Vanessa frequently complains of getting terrible headaches and so ends up at the nurse's office several times a week. Yet two different physicians have been unable to find a cause for Vanessa's headaches, and Vanessa's parents report that their daughter rarely has headaches at home. Vanessa is falling further and further behind in her schoolwork, so Vanessa's teacher and parents meet with the
nurse and school psychologist to brainstorm possible solutions to Vanessa's problem. The school psychologist suggests that the teacher keep track of the occasions when Vanessa complains about a headache. Two weeks later, the teacher reports that all of Vanessa's complaints occur just before a test or difficult assignment. Suddenly the teacher and parents begin to suspect that perhaps Vanessa complains of headaches as a way of getting out of having to do difficult assignments. Here we see the initial steps in a process known as:
a. The use of incompatible behaviors
b. Behavioral momentum
c. Functional analysis
d. Extinction of inappropriate behavior
c
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Suppose a researcher must obtain a significance level of p = .01 to reject the null hypothesis. He finds that his results are significant at the p = .05 level. The researcher should do which of the following?
a) Fail to reject the null hypothesis because .05 is greater than .01. b) Fail to reject the null hypothesis because there is not much difference between .05 and .01. c) Reject the null hypothesis because .05 indicates sampling error. d) Reject the null hypothesis because .05 is greater than .01.
The person credited with providing us with the theory behind the expression B = f(p ยท e) is
a. B.F. Skinner. b. Benjamin Bloom. c. Thomas S. Kuhn. d. Kurt Lewin.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
When looking at the success of assistive technology, teachers should refer to support staff to work with the students using that technology.
A study of race/ethnicity and children in poverty shows which of the following?
A. Persistent racial disparities, although the great majority of children in poverty are White. B. Most low-income and children in poverty are Black or Latino. C. Black and Latino children are over-represented in poverty. D. Asian American children are under-represented in poverty and low-income families.