Free BCBA Scope and Skills Questions and Answers

Question 1

________________ involves collecting baselines on the same behavior of several persons, preferably in different settings.

Accepted Answer

Multiple-baseline across individual design

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Multiple-baseline across behaviors design

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Alternating treatments design

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Reversal design

Question 2

When using behavioral momentum, behaviors selected for a high-p request sequence should:

Accepted Answer

Be part of the learner's current repertoire

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Be new behavior(s) the learner has to acquire

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Have a very long duration of occurrence

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Be those behaviors with which the learner is not complaint

Question 3

Non-contingent reinforcement involves the presentation of:

Accepted Answer

Stimuli with known reinforcing properties that are delivered on a fixed-time or variable-time schedule independent of the learner's behavior

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Stimuli with unknown reinforcing properties that are delivered on a fixed-time or variable-time schedule independent of the learner's behavior

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Stimuli with known reinforcing properties that are not delivered on a fixed-ratio or variable-ratio schedule independent of the learner's behavior

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Stimuli with known reinforcing properties that are delivered on a fixed-time or variable-time schedule dependent on the learner's behavior

Question 4

Which of the following is not a factor that influences the effectiveness of punishment?

Accepted Answer

Variation

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Immediacy

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Intensity

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Schedule

Question 5

Carr and Lovaas (1983) recommended that practitioners experience any punisher personally before the treatment begins for what reason?

Accepted Answer

It reminds the practitioner that the technique produces physical discomfort

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It reminds the practitioner that it is a sadistic procedure

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It reminds the practitioner that the technique is designed to increase the appropriate behavior of the student

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It allows the practitioner to determine a baseline of discomfort which he/she then increases rapidly as it is administered to the student

Question 6

Which experimental design is most appropriate for evaluating the effect of video modeling on the acquisition of the skills for preparing a meal by adults with developmental disabilities?

Accepted Answer

Multiple probe

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Multiple baselines across behaviors

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Changing criterion

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Delayed multiple baselines

Question 7

Dr. G was a very well-known behavior analyst with a great radio voice.  He was occasionally asked to handle questions about behavior problems on a local radio call-in show.  To make the show lively and interesting, Dr. G  took great pains to remind listeners that what he suggested was backed up by empirical research.  The show's producer prompted Dr. G. to use the caller's name when giving a reply and a warm tone.  He wanted Dr. G to say something like, "I know exactly what you are talking about, and I can understand how you feel".  Dr. G preferred a matter-of-fact approach.  What should Dr. G. do?

Accepted Answer

Try to be "warmer" while maintaining his ethics and not making statements that suggest he knows more about the caller than he does

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Do whatever the producer says so he doesn't get fired

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Continue what he is doing regardless of the outcome

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All of the above

Question 8

_________________is an experimental design in which two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession independent of the level of responding.

Accepted Answer

Alternating treatments design

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Multiple baselines across settings

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Reversal design

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Withdrawal design

Question 9

When a problem behavior has been targeted for reduction or elimination, the behavior analyst must always include a(n) ________ in the intervention plan.

Accepted Answer

Replacement behavior

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Appropriate response

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Pivotal behavior

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Performance criterion

Question 10

The ____________ design consists of an initial baseline phase followed by an intervention phase followed by a return to baseline.

Accepted Answer

All of the above

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A-B-A

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Reversal design

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Withdrawal design