BACB BCBA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

BACB BCBA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 141:

  A child is exhibiting tantrum behaviors. You believe the tantrum is occurring for your attention. You therefore ignore the tantrum until it ceases while continuing daily activities. You note that the tantrums decrease over time. This is an example of:

  A. Positive punishment
  B. Establishing operations
  C. Time-out
  D. Extinction
  D. Extinction

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• Question 142:

  You are designing a treatment program for Susan. Before getting into details, you wish to identify some ultimate outcomes towards which Susan will progress. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate ultimate outcome for Susan?

  A. The variety and diversity of events in Susan's life
  B. Susan's access to reinforcers in the community
  C. The range of interpersonal interactions with others
  D. The convenience of staff with whom Susan works
  D. The convenience of staff with whom Susan works

• Question 143:

  Frequency would be the MOST appropriate measure for which scenario?

  A. The behavior analyst wants to reduce the number of times Jack hits Jill.
  B. Jack wants his employees to increase the number of kits made in one hour.
  C. Jack's parents want him to reduce his persistent hand flapping.
  D. Jill wants to increase her son's compliance with room-cleaning requests.
  A. The behavior analyst wants to reduce the number of times Jack hits Jill.

• Question 144:

  An experimental design that starts with a baseline phase, followed by a treatment phase, then another baseline phase, and ends in the same type of treatment phase is called a (n):

  A. ABA design.
  B. reversal design.
  C. multi-element design.
  D. multiple baseline design.
  B. reversal design.

• Question 145:

  Instruction that focuses on speed and accuracy of responding can BEST be described as promotinG.

  A. frequency.
  B. mastery.
  C. fluency.
  D. precision.
  C. fluency.

• Question 146:

  Missy is using a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate the effects of peer tutoring to teach three students to complete division problems. These three students have had no prior instruction in division. Missy MOST LIKELY chose a multiple probe design rather than a multiple baseline design becausE.

  A. the students' baseline scores will be zero.
  B. the students could not miss class very often.
  C. other extraneous variables may cause their skills to improve.
  D. she is interested in comparing the effects of three interventions at once.
  A. the students' baseline scores will be zero.

• Question 147:

  When setting criteria for behavior change, behavior analysts attempt to implement the simplest mode of intervention necessary to elicit the desired outcome. As such, the identified outcome criteria should be

  A. applied to ecological assessments to generalize skills.
  B. developed prior to the identified intervention.
  C. initially broad in focus with subsequent reduction to a target response.
  D. measured independent of practice effects or reactivity.
  B. developed prior to the identified intervention.

• Question 148:

  A good behavior analyst always does what before authoring a behavior intervention?

  A. Functional analysis
  B. Momentary time sampling
  C. Direct observation
  D. Implements the least aversive, most effective punisher
  A. Functional analysis

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• Question 149:

  Non-contingent reinforcement is this type of intervention:

  A. Antecedent intervention
  B. Consequent intervention
  C. Punishment strategy
  D. Behavioral momentum intervention
  A. Antecedent intervention

• Question 150:

  Three boys with autism, ages 7?0 years old, served as participants in a study. During baseline, staff used response blocking when five instances of aggression or head-banging occurred within 10 seconds, until attempts ceased for 1 minute. During baseline and treatment, each occurrence of aggression and head-banging was recorded daily and converted to the number of responses per hour. Treatment comprised a differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) schedule coupled with response blocking after every head-banging or aggression. The staff initially applied the treatment to head- banging, while continuing to take a baseline on aggression.

  After noting treatment effects on head-banging, the staff then applied the treatment to aggression.

  In this scenario, how was direct replication shown?

  A. Baseline and intervention conditions were included.
  B. A baseline condition was implemented.
  C. A changing criterion design was used wherein the criterion for reinforcement was gradually changed over time.
  D. The intervention was implemented in a staggered fashion across target behaviors after the initial baseline.
  D. The intervention was implemented in a staggered fashion across target behaviors after the initial baseline.