BCBA Exam All Possible Questions and Answers 2023;(BCBA TEST BANK)
BCBA Exam All Possible Questions and
Answers 2023;(BCBA TEST BANK)
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 Ans – 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. Ans – 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. Ans –
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 Ans – 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
Ans – 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 Ans – 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. Ans – 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 Ans – 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 Ans – 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 Ans – d. All of the above
Habituation is _ behavior and Adaptation is _ behavior.
a. operant/ respondent
b. respondent/ operant
c. operant/ operant
d. respondent/ respondent Ans – b. respondent/ operant
Which is NOT a type of differential reinforcement:
a)DRH
b) DRF
c) DRO
d) DRD Ans – 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 Ans – C. Recovery insurgence
Baseline logic entails all of the following elements EXCEPT:
a) Prediction
b) Control
c) Verification
d) Replication Ans – 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 Ans – c) automatic reinforcement
A teacher describes a student’s talking out of turn behavior as occurring for no reason at
all- which characteristic of science does this represent:
a) Empiricism
b) Parsimony
c)Determinism
d) Philosophical doubt Ans – 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 Ans – 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 Ans – a) a stimulus
Which is NOT a factor that influences choice:
a) Effort
b)Delay
c)Magnitude
d) social acceptability Ans – d) social acceptability
3 levels of scientific understanding – DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description – Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction – AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the
other
Control – AKA: causation
Functional relation.
The highest level of scientific understanding.
Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV) results in another event
(DV).
6 attitudes of science
Philosophical assumptions of bx – DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
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