B-12 Part 3

You begin to read a book, but the words look blurry. The blurry words could have an

(all of the above) evocative effect on looking for glasses, abative effect on requesting additional reading material, abative effect on reading.

An SD

(all of the above) indicates the availability of reinforcement. if absent, indicates that reinforcement is not available. informs the organism whether or not a response at a particular time will result in reinforcement.

A toddler ignores a particular toy. When a peer (Mary) begins to play with it, the toddler approaches Mary. With respect to this approach, Mary playing with the toy is

A CMO-T

You are teaching a hungry child to request "Fork." You place a plate of food in front of the child, and you do not provide a fork. With respect to saying "Fork," hunger is

A UMO

A child engages in self-injurious behavior maintained by attention. The child has been sitting alone quietly for a long time. Self-injury suddenly commences when the child's mother walks into the room. The mother walking into the room is probably

An SD

A child in your class frequently asks the teacher to eat alone in the classroom when it gets too noisy in the cafeteria. Usually the teacher grants this request. However, if it is noisy and the teacher is not there, the child must remain in the cafeteria. The teacher's presence is

An SD

You are driving down the highway low on gas. In the distance, you see a lighted gas station sign and take the next exit. The sign in the distance is

An SD

Consider "a given stimulus (a) in the presence of which a particular behavior has been previously reinforced AND (b) in the absence of which a particular behavior has not been reinforced." When BOTH (a) and (b) are true, the previous sentence defines

An SD only

A plate of food and no fork is placed in front of a hungry child. If the child says "Fork," you provide one. If you are not present, there is no one else to give her a fork. You are

An Sd

You begin to read a book, but the words look blurry. Most likely, the blurry words

Are an MO for your eyeglasses

You are teaching a hungry child to request "Fork." You place a plate of food in front of the child, and you do not provide a fork. With respect to saying "Fork," the presence of food without a fork is

CMO-T

You are driving down the highway low on gas. In the distance, you see a lighted gas station sign and take the next exit. With respect to driving toward the sign, reaching the sign is

Conditioned reinforcer

You begin to read a book, but the words look blurry. You see your glasses sitting next to your spouse who gives them to you when you ask. You say, "Please pass my glasses."

Your spouse and the glasses sitting beside your spouse are having an evocative effect on requesting glasses.

You begin to read a book, but the words look blurry. You see your glasses sitting next to your spouse who typically gives them to you when you ask. You say, "Please pass my glasses." Most likely

Your spouse and the glasses sitting beside your spouse make up an SD for requesting glasses

You are driving down the highway low on gas, as indicated by your gas gauge. In the distance, you see a lighted gas station sign and take the next exit. With respect to taking the exit, your gas gauge pointing toward empty is

a CMO-T

You are driving down the highway approaching a billboard, behind which police often hide to catch speeders. They never sit anywhere else to catch speeders. You are often recklessly unconcerned about your safety, so you typically don't care about your speed, but you don't want to get a speeding ticket. As you approach the billboard, you look at your speedometer. With respect to looking at the speedometer, the billboard is

a CMO-T.

An MO

alters the reinforcing value of an object, event, or stimulus.

You are driving down the road and see police lights in your rear-view mirror. With respect to pulling over, the police lights are

an MO

A child in your class frequently asks to be squeezed in a gym mat. When requests for the mat will be granted, the mat is kept in the corner. At other times it is kept out of sight and requests to use the mat are denied. With respect to requesting the mat, the mat being in the corner is

an SD

You begin to read a book, but the words look blurry. The blurry words could have an

evocative effect on looking for glasses.

An SD

indicates the availability of reinforcement.

For a stimulus to be an SD, in its absence the behavior

is not followed by a consequence that would have reinforcing value at the time.

A child walks into a kitchen. There are no people around. The child says, "Cookie," walks to the cupboard, opens the door, takes a cookie, and eats it. Most likely, saying "cookie" is

under the control of food deprivation as an MO.