Jim's teacher has taught him to say, "Hello, how are you?" and when he does this, she delivers praise. Now Jim says this whenever he meets anyone, and some people say,
"Fine, how are you?" What is the natural consequence for Jim's behavior?

• A. increased number of friends
• B. improved social repertoire for Jim
• C. the responses of the people he meets
• D. continuous reinforcement

A functional relationship exists only iF.

• A. changes in a response class produce a functional consequence.
• B. reinforcement is contingent upon responding.
• C. a stimulus elicits a response without previous conditioning.
• D. changes in a stimulus class consistently alter a property of a response class.

Echoic behavior is controlled by a

• A. verbal stimulus, the response matches that stimulus, and reinforcer is specific.
• B. verbal stimulus, the response matches that stimulus, and reinforcer is non-specific.
• C. non-verbal stimulus, the response matches that stimulus, and reinforcer is specific.
• D. verbal stimulus, the response does not match that stimulus, and reinforcer is non-specific.

A narrative recording is used to clearly determine all of the following EXCEPT:

• A. presence of a particular behavior.
• B. duration of a behavior.
• C. function of a behavior.
• D. topography of undesirable behavior.

Which is NOT a characteristic of applied behavior analysis?

• A. precisely describing procedures and the rationales for using them
• B. an emphasis on the current function of the behavior in question
• C. reliably determining the variables that initially caused the behavior
• D. describing behavior in a way that can be objectively measured