Homework Clinic
Social Science Clinic => Psychology => Topic started by: evelyn o bentley on Jun 21, 2018
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Sarah presses her mouse button while using her computer but nothing happens (the mouse is broken). Sarah presses the mouse button longer and harder before eventually giving up. Sarah's behavior of temporarily pressing the mouse button longer and harder before giving up is an example of a(an):
a. contingency
b. establishing operation
c. novel behavior
d. extinction burst
Question 2
Time-out should be used when:
a. the reinforcer for the problem behavior is escape from a task
b. the time-in environment is not reinforcing
c. functional procedures have not been implemented
d. none of these
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Answer to Question 1
d
Answer to Question 2
d