Engaging in pinching staff

• Rubbing sore muscles

• Telling a joke to friends

In a clinical context, what type of reinforcement is present when a client engages in rocking back and forth on the floor to reduce anxiety?

• Socially mediated positive punishment

• Automatic negative reinforcement

• Socially mediated negative reinforcement

• Automatic positive reinforcement

What is an example of a behavior maintained by socially mediated reinforcement in an everyday context?

• Telling a joke to friends

• Tapping foot against the desk

• Engaging in pinching staff

• Rubbing sore muscles

Why should automatically reinforced behaviors not be targeted for intervention unless they are dangerous or causing harm to the client?

• Because they are not influenced by the environment

• Because they are always beneficial

• Because they are not common

• Because they are not problematic

What is an example of a behavior maintained by socially mediated negative reinforcement in a clinical context?

• Interrupting others during group supervision

• Engaging in pinching staff

• Rubbing sore muscles

• Telling a joke to friends

In a supervision/consultation context, what type of contingency is present when a supervisee's behaviors of calling out and interrupting others decrease after the supervisor provides a mildly displeased facial expression?

• Socially mediated positive punishment

• Automatic negative reinforcement

• Socially mediated negative reinforcement

• Automatic positive reinforcement