QUESTION: 37

Which schedule of reinforcement is most effective at maintaining behaviors?

Continuous reinforcement
Intermittent reinforcement
Extinction
Ratio

Answer(s): B

You are teaching David to clean the workshop to prepare him for working on the cleaning crew. Read the descriptions below and identify which is LEAST likely to promote generalization of the workshop cleaning skills to real-life cleaning jobs.

Make the workshop as much like a real cleaning situation as possible
Transition to variable, delayed reinforcement
Teach David to use a checklist, which could be used on the cleaning crew
Make the workshop distinctive from the cleaning crew and then gradually make it more like it

Answer(s): D

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QUESTION: 39

You are working with a client who finds physical touch to be aversive. When the person is off task, the program calls for you to give a warning by counting to 10; at that point, you gently touch him if he is not back on task. The touch remains until he returns to task. Please note that being touched is aversive for this particular individual. If the person gets back on task during counting, this is an example of: