BCBA Exam Prep questions with verified
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Kim a 8yr old girl loves drawing but hates maths.Her teacher designed an intervention to
increase her compliance in maths.She allowed her to do drawing first before pre
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BCBA Exam Prep questions with verified
solutions
Kim a 8yr old girl loves drawing but hates maths.Her teacher designed an intervention to
increase her compliance in maths.She allowed her to do drawing first before presenting any
maths problem. she gave full prompt to finish her maths problem and also ignored her tantrums
before letting her to draw again. What interventions this scenario involves:-
a)NCR,extinction,prompt
b)high-p request,extinction and prompt
c)behavior momentum, extinction
d)NCR, behavior momentum,extinction ,prompt ✔✔b/d?
Louise is teaching Julien to identify colors. She has 3 colored bears on the table. She says,
"Touch blue." Which is the BEST example of a prompt:
A. She moves the blue bear closer to Julien, and he selects the green bear.
B. She briefly glances at the blue bear, and Julien selects the blue bear.
C. She places a black slash from a marker on the blue bear before delivering the Sd.
D. Julien touches the yellow bear, and she hand-over-hand has him touch the blue bear. ✔✔B.
She briefly glances at the blue bear, and Julien selects the blue bear.
George 7yr old child has a behavior of stuffing his school toilet with tissue paper.Her teacher
decided to lock the toilet.The procedure was:-
a)extinction of behavior maintained by social positive reinforcement.
b)MO alteration by increasing response effort
C) Punishment
d) extinction of behavior maintained by automatic reinforcement. ✔✔
A prompt is:
A) an antecedent stimulus
B) a consequence as in a "No-No Prompt" procedure
C) might not always evoke correct responding
D) should always maintain its stimulus control ✔✔A) an antecedent stimulus
George, a BCBA recently accepted a case involving a young child diagnosed with autism who
bangs his head and has limited communication skills. Upon meeting the child's parents for the
first time, George asked them about potential reinforcers (favorite toys, foods, activities, etc),
what times of day he seems to engage in head banging, why the child does this and what happens
before/ after head banging.
a. The questions George asked are acceptable
b. The questions George asked are somewhat acceptable
c. The questions George asked are not acceptable
d. George should not have asked any questions, he should've conducted an FA first ✔✔b. The
questions George asked are somewhat acceptable
Franklin barks at the mailman when he delivers mail. His owner sprays him with water as the
mailman approaches the house. In the future, Franklin's rate of barking increases when the
mailman is present. The procedure used could best be described as:
A. Positive punishment
B. Negative punishment
C. Positive reinforcement
D. Negative reinforcement ✔✔C. Positive reinforcement
Mrs. M has a student she is toilet training. He is successful 70% of occasions. She beings to
notice a correlation between elastic waist pants and pants with a button and zipper and number of
accidents. Which is the most parsimonious explanation?
A. He needs more occupational therapy.
B. He can't undo a button on pants.
C. He enjoys having accidents because of the attention that is provided.
D. Buttoned pants have become aversive. ✔✔B. He can't undo a button on pants.
4 Branches of Behavior Analysis:
a. Conceptually Systematic, Applied, Stimulus Control, Effective Treatment
b. Conceptual Analysis of Behavior, ABA, Systematically Applied Interventions, Experimental
Analysis of Behavior
c. Conceptual Analysis of Behavior, ABA, Behavior Service Delivery, Experimental Analysis of
Behavior
d. Conceptually Systematic, Analytical, Stimulus Control, Effective ✔✔c. Conceptual Analysis
of Behavior, ABA, Behavior Service Delivery, Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Mickey walks the perimeter of the playground during recess. You are targeting increasing the
duration of time spent within a 5 foot or less proximity of peers during recess, the data collection
system you would use is:
A. Event recording
B. Whole interval time sampling
C. Partial interval time sampling
D. Momentary time sampling ✔✔B. Whole interval time sampling
AKA(s) for Operant behavior:
a. Stimulus-Response-Stimulus Model AND S-R-S
b. S-R-S AND 3-Term Contingency
c. ABC AND 3-Term Contingency
d. All of the above ✔✔d. All of the above
Habituation is _____ behavior and Adaptation is _____ behavior.
a. operant/ respondent
b. respondent/ operant
c. operant/ operant
d. respondent/ respondent ✔✔b. respondent/ operant
Which is NOT a type of differential reinforcement:
a)DRH
b) DRF
c) DRO
d) DRD ✔✔b) DRF
Jack is engaging in aggressive behavior. An intervention is introduced where his aggressive
behavior decreases to criterion. A few months later instead of aggressive behavior increasing,
property destruction increases. What is this called?
A. Extinction burst
B. Spontaneous recovery
C. Recovery insurgence
D. Habilitation ✔✔C. Recovery insurgence
Baseline logic entails all of the following elements EXCEPT:
a) Prediction
b) Control
c) Verification
d) Replication ✔✔b) Control
scratching a flea bite on your leg is an example of:
a) positive reinforcement
b) negative reinforcement
c) automatic reinforcement
d) sensory reinforcement ✔✔c) automatic reinforcement
A teacher describes a student's talking out of turn behavior as occurring for no reason at allwhich characteristic of science does this represent:
a) Empiricism
b) Parsimony
c)Determinism
d) Philosophical doubt ✔✔c)Determinism
two procedures for identifying effective reinforcers are:
a) stimulus preference assessment and reinforcer Assessment
b) reinforcer assessment and FBA
c) FBA and stimulus preference assessment
d) none of the above ✔✔a) stimulus preference assessment and reinforcer Assessment
A sign for a department store is:
a) a stimulus
b) an EO
c)an SD
d) a reinforcer ✔✔a) a stimulus
Which is NOT a factor that influences choice:
a) Effort
b)Delay
c)Magnitude
d) social acceptability ✔✔d) social acceptability
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