You have just completed an FBA on a child in a general education classroom setting. You have hypothesized that the challenging behavior is maintained by access to peer attention. Which antecedent intervention strategy would be the most appropriate in this situation?

You are working as a BCBA within a home setting with a seven-year old client who is struggling to learn an intraverbal response related to the feature of an item during a discrete trial training session. Although the client has responded to prompting provided by the BCBA, there has been difficulty fading the prompts for this child. The child has not responded independently after several teaching sessions. The BCBA decides to utilize a previously mastered tact to help teach this skill. What type of procedure is being used in this scenario?

According to Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior (1957), the __________ is unique in that it is the only verbal repertoire where the behavior is followed by a characteristic consequence.

A Nutritional therapy for which condition includes a reduction in protein?

The goals of nutritional therapy are to treat and manage disease, prevent complications, and restore or maintain health through appropriate diet. 

Factors that can affect the therapeutic process regardless of the particular intervention include:       

Which of the following statements are true concerning placebo and nocebo responses?

You are planning a health behavior intervention for increasing physical exercise for a company’s employees.  Before you will enroll employees in the exercise program you have each one complete a questionnaire to determine if they have been contemplating increasing their exercise and, if so, if they are ready to design a plan for action.  Which of the following health-behavior models is guiding your intervention?

In the original (1965) Alameda County study of health behaviors, those people who reported the fewest chronic conditions and highest energy were those who:

The follow-up study (1974) to the Alameda County study found that mortality over the 9 years since the original study was more than double for those who: