Deck 19: Promoting Generalization

Question 1

While teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel has the parents bring their kids to class so the parents can practice the parenting skills with their actual kids.What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Incorporating common stimuli
B)Teaching a range of functionally equivalent responses
C)Providing cues in the natural environment
D)Incorporating self-generated mediators of generalization

Answer 1

A

Question 2

After teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel then asks the parents to remember a simple self-instruction they can use to guide their behavior in the home and make it more likely they will use the parenting skills.What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Incorporating common stimuli
B)Teaching a range of functionally equivalent responses
C)Providing cues in the natural environment
D)Incorporating self-generated mediators of generalization

Answer 2

D

Question 3

If you want to promote generalized reductions in problem behaviors,you should:

A)conduct a functional assessment of the problem behavior
B)plan for generalization in advance
C)focus on functionally-equivalent behaviors to replace the problem behavior
D)all of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

After teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel then goes into the homes and praises the parents for each of the parenting skills they use successfully.What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Reinforcing occurrences of generalization
B)Training skills that contact natural contingencies of reinforcement
C)Modifying contingencies of reinforcement and punishment in the natural environment
D)Incorporating a wide range of relevant stimulus situations in training

Question 5

While teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel taught the parents a variety of different ways to exhibit the skills (for example,a number of different ways to reinforce their child's appropriate behavior. )What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Incorporating common stimuli
B)Teaching a range of functionally equivalent responses
C)Providing cues in the natural environment
D)Incorporating self-generated mediators of generalization

Question 6

After teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel then asks each parent to praise the other parent when the parent uses a parenting skill successfully.What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Reinforcing occurrences of generalization
B)Training skills that contact natural contingencies of reinforcement
C)Modifying contingencies of reinforcement and punishment in the natural environment
D)Incorporating a wide range of relevant stimulus situations in training

Question 7

After teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel then went to the homes and put reminder signs in each room for the parents to read to make it more likely they will use the parenting skills.What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Incorporating common stimuli
B)Teaching a range of functionally equivalent responses
C)Providing cues in the natural environment
D)Incorporating self-generated mediators of generalization

Question 8

While teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel includes a large variety of circumstances in which the parents will need to use the parenting skills and has the parents practice the skills in each of these circumstances.What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Training skills that contact natural contingencies of reinforcement
B)Modifying contingencies of reinforcement and punishment in the natural environment
C)Incorporating a wide range of relevant stimulus situations in training
D)Incorporating common stimuli

Question 9

While teaching parenting classes to parents with disabilities,Joel taught the parents specific things to say and do with their children that would generate the most reinforcing responses from the children (the children would react most favorably).What strategy to promote generalization is illustrated in this example?

A)Training skills that contact natural contingencies of reinforcement
B)Modifying contingencies of reinforcement and punishment in the natural environment
C)Incorporating a wide range of relevant stimulus situations in training
D)Incorporating common stimuli

Question 10

In behavior modification,????????????????????_______________ is defined as the occurrence of the behavior in the presence of all relevant stimuli outside the training situation.

A)discrimination
B)reinforcement
C)generalization
D)discrimination training