1. Summer Behavior Institute Intensive Focus on Behavioral Theory
Day 4
Brandi Simonsen, Adam Feinberg,
Jen Freeman, & Susannah Everett

2. You Have a Quiz
Number your paper 1-8 and be ready to write the letter corresponding to the correct answer.

3. Quiz: Behavioral Principles in Teaching
Answer Key
Multiple Choice: Please answer the following questions by circling the best answer.
 To establish stimulus control, it is necessary to explicitly teach the conditions under which a behavior will result in reinforcement. To maximize effective responding, it is often desirable to also do which of the following?
Use discrimination training to ensure the learner responds with the target response (R1) only in the presence of the SD
Teach the features of the stimulus class to which the target response should be generalized (stimulus generalization)
Teach the range of responses that are effective (i.e., result in reinforcement) in the presence of the SD (response generalization)
All of the above
True/False: Behavior may only be shaped along the behavioral dimension of topography.
True
False

4. Quiz: Behavioral Principles in Teaching
Answer Key
Multiple Choice: Please answer the following questions by circling the best answer.
Which phase of learning is best described by the following. When provided with brief instruction, the learner is able to perform a skill accurately at a rate that allows the skill to be functional. (However, if time passes without instruction, the learner is unable to demonstrate the skill until reminded/retaught.)
Acquisition
Fluency
Maintenance
Generalization
True/False: To teach complex behavior, we should first perform a task analysis and then teach the behavior step-by-step using chaining.
True
False

5. Quiz: Behavioral Principles in Teaching
Answer Key
Multiple Choice: Please answer the following questions by circling the best answer.
True/False: To increase the likelihood of generalization, we should select behaviors that have a limited potential for reinforcement in the natural environment.
True
False
 All of the following are strategies to promote generalization except:
Make the instructional setting as similar as possible to the generalization setting
Explicitly teach with one stimulus-response example
Mediate generalization
Train to generalize

6. Quiz: Self-Management
Answer Key
Multiple Choice: Please answer the following questions by circling the best answer.
Skinner (1953) describes self-control or self-management as all of the following except:
Manipulating your own behaviors in the same way you would manipulate someone else’s
Delaying gratification
Engaging in one response (controlling) that affects the probability of a subsequent (controlled) response
Manipulating the variables (MO, SD, and SR/P) of which your own behavior is a function
If you want to increase a desired behavior, which self-management strategy is appropriate?
Providing a prompt that cues the relevant (desired) behavior
Self-monitor use of the desired behavior
Reinforce yourself frequently when you engage in small amounts of the desired behavior (and gradually increase your criterion for reinforcement)
All of the above