Intro to Behavior Therapy

Mai wants to stop her cat from door dashing. The behavior she wants to change (door dashing) is called the:​

• Negative behavior

• Target behavior

• Independent variable

• Controlling variable

In an A-B-A-B design, B refers to ______________ and A refers to _________________.​

• treatment, baseline

• baseline, assessent

• dependent variable, independent variable

• baseline, treatment

When a child presents with a problem behavior, an initial step in changing the child’s behavior is to: 

• train the parents

• make a graph

• train the child

• program the behavior

________ are procedures that temporarily alter the effectiveness of a consequence on behavior. 

• motivating operations

• unconditioned operations

• automatic operations

• natural operations

In an extinction burst, the behavior temporarily increases before it decreases.

• True

• False

Based on the following scenario: I walk into a pole while texting. Which principle is best applies?

• negative punishment

• positive punishment

• negative reinforcement

• positive reinforcement

Based on the following scenario: A teenager not being allow to hang out with friends for a week for skipping school. Which principle is best applies?

• negative punishment

• positive punishment

• positive reinforcement

• negative reinforcement