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  1. Which antecedent strategy involves providing free access to a reinforcer on a time-based schedule, independent of the learner's behavior?

    Answer: Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR)

    NCR delivers reinforcers on a fixed or variable time schedule regardless of behavior, abolishing the motivating operation for problem behavior.

  2. In the ABC model, antecedents are best described as:

    Answer: Environmental events that precede and set the occasion for behavior

    Antecedents are stimuli or events occurring before the behavior that increase or decrease the likelihood of the behavior occurring.

  3. A behavior technician dims the classroom lights and plays soft music before a learner's work session to reduce anxiety-driven problem behavior. This exemplifies:

    Answer: Setting event manipulation

    Setting events are distal antecedent conditions that alter the probability of behavior; modifying them is a form of antecedent intervention.

  4. When a teacher uses choice-making to reduce escape-motivated problem behavior, this works by:

    Answer: Altering the motivating operation by giving the learner control

    Choice-making gives the learner perceived control, which alters the aversiveness of the task and reduces the motivation to escape.

  5. Which of the following is an example of a discriminative stimulus (SD)?

    Answer: A therapist saying 'Touch the ball' in the presence of a ball, signaling that touching the ball will be reinforced

    An SD is a stimulus in the presence of which a specific behavior has been reinforced in the past, setting the occasion for that behavior.

  6. A BCBA recommends shortening task demands and incorporating frequent preferred activity breaks before a learner's problem behavior escalates. This intervention targets which antecedent factor?

    Answer: Aversive task characteristics as an establishing operation

    Long or difficult tasks function as establishing operations that increase the value of escape reinforcement; shortening them reduces this EO.