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The questions for BCBA were last updated at Nov 22,2024.
- Exam Code: BCBA
- Exam Name: Board Certified Behavior Analyst
- Certification Provider: BACB
- Latest update: Nov 22,2024
The number of time intervals in a specific period of time during which a response occurs continuously for an entire interval is which measure?
- A . Partial-interval recording
- B . Whole-interval recording
- C . Momentary time sampling
- D . Percentage of occurrence
In behavior analysis, the __________________ is usually __________________.
- A . Independent variable; a measure of behavior
- B . Dependent variable; a measure of behavior
- C . Baseline measure; unrelated to the behavior
- D . Independent variable; implemented before the baseline measure
An experimenter examines the effects of three types of prompts on compliance in a developmentally disabled person.
In this experiment, what is the independent variable?
- A . The location of the environment
- B . The three types of prompts
- C . The level of compliance
- D . The diagnosis of the individual
An experimenter examines the level of noise in a school bus full of children under the following conditions: baseline, rock music, baseline, classical music.
In this experiment, the dependent variable is:
- A . Time
- B . The number of children on the bus
- C . The level of noise
- D . The type of music
A person is asked to make his bed. His caregiver checks 30 minutes later and the bed was made. No one else was present during that time. The caregiver records that the client made his bed even though he did not observe the behavior directly.
The data collection method used is:
- A . Duration recording
- B . Whole-interval recording
- C . Latency recording
- D . Permanent product recording
Talking out in class results in a child losing a star on his star chart. The loss of a star appears to be an attempt to implement a(n) __________________ procedure.
- A . Response cost
- B . Negative reinforcement
- C . Aversion therapy
- D . Errorless learning
A DRI schedule designed to decrease the frequency of running around class and tapping other children on the head involves:
- A . Arranging for the child to earn a reinforcer in the absence of these behaviors
- B . Providing a reinforcer contingent on being on task and sitting quietly in his seat
- C . Changing the seating arrangement of the class
- D . Ensuring the child had breakfast that morning
Gradually transferring stimulus control from prompts to other discriminative stimuli is a process called __________________.
- A . Shaping
- B . Modeling
- C . Maintenance
- D . Fading
Requiring a student who disrupts the class by throwing papers and tipping over chairs to clean the mess up and then clean the rest of the room by sweeping and cleaning desktops is a(n) __________________ procedure.
- A . Negative reinforcement
- B . Negative punishment
- C . Positive punishment
- D . Extinction
The specific, or technical, name for the type of procedure used in the above question is:
- A . Restitution
- B . Stimulus shaping
- C . Over-correction
- D . Corporal punishment