Discrimination Training

Question 1

When a person engages in behavior under certain circumstances and not under other circumstances it is called…

Answer 1

A discrimination

Question 2

Behavior will be ____ in contexts where reinforcement is provided.

Answer 2

strengthened

Question 3

Behavior will be _____ in contexts in which reinforcement is not provided.

Answer 3

weakened

Question 4

_______ is a result of discrimination training.

Answer 4

Stimulus control

Question 5

Discrimination training involves:

Answer 5

Reinforcing some responses and not reinforcing other responses

Question 6

A teacher provides reinforcement when a child says, “car” in the presence of a toy car and not in its absence. This is an example of _____ .

Answer 6

discrimination training

Question 7

If the child says car in the presence of a car and only a car, we say that the car has ____ over this behavior.

Answer 7

stimulus control

Question 8

The only way to know if discrimination training is working is to _____ .

Answer 8

collect data and graph the data to review

Question 9

To determine if the child has learned to make discriminations, record data on:

Answer 9

The child’s response to each antecedent stimulus

Question 10

If data analysis shows that the teaching procedure is not working, you should;

Answer 10

Seek help from your BCBA supervisor