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Board Certified Behavior Analyst Certification Sample Questions and Practice Exam
NEW QUESTION 41
When developing a task analysis, a behavior analyst would first:
- A. conduct a functional assessment of the target skills.
- B. assess the mastery level of the individual.
- C. determine the necessary component steps.
- D. observe the individual to collect baseline data.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 42
You are teaching David to clean the workshop to prepare him for working on the cleaning crew. Read the descriptions below and identify which is LEAST likely to promote generalization of the workshop cleaning skills to real-life cleaning jobs.
- A. Make the workshop distinctive from the cleaning crew and then gradually make it more like it
- B. Teach David to use a checklist, which could be used on the cleaning crew
- C. Make the workshop as much like a real cleaning situation as possible
- D. Transition to variable, delayed reinforcement
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 43
What best defines a discriminative stimulus?
- A. It is defined by its effect on behavior.
- B. It is any change in the environment.
- C. It is established using either operant or respondent procedures.
- D. It always elicits a response.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 44
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 teacher.
- B. compare student's self-graphed data to data collected by the teacher.
- C. compare her/his observation of a student's performance with data collected by the teacher from an
earlier training session with the student. - D. compare data collected at the same time by the teacher and another teacher.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 45
Which schedule of reinforcement is most effective at maintaining behaviors?
- A. Continuous reinforcement
- B. Intermittent reinforcement
- C. Extinction
- D. Ratio
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 46
In order to evoke a mand for "cookie," the behavior analyst should.
- A. show the child a picture of a cookie.
- B. say "cookie" and praise repeating the word.
- C. give the child a cookie.
- D. deprive the child of cookies.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 47
Placing a request that a child is least likely to perform at the end of a series of requests that the child is
most likely to perform is a phenomenon known as:
- A. Mediated transfer
- B. Errorless learning
- C. The Premack principle
- D. High-probability request sequence
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 48
One of the MOST important reasons for writing a precise definition of behavior is that a precise definition:
- A. increases the likelihood that the behavior of interest will be reliably detected by observers or measurement equipment.
- B. produces greater interobserver agreement and requires less training time for observers.
- C. makes calibration checks of observers or measurement equipment less necessary.
- D. allows for easier and more reliable quantification of temporal locus and temporal extent.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 49
Which is the best definition of a behavior function?
- A. How the child feels concerning his or her own behavior
- B. The reinforcers that maintain a behavior
- C. What the teacher believes the reinforcer should be for the child
- D. How the behavior controls antecedents
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 50
Once a stimulus has been determined to function as a reinforcer in a particular contingency, which of the
following is likely to be true?
- A. The reinforcer should be used with others in the immediate environment.
- B. The reinforcer should be adjusted to vary during the observation period.
- C. The effect of the reinforcer may strengthen with relevant deprivation.
- D. The effect of the reinforcer will weaken if a variable interval schedule is used.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 51
The systematic presentation and examination of information in an ABC format, where A represents the
antecedent stimuli, B represents the behavior, and C represents the consequences following the behavior,
is called:
- A. a functional analysis.
- B. a consequence analysis.
- C. a response analysis.
- D. a descriptive assessment.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 52
The purpose of including untaught items or tasks within a Discrete Trial Instruction program is to assess:
- A. generalization.
- B. mastery.
- C. context.
- D. fluency.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 53
The behavior analyst reviews Sandra's data and concludes that her behavior is spontaneous; that is, it occurs randomly, and not as a result of any other event(s).
Which of the assumptions underlying behavior analysis has been violated in this interpretation?
- A. philosophic doubt
- B. determinism
- C. empiricism
- D. parsimony
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 54
In a token economy, what type of reinforcers are the tokens themselves?
- A. conditional reinforcers
- B. unconditional reinforcers
- C. generalized conditioned reinforcers
- D. generalized unconditioned reinforcers
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 55
If a client exhibits problem behaviors throughout the day and evenings regardless of what is going on in the environment and what activities he/she is participating in, which would be the BEST way to reduce the high frequency and increase latency?
- A. Use a differential reinforcement procedure for the absence of problem behaviors for an amount of time with a high magnitude reinforcer as a reward.
- B. Use a fixed ratio reinforcer every time he/she exhibits appropriate behavior.
- C. Use a low magnitude punishment procedure every time he/she exhibits the problem behavior.
- D. Use a high magnitude punishment procedure every time he/she exhibits the problem behavior.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 56
Which situation is the BEST example of contingency-shaped behavior?
- A. Jennifer sees a candy bar and she mands for it. Jennifer's sister gives her the candy bar and she eats it.
- B. Dean is able to change the scale on a computerized graph after reading "how to" instructions.
- C. Billy's mother tells him not to touch the stove because he could burn himself. Billy does not touch the stove.
- D. A task analysis is used to teach Lilly how to clean her room.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 57
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