Although tests have confirmed that Matthew is not deaf, his mother is worried because Matthew is very slow to respond when she calls to him. Frequently, she has to resort to touching him before he looks at her. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate for measuring Matthew looking when called?

• A.frequency
• B.inter-response time
• C.latency
• D.duration

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When using an alternating treatments design it is important to randomly:

• A.assign participants to treatment conditions.
• B.select participants from the population of interest.
• C.order treatment conditions presented during each phase.
• D.change each criterion level.

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Patrick is participating in a toilet training program. For the first several sessions his trainer, Moira, prompted him to go to the toilet and she delivered edibles and praise each time he correctly voided. Eventually, Moira was able to fade prompts as Patrick began to go to the toilet and void independently. Which of the following BEST describes this process?

• A.negative reinforcement
• B.shifting from respondent to operant behavior
• C.transfer of stimulus control
• D.establishing operation

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One of the properties of behavior is

• A.size.
• B.effectiveness.
• C.repeatability.
• D.universality.

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Reinforcing "picking up shoe" in a shoe-tying program would be an example of a step in which type of training procedure?

• A.shaping
• B.chaining
• C.discrete trial
• D.naturalistic

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