Study Guide: Behavior Analysis is not Ultimately About Behavior (Carr)

Select all the examples of reciprocity.

A child in a daycare is taught to request a break instead of being aggressive. As a result, the child frequently requests a break when demands are placed and staff members are injured less and come to work more frequently. A teacher starts providing behavior specific praise for an individual with autism. At first the teacher only praises the student about once an hour. By the end of the first week, the teacher is praising the child multiple times each hour.

Which of the following best describes behavior analysis according to Carr (1993)?

An active science that focuses on looking at the environment to determine the function and purpose of behavior

Carr (1993) suggests that operant psychology is not appreciated. What solution does he propose?

Educate people about contemporary behavior analysis.

What does Carr (1993) mean when he says behavior analysis is not unidirectional?

The effects of our interventions do not just affect the individual served, but extend to change the behaviors of others interacting in that system.

Leila has frequent temper tantrums that include screaming, hitting her head on the floor and kicking her caregiver. Which of the following could be the function of Leila's tantrums?

sensory attention escape

According to the author, what are operant psychologists concerned with above all else?

the function of behavior

When speaking, we say that behavior analysis studies the function of a behavior. How does the author suggest that we describe what we study?

the purpose of behavior

Carr (1993) says that true behavior analysts have very little interest in behavior. What are they interested in instead?

why behavior occurs