Latest Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst BCABA Simulations

NEW QUESTION 1
A behavioral assessment indicates that the problem behavior of a young woman is maintained by others bringing things to her or taking things away following occurrence of the behavior. Since the behavior results in physical injury, the decision to decrease its occurrence has been made. Which is the BEST general approach?

• A. Determine a potential punisher and deliver it following every occurrence of the behavior, but do not provide or remove other things following the occurrenc
• B. Prevent the behavior by physically blocking each respons
• C. Stop providing or removing things following the behavior and allow it to undergo extinctio
• D. Use protective equipment that prevents injury and establish a replacement behavior that results in things being provided to or removed from the woma

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 2
A person "getting wet" in the rain is NOT considered an occurrence of behavior because "getting wet"

• A. does not specify an interaction between an organism and its environmen
• B. can occur under only one, very specific environmental conditio
• C. is a hypothetical construct and cannot therefore meet the criteria for an occurrence of behavio
• D. does not have social or clinical significance in a science of human behavio

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 3
In order to promote generalization in intensive teaching, the behavior analyst shoulD.

• A. teach loosel
• B. use the same S
• C. use few exemplar
• D. teach in the same environmen

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 4
A DRO was implemented for a young child with developmental delays to address reduction in the behavior of hair pulling. The child also has excessive levels of nose picking, and skin picking. Data collection needs to include rates of these behaviors as well due to the possible effects of behavioral:

• A. conduc
• B. contras
• C. rehearsa
• D. repercussio

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5
From an ethical standpoint, evaluation of treatment outcomes should occur through

• A. direct measurement of the individual's behavio
• B. discussion with the interdisciplinary tea
• C. continuous evaluation of program integrit
• D. a system based on randomly monitoring program outcome

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 6
Fara has identified two procedures that have an equal probability of being effective. In order to select the better procedure, she should

• A. choose the procedure that falls within the staff's level of competenc
• B. determine which procedure is most clinically popular based on the rate of use by professional
• C. select the procedure that best utilizes the existing funding strea
• D. use a random number table to rule out bia

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 7
The response rate for this cumulative record would BEST be described as:

• A. a steady stat
• B. increasing tren
• C. decreasing tren
• D. This graph is not a cumulative recor

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 8
What must happen for an alternating-treatments design to be optimally effective?

• A. An additional return to baseline is undertake
• B. Criterion changes are gradual to ensure complianc
• C. Participants discriminate easily between treatment condition
• D. Participants engage in multiple problem behavior

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 9
Post-reinforcement pause is MOST characteristic of which schedule?

• A. continuous reinforcement
• B. fixed ratio
• C. variable interval
• D. variable ratio

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 10
Larry engages in self-injurious behavior which is maintained by automatic reinforcement. This behavior results in abrasions on both of his arms as a result of intense scratching. The behavior analyst decides to have Larry only wear long sleeved shirts as an initial effort to reduce the behavior. This is an example of which type of procedure?

• A. extinction
• B. deprivation
• C. punishment
• D. differential reinforcement

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11
An approach to reducing problem behavior called involves providing reinforcers on a (n) schedule regardless of the occurrence of the problem behavior.

• A. noncontingent reinforcement; interval
• B. differential reinforcement; interval
• C. noncontingent reinforcement; ratio
• D. differential reinforcement; ratio

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 12
All of the following are examples of the use of setting events EXCEPT:

• A. giving consumers choices of which tasks they would like to perform and which reinforcers they would like to receiv
• B. moving activities to locations where maladaptive behaviors are highly unlikely to occu
• C. planning to ignore the target behavior within all environment
• D. prefacing hard tasks with easy task

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
The BEST definition for head banging would be any instance of Susan:

• A. making contact between her head and her hand or her head and any other objec
• B. hitting her head with her open hand, closed fist, or another object when others tease he
• C. repeatedly using her hand to hit her head until there is an observable change in tissue coloratio
• D. making contact with her head using either her hand or another object causing sound that is audible at a distance of 5 or more fee

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 14
Behavioral contracts must includE.

• A. a summary of the functional assessment; the target behavior; and the consequences for its occurrence and non-occurrenc
• B. vocal descriptions of how the behavior is to be measured; the consequences for its occurrence and non-occurrence; the contract manager; and the target behavio
• C. written descriptions of how the behavior is to be measured; when behavior must occur; the consequences for its occurrence and non-occurrence; the contract manager; and the target behavio
• D. a summary of the functional assessment; written descriptions of how the behavior is to be measured; when behavior must occur; the contract manager; and the target behavio

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 15
A behavior analyst is working with an adult client, who is deemed competent. There are multiple potential behavior targets that need to be addressed including smoking cigarettes, nail biting, and compulsive hand washing. As a first goal, the behavior analyst wants the client to focus on eliminating smoking but the client would prefer to focus on nail biting. The behavior analyst shoulD.

• A. develop a self-management plan for eliminating nail biting as this is the preference of the clien
• B. develop a self-management plan for eliminating smoking as this behavior poses a serious health risk for the clien
• C. convince the client to change their first goal to elimination of smokin
• D. refer the client to another behavior analyst as there is a discrepancy in goal setting prioritie

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16
Which of the following would MOST clearly demonstrate a functional relationship?

• A. Conduct narrative recordings in various setting
• B. Then compile a sequence analysi
• C. Directly observe environmental events and target behaviors as they normally occur in an unobtrusive manner, in the natural environmen
• D. Execute repeated rapid alternations between different environmental condition
• E. Collect and graph dat
• F. Use a scatterplot to both collect and graph dat
• G. When sufficient baseline data have been collected, complete a pattern analysi

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 17
As part of evaluating procedural integrity on a school based program, it is important for the behavior analyst to assess the quality of data collected by a teacher.
The BEST method is for the behavior analyst to?

• A. take data on student performance simultaneously with the teache
• B. compare student's self-graphed data to data collected by the teache
• C. compare data collected at the same time by the teacher and another teache
• D. compare her/his observation of a student's performance with data collected by the teacher from an earlier training session with the studen

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 18
The reinforcement schedule that produces a high steady rate of responding is:

• A. F
• B. F
• C. V
• D. V

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 19
The use of an alternating treatments design should be considered iF.

• A. it is important that multiple interventions be evaluated quickl
• B. one needs to evaluate the effects of a single intervention across multiple setting
• C. the results of multiple reversal designs are ambiguou
• D. there is the possibility that the effect of one intervention will influence the effect of anothe

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 20
Before recruitment of participants for a research study begins, a behavior analyst needs to:

• A. obtain consent from participant(s) or legal guardian(s) if necessar
• B. obtain institutional review board approval or equivalent (e.g., an ethics committee).
• C. inform participants of their ability to withdraw from the stud
• D. inform participants about ethical requirements and experimental procedure

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 21
When using an alternating treatments design it is important to randomly:

• A. assign participants to treatment condition
• B. select participants from the population of interes
• C. order treatment conditions presented during each phas
• D. change each criterion leve

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 22
Abigale is in her preschool classroom where she sees a toy named Elmo on a shelf and then says, "Elmo." No one drew her attention to Elmo. This is an example of a (n):

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

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 23
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 24
Elizabeth engages in skin scratching that never occurs when others are present. Additionally, no one has commented on this behavior, and it has occurred undetected by others for quite a long while. Elizabeth hides the scratch marks under clothing. The scratching behavior is MOST likely to be maintained by:

• A. adventitious reinforcemen
• B. social reinforcemen
• C. tangible reinforcemen
• D. automatic reinforcemen

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 25
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 26
Patrick is participating in a toilet training program. For the first several sessions his trainer, Moira, prompted him to go to the toilet and she delivered edibles and praise each time he correctly
voided. Eventually, Moira was able to fade prompts as Patrick began to go to the toilet and void
independently. Which of the following BEST describes this process?

• A. establishing operation
• B. negative reinforcement
• C. shifting from respondent to operant behavior
• D. transfer of stimulus control

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 27
A caregiver says, "Touch your nose." The child accurately touches his nose. The child's response is an example of a (n):

• A. tact respons
• B. echoic respons
• C. listener respons
• D. intraverbal respons

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 28
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 29
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