Deck 24: Planning, Applying, and Evaluating a Behavioral Program

Question 1

What is a behavioral contract?

Answer 1

A behavioral contract provides a clear statement of what behaviors of what individuals will produce what reinforcers and who will deliver those reinforcers.

Question 2

What five variables should an appropriate baseline procedure enable you to monitor or identify?

Answer 2

An appropriate Baseline procedure should enable you to: (a)monitor the problem behavior, (b)identify its current stimulus control, (c)identify its maintaining consequences, (d)monitor relevant medical/health/personal variables, and (e)identify an alternative desirable behavior.

Question 3

If you are thinking of capitalizing on antecedent control, what six categories should you consider? ]

Answer 3

Rules, goal setting, modelling, physical guidance, situational inducement, and motivating operations.

Question 4

List four considerations for programming behavior maintenance.

Question 5

How does a behavior modifier evaluate the ease with which a problem might be solved?

Question 6

Describe in detail the steps that should be followed if a program is not producing satisfactory results (see Guidelines 5, 6, and 7).

Question 7

List five considerations for programming stimulus generalization.

Question 8

If a program is producing satisfactory results, what two things should be done prior to successfully terminating it? (See Guidelines 8 and 9.)

Question 9

What is a treatment contract, and what should it clearly outline?

Question 10

If you are decreasing a behavioral excess, what five questions should you ask?

Question 11

How does a behavior modifier evaluate the ease with which the desired behavioral change might be generalized to and maintained in the natural environment?

Question 12

List three considerations for programming response generalization.

Question 13

Assume that you are a professional applied behavior analyst or behavior therapist.List four possible conditions under which you would not treat a behavior problem that has been referred to you.

Question 14

What five questions should be answered affirmatively to increase the client's commitment to the program?

Question 15

What does a behavior modifier do when given a vague problem such as "aggression" to work on? Illustrate with an example.

Question 16

What six questions should a behavior modifier answer during the pretreatment assessment phase?

Question 17

You are about to design a treatment program.After defining the target behavior and identifying its desired level of occurrence and stimulus control, what six questions should you answer before proceeding to the design?

Question 18

How might the geographic setting affect your decision as a behavior modifier to accept a referral?

Question 19

How does a behavior modifier evaluate the importance of a problem?

Question 20

After a program has been implemented, what three things should be done to determine whether it is producing satisfactory results? (See Guidelines 1, 2, and 3.)

Question 21

How did Israel and colleagues demonstrate that utilizing significant others in a program can enhance generality?