1. A decrease in the probability of a response due to the removal of a pleasant stimulus is called what?

Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment

2. What best describes momentary time sampling?

Records the presence or absence of a behaviour if it occurs once or more in a specific time interval
Records the occurrence of a response if it persists throughout an entire time interval
Records the occurrence of a behaviour if it is occurring at the moment a given time interval ends
Records the presence or absence of a given response within a time interval

3. Which of the following is not true of immediate consequences?

They occur immediately after the behaviour
They are produced by the target behaviour
They influence contextual variables that may be indirectly related to the recurrence of the behaviour
They directly alter the likelihood of recurrence of the behaviour

4. What are contextual stimuli?

Those antecedent stimuli that historically precede the target behaviour, increase the likelihood that it will occur, but do not elicit the behaviour directly
Those stimuli that occur concurrently with the target behaviour and increase the likelihood of it occurring, but do not directly elicit it
Those antecedent stimuli that historically precede the target behaviour, but do not increase the likelihood of it occurring or directly elicit it
Those stimuli that occur concurrently with the target behaviour, but do not increase the likelihood of it occurring or directly elicit it

5. Which of the following is not true of historical stimuli?

They help to understand the origins of the problem
They may not be directly related to the intervention
They do not elicit the behaviour directly
None of the above

6. Behaviours that occur at a reasonable frequency intensity or duration and are adaptive, but are elicited by inappropriate stimuli are usually classified as what?

Excess
Asset
Inappropriate stimulus control
Deficit

7. The contingent isolation or ignoring of an individual following an instance of inappropriate or problem behaviour is usually referred to as what?

Time out
Contingency punishment
Response cost
Negative punishment

8. A procedure in which the contingencies are clearly spelled out in advance and individuals make formal agreements about the elements to be in effect is called what?

Contingency management
Contingency contracting
Contingent reinforcement
Contingent reinforcement and punishment

9. What is not usually seen in the method section?

The aim of the study
The participant(s) of the study
The way the study was done
The equipment used in the study

10. What is an important consideration of any behavioural intervention?

Long term maintenance of the behaviour change
Changing material reinforcers to social reinforcers
It follows the general methods of other psychologists
The fixed interval schedule should eventually replace the variable ratio schedule