RBT Exam 2023
GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)
- Even though she has a huge exam tomorrow, Mary decides to go out with her
friends. She doesn't get home until 2am and ends up failing her exam. Mary never stays out until 2am again before an exam. What influences Mary's behavior?
Answer: Positive punishment
- positive reinforcement
Answer: increasing behaviors by presenting positive rein- forcers. A positive
reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response.
- negative reinforcement
Answer: the reinforcement of a response by the removal, es- cape from, or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus
- positive punishment
Answer: addition of something unpleasant
- negative punishment
Answer: taking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a behavior
- A dad is teaching his son how to hammer nails into pieces of wood. The dad tells
his son that he needs to hit the nails harder. The dad is referring to what aspect of behavior?Answer magnitude
- The sound of a gun firing signals sprinters to start running. What would the sprinters
want to reduce relative to the gun going off and beginning to run?Answer Latency
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