BEHV 5600: Application Scenarios: Motivating Operations
Lena is home from school and was given instructions by her mother to clean the kitchen before she gets home from work. The kitchen has not yet been cleaned, and Lena hears the garage door open at home. Lena immediately jumps up from the couch and starts cleaning the kitchen. The stimulus change of the garage door serves as what type of Conditioned Motivating Operation?
CMO-Reflexive
Burris purchased an international sim card prior to traveling internationally. Their sim card sat in their backpack for several days prior to traveling without transfer into their phone. Upon arriving to the new country, they searched their backpack for their sim card. The stimulus change of being in a new country serves as what type of Conditioned Motivating Operation?
CMO-Transitive
Mark is working on mands with one of his clients Frank. To set the occasion for Frank to emit a mand, Mark gave him a juice box without a straw. Deprivation from the straw is considered what type of motivating operation?
Conditioned Motivating Operation
You are driving on a road trip across a remote part of New Mexico when your gas light turns on. You immediately begin looking for signs along the road indicating exits and possible gas stations. When you do not see any obvious signs indicating a gas station you begin googling the distance to the nearest gas station. What effect can be described by the increase in the behavior of looking for gas stations and the behavior of googling the distance to the nearest gas station?
evocative effect
You are driving on a road trip across a remote part of New Mexico when your gas light turns on. You immediately begin looking for signs along the road indicating exits and possible gas stations. When you do not see any obvious signs indicating a gas station you begin googling the distance to the nearest gas station. What effect can be described by the increased value of gasoline as a reinforcer in this scenario?
reinforcer-establishing effect
You are schoolteacher that stays home with the kids during the summer break. You like to read books during the summer break, so you encourage your kids to play together while you read your favorite book. Occasionally while reading, you look up and see your kids playing together quietly and praise them for playing well together. The phone rings so you get up to answer it. While you are talking on the phone, your kids start arguing and making a lot of noise. Their conflict escalates to the point that you must yell, "Be quiet, I'm on the phone". After the phone call ends, you hang up the phone and go back to reading your book. The kids settle down and go back to playing quietly together. You wonder to yourself, why do the kids always act up when I answer the telephone? Your diverted attention during the phone call has been conditioned with MO effects for your kid's behavior. Which kind of CMO is this?
surrogate CMO
You like going to restaurants and do so on a regular basis. Before going out to eat, you ensure that you are very hungry so can get the most pleasure out of eating the meal. After multiple meals at your favorite restaurant you notice that seeing the sign for the restaurant is enough to make you hungry. Seeing the sign even makes you hungry after eating a full meal. The restaurant sign has been conditioned with MO effects, which kind of CMO is the restaurant sign?
surrogate CMO
The interrupted chain procedure involves withholding an item a learner needs to complete a previously leaned task. This procedure is often used by therapist to set the occasion for learner to mand for the item he needs. By withholding the needed item, the therapist is using which type of CMO?learners
transitive CMO
Lucy is training for a marathon and while on a practice run realized she forgot her water bottle. Lucy was 7 miles from her home when she began feeling thirsty; by the time Lucy arrived home she immediately went to the kitchen to get a bottle of water. Deprivation from water is considered what type of motivating operation?
Unconditioned Motivating Operation
