What is Your Parent Reinforcement Style?

Quiz Questions

• 1.
  Speadsheets?

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  • A.
    Just the idea of spreadsheets gets me excited
  • B.
    A spreadsheet can be great now and again
  • C.
    It's all Greek to me!
  • D.
    Spreadsheets are great when someone else looks at them for me
• 2.
  What type of runner would you be in relation to your parenting style:

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  • A.
    the 50 yard dasher
  • B.
    the 800 meterer
  • C.
    the 5,000 steeplechaser
  • D.
    the marathoner
• 3.
  Which of these jobs is most you?

  • A.
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    Air Traffic Controller - You are consistent and focused on many things at once.
  • B.
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    Artist - You tend to focus on the creative and inspiring above other things.
  • C.
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    Farmer - you like to plant seeds and watch them grow
  • D.
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    Surgeon - You like to target one area and put your focus there
• 4.
  Where are your keys typically?

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  • A.
    Location varies, but I always seem to find them quickly since it is usually one of three places
  • B.
    On the key holder on the wall since that is where they belong
  • C.
    Last time I looked I found them in the freezer
  • D.
    Where they should be as part of the organizational system I have created for keys, electronics, and family communication
• 5.
  My first thought when seeing this image is...

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  • A.
    ”These children need to learn some discipline”
  • B.
    ”This looks like a usual Tuesday in my house.”
  • C.
    ”I feel lucky that we are passed behaviors like this.”
  • D.
    ”Serenity now!”
• 6.
  A dinner at your house typically looks like:

  • A.
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    Full Thanksgiving dinner on a fully dressed table
  • B.
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    "Wait! Has anyone ordered dinner yet!?"
  • C.
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    Everyone eats on the go!
  • D.
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    You make a lot of tried and true dinners.
• 7.
  How would you describe your daily life?

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    Lucy & Ethel
  • B.
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    Grumpy Cat
  • C.
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    Structured & Orderly
  • D.
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    Unicorns and Rainbows

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  The best behavior plan for you is... A COMPREHENSIVE REWARD PROGRAM!

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  You tend to be a parent who can be organized and may thrive on data. You might tend to value the beauty of longer-term goals and are willing to focus on multiple areas at the same time. You tend to be structured and consistent. Given this type of parenting personality style you may thrive with a more comprehensive behavioral system. Comprehensive behavioral systems tend to involve tracking multiple goals across time in systematic ways. This type of system can often include several opportunities for your child to earn points, tokens, etc. towards desired rewards. This type of personality style can also thrive with more simple behavioral systems due to your focus regarding consistency and tracking. These more simple systems might include a sticker chart that targets, a smaller list of goals, and time periods to track and consistent daily bonuses.Quiz created by Jodie Knott, Ph.D, BCBA and Brittany McKee, Psy.D., BCBA, who specialize in providing mental health and consultation services to children, adults and families. Drs. McKee and Knott have over 30 years collective experience in providing services regarding mild to moderate social, emotional and behavioral challenges, including areas such as ADHD and high functioning autism.
• 2.
  The best behavior plan for you is...A DAILY REWARD PLAN!

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  You tend to be a parent who might struggle with more comprehensive behavioral systems since they can feel overwhelming to manage and track. You tend to thrive with systems that can be short-term and strategic in focus. You are likely to have success with behavioral plans that track a small amount of expectations with awards that are given quickly so that there is no need to track behaviors over time or commit to providing rewards further down the line. This would be considered a daily system, and an example of this type of system would be a child earning a special seat in the car or control of the radio for that day's morning ride to school if the morning hygiene was completed on time.Sometimes parents with daily reward plans like to set up a morning expectation with potential for a bonus, as well as setting up an expectation and connected bonus for homework time and the evening.Quiz created by Jodie Knott, Ph.D, BCBA and Brittany McKee, Psy.D., BCBA, who specialize in providing mental health and consultation services to children, adults and families. Drs. McKee and Knott have over 30 years collective experience in providing services regarding mild to moderate social, emotional and behavioral challenges, including areas such as ADHD and high functioning autism.
• 3.
  The best behavior plan for you is...    A STICKER CHART!

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  You are a parent who tends to be in the middle in regards to how much time you want to focus on a child’s goal, being organized, and consistent. You may have success with a behavioral plan that tends to be short to medium in length with the focus being on one or two goal areas versus many things at once. Behavioral plans that tend to fit into this category can be things like a weekly sticker chart with a few goals that are tracked daily for a short period of the day and things like marble jars in which your child earns marbles toward a specific reward. In this type of plan a child will earn a bonus when enough marbles or stickers are earned. These types of plans can be very effective and are great because you can focus on a couple behaviors or break down the multiple steps that go into a behavior such as the steps for following directions.Quiz created by Jodie Knott, Ph.D, BCBA and Brittany McKee, Psy.D., BCBA, who specialize in providing mental health and consultation services to children, adults and families. Drs. McKee and Knott have over 30 years collective experience in providing services regarding mild to moderate social, emotional and behavioral challenges, including areas such as ADHD and high functioning autism.