Which of the Following Scenarios Involves a Behavioral Contingency

question 118

Multiple Choice

Which of the following scenarios involves a behavioral contingency?

• A) James ate dinner tonight and came down with indigestion.
• B) While throwing a chair, Linda bit her tongue.
• C) Susan hit her head on the wall, and a staff person asked her to stop.
• D) When asked to do her tasks, Doris said, "I will not do that!"

---

Definitions:

Ordinal Data

A type of categorical data that has a meaningful order or ranking among the categories but not a measurable distance between them.

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, typically denoted by alpha.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, often used when comparing three or more groups.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A non-parametric statistical test used to assess whether two independent samples come from populations with the same distribution.