Question

Bobby, an ABA technician currently taking the RBT course, is working with a client in his company’s center. When he enters the room where the client is for their ABA session, the client stops what he is doing and turns to Bobby. This action of the client in relation to Bobby coming into the room where he is occurs more than 80% of total times. Bobby has stimulus control. (True/False)

Answer 1

Answer: True.

Explanation:

In behavioral psychology, stimulus control refers to a behavior that happens as a response to the appearance of a given stimulus. Likewise, a different behavior occurs in the absence of that stimulus.

In this example, the client´s behavior of stoping whatever he´s doing to turn to Bobby is controlled by the stimulus of Bobby entering the room. As a stimulus that alters behavior,  Bobby entering the room is a discriminative stimulus.