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Foundational Knowledge Worksheet Module 3 ABA 617 Introduction It is essential for scholars in Applied Behavior Analysis to both apply and demonstrate mastery of foundational knowledge content. In the context of ABA 617: Personnel Supervision & Management in ABA, you will be learning about using the principles of ABA to impact behavior at an organizational level. It is essential that you be able to relate these concepts to the philosophical and practical underpinnings of our science. The worksheet that follows will require you to stretch your thinking and make connections between concepts you may not have known could be related; your ability to do this will enhance your outcomes as a graduate student and enrich your clinical practice. Instructions 1) You may work with a peer on this assignment. 2) If you choose to work with a peer, you should work together via telephone, Skype, FaceTime, etc to complete this assignment in an interactive way. 3) After you have completed the assignment, you will upload the worksheet to Canvas. NOTE: All short answer submissions to this assignment MUST be ORIGINAL submissions. Fill in the blank answers may or may not match your partner’s. You may find that you agree or disagree on these answers- you need not come to consensus. Foundational knowledge activities are discussed (with notes taken) in pairs or small groups where assigned; however, submissions of all short answer foundational knowledge assignments must be the students’ ORIGINAL WORK. In other words, though students start this assignment together in small groups, the final product should not be completed together and no two short answer products should look the same. If the submission of your short answers are not original, you will be referred to academic integrity and/or will receive a zero on this assignment, at the discretion of the instructor. Identify the Behavior Analytic Concept Please read the following scenario Scenario The highway patrol is looking to further reduce texting and driving incidents. The higher ups declare a zero- tolerance edict over the next two weeks when patrol personnel see a driver so much as holding a phone in their hand or staring downward at what’s likely a phone although the latter may be difficult to prove if a citation is given and appealed. The edict requires the patrol personnel to pull over the offending or possibly offending driver in every suspected instance and give citations versus letting someone off with a 1

Foundational Knowledge Worksheet Module 3 ABA 617 warning. Patrol personnel who meet a certain quota of giving citations will be given an extra 10 hours of vacation time for the next year. Patrol personnel who don’t meet the quota of giving citations will have to attend a 5-hour retraining seminar. The higher ups have also decreed that interactions with offending motorists should be professional but neutral. Statements of apologies and/or or argumentative statements should be ignored versus responded to as they were in the past. When the ticket is given, the patrol personnel are to quickly leave the scene and go back to patrolling without making eye contact. It’s believed eye contact has reliably preceded apologetic and/or argumentative statements in the past. It’s the belief of the higher ups that the loss of funds from paying citations or time lost appealing citations will result in drivers keeping their phone out of reach when driving. Following the two-week zero tolerance policy, more signs will immediately be placed on the highway warning of patrol personnel specifically looking for illegal phone behavior when driving while the quota for giving citations will be eliminated. The higher ups will do so in hopes the signs alone following the brief surge of citations, a much cheaper intervention than increased court cases due to appeals, will result in drivers changing their behavior. Provide an example within the scenario above that relates to following concepts (1 point each) Positive Reinforcement The patrol personnel who met a certain quota of giving citations will be given an extra 10 hours of vacation time for next year. Negative Reinforcement The patrol personnel that do not meet the quota of giving citations will have to attend a 5 hour retraining seminar so by giving a citation of the patrol can avoid the retraining seminar. Extinction Any apologies from a driver being ignored can be considered as extinction by withholding reinforcement when it was previously reinforce. Negative Punishment Drivers spend money on citations in court would decrease phone use while driving. 2

Foundational Knowledge Worksheet Module 3 ABA 617 Positive Punishment The 5 hour retraining seminar for patrol officers can be positive punishment when they add the seminar to decrease the number of times that they are not meeting the quota. Stimulus Control A sign is a stimulus control to keep people not using their cellphones. Without the signs, the driver will continue to use the phones and the sign is a stimulus control to remind them to put them away. Discriminative Stimulus The Sd is the patrol personnel being available on the road to signal that they will get tickets by using their phones. Stimulus Delta Stimulus delta can be the sign of the phone usage inside the car but there is no sign of the officer, it makes the punishment/reinforcement unavailable. Motivating Operations The two week zero tolerance policy decreases the value of wanting to use a cell phone while driving. Group Members: 3

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