Motivating operations and discriminative stimuli in behavior change: Motivating operations versus discriminative stimuli.

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A child performs requesting help only after the instructor points to the correct material. The goal is independent responding when the natural cue appears. Across 8 sessions in service week 8, 3 observers recorded 39 minutes of observation in the home program. The BCBA should:

This choice overgeneralizes from limited evidence. The stronger answer checks the controlling variables before assuming the same relation holds elsewhere.

Then answer a few related scenarios before moving back to broad practice.

Does the answer match the teaching or behavior-change procedure to the function, skill, and stimulus-control problem?

A child performs requesting help only after the instructor points to the correct material. The goal is independent responding when the natural cue appears. Across 8 sessions in service week 8, 3 observers recorded 39 minutes of observation in the home program. The BCBA should:

Discriminative stimulus when the stem emphasizes value alteration. This often shows up as calling every antecedent an sd..

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Practice 3 more questions tagged to Motivating operations versus discriminative stimuli, then explain why each wrong answer is weaker before moving back to mixed practice.

This choice overgeneralizes from limited evidence. The stronger answer checks the controlling variables before assuming the same relation holds elsewhere.

This choice moves too quickly toward a more intrusive response. The better answer checks function, risk, feasibility, and less intrusive options first.

This choice treats a procedure or response form as enough. The scenario still requires matching the action to function, assessment results, or the decision rule.