BCBA Online Practice Questions and Answers

This graph BEST exemplifies:

A. clear demonstration of an effective intervention.

B. a decrease in variability due to the intervention.

C. a change in the level between baseline and intervention phases.

D. a change in the trend between baseline and intervention phases.

You are working with a child on teaching swimming. You teach the child to do the front crawl. After a few weeks of teaching, the child is doing both the front crawl and also starts doing the breast stroke. What has occurred?

A. Stimulus generalization

B. Response generalization

C. Failure to generalize

D. Maintenance

What if you teach the child to swim in a pool and the child goes to the beach and can do the front crawl in the ocean?

A. Stimulus generalization

B. Response generalization

C. Failure to generalize

D. Natural contingencies

Jody had an access-maintained tantrum for 14 minutes and it started 3 seconds after she was told, "No." It had been 2 days since the previous tantrum. The latency is:

A. Unknown

B. 2 days

C. 14 minutes

D. 3 seconds

Which characteristic of the response measure shown in this graph changed from baseline during the

intervention phase?

A. level

B. trend

C. rate

D. variability

The matching law states that when responding is reinforced on concurrent VI-20 and VI-50 schedules, the:

A. number of responses will match the number of reinforcers obtained.

B. proportion of responses for each alternative will become equal over time.

C. organism will respond exclusively to the alternative with the highest rate of reinforcement.

D. proportion of responses across the two alternatives will equal the proportion of reinforcers obtained for those alternatives.

Having obtained appropriate consent, a behavior analyst wishes to communicate data to non-behavior analyst colleagues and family of the client. The most appropriate presentation strategy is:

A. standard celeration charts.

B. short video clips of client performance and line graphs.

C. bar graphs comparing client performance to performance of peers.

D. short video clips with a written anecdotal report.

Steve is a behavior analyst working with staff members who are not implementing programs on a consistent basis. Staff report that the heavy workload interferes with their ability to run the programs consistently. What should Steve do FIRST to address this problem?

A. Go to the direct supervisor and request that an incentive system be implemented for all staff.

B. Begin to assess the staff's daily routine in order to identify any time conflicts that might exist.

C. Revise the daily work schedules and routines, with the assistance of the supervisor, so that potential time conflicts can be avoided.

D. Implement additional training for staff that are not able to perform to criterion.

Experimental control is demonstrated in a changing criterion design by a change in behavior:

A. across settings.

B. across individuals.

C. when returning to baseline.

D. to meet predetermined levels.

Imitation training can be made MOST beneficial for clients when it includes a range oF.

A. models.

B. prompts.

C. reinforcers.

D. settings.