All About Certified BCABA Training Materials

NEW QUESTION 1
Reinforcing "picking up shoe" in a shoe-tying program would be an example of a step in which type of training procedure?

• A. chaining
• B. discrete trial
• C. naturalistic
• D. shaping

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 2
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 wor
• B. Photocopies of the student's work are scored independently by researcher and observe
• C. The student's scratch paper is scored if researcher and observer do not agree on a respons
• D. Researcher scores the student's work and the observer reviews the researcher's scores for accurac

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3
Billy, a 20-year-old male, has the capacity to give consent for treatment. The behavior analyst has developed a program and explained it to Billy. Procedures, benefits, rights, and other information also were shown to him. The one element still needed for informed consent is approval from

• A. Bill
• B. clinical review committe
• C. human rights committe
• D. Billy's parent

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
Which does NOT increase the effectiveness of punishment?

• A. availability of alternative responses
• B. inability to avoid the punisher
• C. intermittent delivery of the punisher
• D. reinforcement frequency for alternative behavior

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 5
A behavior analyst for a local group home has a case involving a person who engages in spitting. First, the behavior analyst conducts a functional assessment and takes a week of baseline data.
An intervention is designed and tested for two weeks. The behavior analyst then implements a brief return to baseline, followed by a return to the intervention. This process is primarily an example of which fundamental characteristic of behavior analysis?

• A. technological
• B. empiricism
• C. philosophic doubt
• D. parsimony

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6
A teacher gives a student a piece of paper and asks him to draw a picture. To request a crayon, the student looks at the teacher and says, "Crayon." In response to this, the teacher replies, "Say, 'Crayon please'." The student complies with the request and the teacher gives them a crayon. This exchange is an example oF.

• A. coincidental teachin
• B. incidental teachin
• C. precision teachin
• D. vicarious teachin

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 7
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

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 8
Available resources, applicable federal and state laws, programmatic costs, and a person's
adaptive skills, learning history, and personal interests should all be considered as part of the
process oF.

• A. collecting empirical dat
• B. conducting a baseline of target behavior
• C. manipulating ecological factor
• D. prioritizing goals and objective

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9
A behavior analyst is asked to provide direct services requiring daily 1:1 interaction with a teen- aged client. The client does not speak but can communicate fluently using sign language. The behavior analyst knows some sign language but is not fluent. The BEST approach to this situation would be to

• A. explain his level of competence in sign language to the family before beginning servic
• B. hire a sign language interpreter to attend the session
• C. attend a workshop in sign language prior to beginning servic
• D. refer the family to a behavior analyst fluent in sign languag

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
A child diagnosed with autism engages in hand flapping almost continuously at home, day care and school. An intervention is devised to alleviate this challenging behavior. Which type of experimental design would be BEST?

• A. reversal
• B. multi-element
• C. withdrawal
• D. multiple baseline

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
Jim is preparing his doctoral dissertation in applied behavior analysis for publication in a scientific journal. The editors, in their instructions sent to authors, have indicated that all of the procedures employed in the study must be thoroughly described in order for the article to be accepted. Which dimension of applied behavior analysis BEST supports this requirement?

• A. analytic
• B. behavioral
• C. conceptually systematic
• D. technological

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12
Missy has learned that if she is thirsty and wants juice, she says, "Juice" and gets juice. The connection between saying "Juice" and receiving juice is BEST described as:

• A. a behavior chai
• B. an establishing operatio
• C. a functional relationshi
• D. respondent conditionin

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
When demands are placed on Raoul, he is often observed to hit his head, bite his hand, or slap the therapist. These behaviors are reinforced by termination of the demands. Taken together, these behaviors comprise

• A. an establishing operatio
• B. a functional response clas
• C. respondent behavior
• D. a topographical response clas

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 14
Amanda is evaluating the effects of video modeling on play skills. Her participants often show reactivity when they are observed. The BEST design to evaluate the video modeling is:

• A. withdrawa
• B. multiple prob
• C. changing criterio
• D. alternating treatment

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 15
Tommy is looking at a photo album with his dad. He looks at his dad and then points to a picture of his mom and says, "Mommy." This is an example oF.

• A. a tac
• B. transitivit
• C. receptive languag
• D. matching to sampl

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16
What could be done to clarify the differentiation in the frequency of aggression among the
What measure should be used to record this behavior?environments shown in this graph?

• A. Use an equal interval grap
• B. Record data for an entire wee
• C. Include more environments along the horizontal axi
• D. Change the vertical axis so that the range is zero to twent

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 17
One of the basic requirements for staff training is that the:

• A. completion of training should be based on the demonstrated competency of the staf
• B. skills should be measured only upon the completion of trainin
• C. training should be accomplished by observation followed by a question-and-answer sessio
• D. underlying competency-based principles should be taugh

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 18
Which of the following could NOT function as an unconditioned punisher?

• A. a bitter taste
• B. social disapproval
• C. excessive stimulation
• D. physical restraint

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 19
From an ethical standpoint, target behaviors and program goals should be selected

• A. by service providers and staff members who are knowledgeable of the consumer's need
• B. by the consumer or their representative in consultation with an interdisciplinary tea
• C. so that they ultimately facilitate transition to independent livin
• D. that most closely adhere to the standards of the communit

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 20
Which verbal operants are most crucial in the development of vocal speech?

• A. intraverbals and tacts
• B. echoics and mands
• C. mandsand intraverbals
• D. tacts and echoics

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 21
Which is NOT a characteristic of applied behavior analysis?

• A. describing behavior in a way that can be objectively measured
• B. precisely describing procedures and the rationales for using them
• C. an emphasis on the current function of the behavior in question
• D. reliably determining the variables that initially caused the behavior

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 22
The behavior analyst has had good results with an intervention she designed that makes access to video games contingent upon playing with other children. She now wants to compare the effects of differing amounts of video game access time. She should conduct a

• A. changing criterion stud
• B. nonparametric stud
• C. parametric stud
• D. reversal stud

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 23
Which of the following measures would be the MOST appropriate for reporting head banging
during each 5-minute interval of work?

• A. duration of head banging
• B. latency from a request to the first response
• C. rate of head banging
• D. inter-response time

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 24
Mr. Myers asks Susan what her favorite food is. Susan answers, "Spaghetti." This is an example of a (n):

• A. autocliti
• B. intraverba
• C. man
• D. tac

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 25
When asked by her father to get her glucose tested, Cindy routinely says, "No," and walks out of the room. She eventually returns and takes the test. The time between the request and Cindy's taking the test is called the:

• A. inter-response interva
• B. compliance rat
• C. response interva
• D. response latenc

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 26
A behavior analyst is developing a generalization procedure for a newly mastered response. What strategy should be included in the procedure?

• A. positive practice
• B. reinforcement
• C. limited exemplars
• D. self-mediation

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 27
To change the occurrence of hitting others, two procedures were compareD. differential
reinforcement of incompatible behavior and time-out. The outcomes were examined within and
across subjects. A withdrawal design was employed. An independent variable in this study was:

• A. aggressio
• B. frequency across phase change
• C. return to baselin
• D. time-out from reinforcemen

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 28
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