BCBA Practice Test Questions Updated 180 Questions [Q107-Q126]

NO.107 You are designing a treatment program for Susan. Before getting into details, you wish to identify some ultimate outcomes towards which Susan will progress. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate ultimate outcome for Susan?

NO.108 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:

NO.109 When setting criteria for behavior change, behavior analysts attempt to implement the simplest mode of intervention necessary to elicit the desired outcome. As such, the identified outcome criteria should be

NO.110 Which of the following would not be a type of function of behavior identified during a functional assessment?

NO.111 Behavior that can be directly observed only by the person behaving is called.

NO.112 To address hitting others, two procedures were compared, differential reinforcement of incompatible
behavior and time-out. The outcomes were examined within and across subjects. A withdrawal design was
employed. The BEST response measure to use in this study is frequency of:

NO.113 Which of the following scenarios involves a behavioral contingency?

NO.114 When developing a task analysis, a behavior analyst would first:

NO.115 In behavior analysis, the __________________ is usually __________________.

NO.116 During the hour immediately following meals, Bill asks for more food. Data are collected only during this hour after each meal. Which method of data collection would be MOST accurate?

NO.117 The use of a withdrawal design is LEAST appropriate when:

NO.118 A child with food refusal behaviors accepts one bite out of the ten bites that her caregiver offered. What
measure should be used to record this behavior?

NO.119 Ingrid is attempting to learn to speak English. Her teacher, Rosa, presents pictures of preferred items, states the label in English, and prompts Ingrid to repeat them. Over time, Rosa stops labeling items and begins to present Ingrid with a variety of pictures of the same items. Rosa is trying to promote.

NO.120 Select the best staff training package:

NO.121 An experimental design that starts with a baseline phase, followed by a treatment phase, then another baseline phase, and ends in the same type of treatment phase is called a (n):

NO.122 You are working with a client who finds physical touch to be aversive. When the person is off task, the program calls for you to give a warning by counting to 10; at that point, you gently touch him if he is not back on task. The touch remains until he returns to task. Please note that being touched is aversive for this particular individual. If the person gets back on task during counting, this is an example of:

NO.123 To address hitting others, two procedures were compared. differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior and time-out. The outcomes were examined within and across subjects. A withdrawal design was employed. The BEST response measure to use in this study is frequency of.

NO.124 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?

NO.125 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:

NO.126 Behavior analytic interventions that are effective in changing an individual’s behavior in a socially important way are said to have: