BACB BCBA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

BACB BCBA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 101:

  A teacher is tracking the performance of both math and spelling assignments for each of her 25 students. For feedback purposes, she wishes to display each student's percent correct for both areas using a line graph. What would be the MOST effective and efficient way to accomplish this?

  A. Prepare a large graph for spelling and a similar one for math and place on the graphs the average data for the entire class in the two content areas.
  B. Prepare a separate graph for each student and, using a unique symbol for each content area, record the data and connect the similar symbols to create data path lines.
  C. Prepare a single large graph and display each student's data for the spelling and math areas using unique symbols for each student and for each content area.
  D. Prepare two graphs for each student, one for spelling and one for math, because there is no appropriate method for reporting these two content areas together on the same graph.
  B. Prepare a separate graph for each student and, using a unique symbol for each content area, record the data and connect the similar symbols to create data path lines.

• Question 102:

  A functional relationship exists only iF.

  A. changes in a response class produce a functional consequence.
  B. changes in a stimulus class consistently alter a property of a response class.
  C. reinforcement is contingent upon responding.
  D. a stimulus elicits a response without previous conditioning.
  B. changes in a stimulus class consistently alter a property of a response class.

• Question 103:

  When using an alternating treatments design it is important to randomly:

  A. assign participants to treatment conditions.
  B. select participants from the population of interest.
  C. order treatment conditions presented during each phase.
  D. change each criterion level.
  C. order treatment conditions presented during each phase.

• Question 104:

  A behavior analyst decides to replicate a published research project but finds that the information provided does not allow them to complete the project without more information from the author. The article violates which dimension of applied behavior analysis?

  A. effective
  B. ethical
  C. conceptually systematic
  D. technological
  D. technological

• Question 105:

  A child's behavior is being reinforced on a VR 8 schedule during intensive teaching. During the sessions, the child begins to get out of the chair. In order to address this problem, the behavior analyst should switch to which schedule?

  A. VR 1
  B. FR 6
  C. FR 8
  D. VR 4
  D. VR 4

• Question 106:

  Behavior analytic interventions that are effective in changing an individual's behavior in a socially important way are said to have:

  A. Parsimony
  B. Social validity
  C. Primary importance
  D. Interobserver reliability
  B. Social validity

• Question 107:

  Teaching a receptive-identification task falls in the category of _____ instruction.

  A. tact
  B. mand
  C. listener D. intraverbal
  C. listener D. intraverbal

• Question 108:

  Clifford's lawn work is steady and up to standard as long as his work is verbally praised approximately every twelfth completed mower circuit. However, at times the crew chief is unable to praise his work at that moment. When praise is not forthcoming, Clifford usually stops working. The best way to facilitate maintenance and generalization of Clifford's work, using a self-management technique, would be to:

  A. have fellow workers provide praise when Clifford stops working.
  B. have the crew chief use a variable schedule of reinforcement.
  C. increase the delay in reinforcement until the afternoon.
  D. teach Clifford how to request reinforcement for the target behavior.
  D. teach Clifford how to request reinforcement for the target behavior.

• Question 109:

  A behavior analyst is conducting research on the accuracy of a student's responding to written math problems based on the final answer with no scoring of intermediate calculations. Which is the BEST method for obtaining accurate inter-observer agreement results?

  A. Researcher and observer sit together to score the student's work.
  B. Photocopies of the student's work are scored independently by researcher and observer.
  C. The student's scratch paper is scored if researcher and observer do not agree on a response.
  D. Researcher scores the student's work and the observer reviews the researcher's scores for accuracy.
  B. Photocopies of the student's work are scored independently by researcher and observer.

• Question 110:

  Carlos participated in a toothbrushing skill acquisition program. When he started the program, he needed physical assistance to perform each step. After two weeks, he met all objectives and was able to complete each step independently. The program involved the use of graduated guidance, praise, and token reinforcement. In the future, the behavior analyst would like to examine which procedures made the program most effective (i.e., guidance, praise, or token reinforcement). To determine this, the behavior analyst could use a

  A. component analysis.
  B. discriminant analysis.
  C. nonparametric analysis.
  D. parametric analysis.
  A. component analysis.