Question 1

Parents of noncompliant and disruptive children are frequently

Accepted Answer

A) vague in their behavioral instructions. 
B) depressed and/or impassive. 
C) reliant on punishment procedures. 
D) inattentive to their child's needs.

Question 2

Behavioral parent training assumes that a child's noncompliant behaviors are the result of poor

Accepted Answer

A) emotional regulation. 
B) developmental progress. 
C) parent-child interaction. 
D) executive control.

Question 3

A contingency contract serves to

Accepted Answer

A) identify potential reinforcers. 
B) limit the frequency of therapist intervention. 
C) bind individuals to their therapy initiatives. 
D) delineate behavior/consequence relationships.

Question 4

At the Community Training Center, a trainee would most likely pay more credits to _____ than to _____.

Accepted Answer

A) play checkers; read 
B) play table tennis; watch TV 
C) read; watch TV 
D) read; play checkers

Question 5

At the Community Training Center, credit cost of backup reinforcers reflected the

Accepted Answer

A) therapeutic benefit of the activities. 
B) client's personal valuations. 
C) self-reported behavioral frequencies. 
D) the client's level in the credit system.

Question 6

For token economies in the classroom, as children get older

Accepted Answer

A) backup reinforcers must be administered at home. 
B) tangible reinforcers much be switched to social reinforcers. 
C) academic reinforcers become more potent. 
D) reinforcement should be augmented with response cost.

Question 7

One basic element of a token economy is a list of acceleration and deceleration target behaviors, including

Accepted Answer

A) to whom each item applies. 
B) under what conditions the rules are in effect. 
C) the specific token-behavior contingencies. 
D) end-of-therapy performance expectations.

Question 8

At the Community Training Center, the area in which clients could engage in various pleasurable activities was called the

Accepted Answer

A) Relaxation Station. 
B) Crediteria. 
C) Reinforcement Room. 
D) Social Hall.

Question 9

At the Community Training Center, trainees earned credits primarily for

Accepted Answer

A) improving job performance. 
B) decreasing medication dosages. 
C) demonstrating independent living skills. 
D) minimizing positive symptomology.

Question 10

Achievement Place was

Accepted Answer

A) created to treat intellectual disability. 
B) based on the teaching-family model. 
C) modeled after the Community Training Center. 
D) founded to teach job skills.

Question 11

A teacher discontinues a successful token economy after 6 weeks.Behavioral gains observed in students at the end of treatment can be expected to

Accepted Answer

A) remain the same. 
B) decline. 
C) stop completely. 
D) increase.

Question 12

To prepare boys for their return home, Achievement Place utilized

Accepted Answer

A) selective extinction. 
B) cognitive restructuring. 
C) the merit system. 
D) booster sessions.

Question 13

At the Community Training Center, maladaptive behaviors were decelerated by

Accepted Answer

A) assigning them credit costs. 
B) suspending spending rights. 
C) extinction or overcorrection. 
D) banning social activities.

Question 14

At the Community Training Center, the number of credits awarded contingent upon a specific behavior would be modified if the

Accepted Answer

A) trainees refused to spend their tokens. 
B) tokens ceased to serve as reinforcers. 
C) backup reinforcers lost their potency. 
D) trainee had difficulty with the behavior.

Question 15

Clients obtain backup reinforcers by

Accepted Answer

A) spending acquired tokens. 
B) passing regular checkups. 
C) attending therapy sessions. 
D) assisting other clients.

Question 16

Token economies are used most often with

Accepted Answer

A) outpatient clientele. 
B) individuals. 
C) groups of clients. 
D) resistant conditions.

Question 17

Behavioral parent training was developed by

Accepted Answer

A) Ayllon and Azrin. 
B) Patterson and Forehand. 
C) Phillips, Wolf, and Fixsen. 
D) Spiegler and Agigian.

Exam 9: Combining Reinforcement and Punishment: Token Economy, Contingency Contract, and Behavioral Parent Training