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)?

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

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.

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?

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?

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