Julie wants to replace drinking coffee with the alternative behavior of drinking water.Julie keeps a filled water bottle on her desk at work,and has her co-workers remind her to drink more water.In this example,Julie is using the antecedent control strategy of ____________ for desirable alternative behaviors.
A) increasing response effort
B) presenting the discriminative stimulus and cues
C) arranging establishing operations
D) eliminating establishing operations

Question

Julie wants to replace drinking coffee with the alternative behavior of drinking water.Julie keeps a filled water bottle on her desk at work,and has her co-workers remind her to drink more water.In this example,Julie is using the antecedent control strategy of ____________ for desirable alternative behaviors.​
A) ​increasing response effort
B) ​presenting the discriminative stimulus and cues
C) ​arranging establishing operations
D) ​eliminating establishing operations

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Julie is presenting the discriminative stimulus and cues for drinking water by keeping a filled water bottle on her desk and having her co-workers remind her to drink more water. Antecedent control strategies aim to manipulate the environment to increase the likelihood of desired behaviors, and presenting discriminative stimuli and cues is one such strategy. Increasing response effort (A) involves making the undesirable behavior more difficult to engage in, which is not the strategy being used here. Arranging establishing operations (C) and eliminating establishing operations (D) involves manipulating the motivation for a behavior, which is not applicable to this scenario of replacing a behavior with a desirable alternative behavior.

Julie Wants to Replace Drinking Coffee with the Alternative Behavior