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Observation sessions should be scheduled so that the representativeness of the data can be maximized.
Considering behaviors occurring in a school setting, which of the following options is consistent with this recommendation?

• A.Observations should be made only when the behavior is likely to occur most frequently during a day, for instance, during a particular academic class.
• B.Behaviors are given letter-codes that represent the complete topographical definition of the behaviors, e.g., "on-task academic behavior" is represented by "O" on the recording sheet.
• C.Recordings of behavior during the whole school day may be needed initially to assess the representativeness of samples within the day.
• D.Representativeness can be assured by scheduling observations in sessions of 60 minutes or more in the morning and afternoon school schedule.

Which of the following would not be a type of function of behavior identified during a functional assessment?

• A.Frustration
• B.Escape
• C.Attention
• D.Access to tangibles

An experimenter examines the effects of three types of prompts on compliance in a developmentally disabled person. In this experiment, what is the independent variable?

• A.The diagnosis of the individual
• B.The location of the environment
• C.The three types of prompts
• D.The level of compliance

A person "getting wet" in the rain is NOT considered an occurrence of behavior because "getting wet"

• A.does not have social or clinical significance in a science of human behavior.
• B.does not specify an interaction between an organism and its environment.
• C.is a hypothetical construct and cannot therefore meet the criteria for an occurrence of behavior.
• D.can occur under only one, very specific environmental condition.

The use of an alternating treatments design should be considered iF.

• A.one needs to evaluate the effects of a single intervention across multiple settings.
• B.it is important that multiple interventions be evaluated quickly.
• C.the results of multiple reversal designs are ambiguous.
• D.there is the possibility that the effect of one intervention will influence the effect of another.