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Question # 1

Reinforcing "picking up shoe" in a shoe-tying program would be an example of a step inwhich type of training procedure?

A. chaining
B. discrete trial
C. naturalistic
D. shaping

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Question # 2

A behavior analyst for a local group home has a case involving a person who engages inspitting. First, the behavior analyst conducts a functional assessment and takes a week ofbaseline data. An intervention is designed and tested for two weeks. The behavior analystthen implements a brief return to baseline, followed by a return to the intervention. Thisprocess is primarily an example of which fundamental characteristic of behavior analysis?

A. technological
B. empiricism
C. philosophic doubt
D. parsimony

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Question # 3

A behavior analyst has taught a student to look at the teacher when the teacher isspeaking. Later, the student is observed looking at a classmate when the classmate isspeaking. The student looking at the classmate is a result oF.

A. discrimination training.
B. response maintenance.
C. stimulus generalization.
D. response generalization.

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Question # 4

A 4-year-old child is lying in bed at night while the parents are sitting in the living roomtalking to guests. The child begins to make loud noises. In the past, the parents have goneinto the child's room to quiet him. The parents and guests agree to ignore the childcompletely and continue to talk. If the parents stick with this approach and the child stopsmaking noises, the parents have successfully useD.

A. time-out.
B. planned ignoring.
C. extinction.
D. negative reinforcement.

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Question # 5

Which action would MOST likely increase the effectiveness of a punishment procedure?

A. Clearly explain the punishment consequences to the person whose behavior is targetedfor reduction.
B. Eliminate the reinforcement contingency maintaining the target behavior.
C. Ensure that the punisher fits the target behavior.
D. Progressively increase the intensity of the punisher.

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Question # 6

By definition, a data recording system is valid if it:

A. consistently measures the behavior.
B. has demonstrated social validity.
C. has high interobserver agreement.
D. measures what it is supposed to.

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Question # 7

Which is NOT a necessary component of a token economy system?

A. backup reinforcers
B. exchange procedures
C. generalized conditioned reinforcers
D. response cost procedures

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Question # 8

When using time out in a classroom, which of the following should be considered?

A. Escape behavior could be punished.
B. Positive reinforcement for the teacher is likely to contribute to increased duration of timeout.
C. The technique is easily abused and needs to be monitored and supervised carefully.
D. For children who are relatively non-disruptive and for innocuous behavior time out isoptimal.

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Question # 9

When LeRoy sees his father arrive home, he begins to clean his room. Given thisinformation, we can conclude ONLY that the father's arrival is:

A. an antecedent.
B. a discriminative stimulus.
C. an establishing operation.
D. a visual prompt.

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Question # 10

Self-management strategies are:

A. applying behavior analysis principles to change one's own behavior.
B. a method for capitalizing on an individual's will power.
C. primarily used for extinguishing one's own undesirable behaviors.
D. based on personalized systems of instruction.

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Question # 11

Which of the following is an example of a listener response?

A. At dinner time, the client says "fork, please."
B. The client labels "fork" when not instructed to do so.
C. The client repeats the word "fork" throughout the day.
D. Staff says, "pick up your fork," and the client picks up his or her fork.

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Question # 12

A behavior analyst is developing a generalization procedure for a newly mastered response. What strategy should be included in the procedure?

A. positive practice
B. reinforcement
C. limited exemplars
D. self-mediation

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Question # 13

A child diagnosed with autism engages in hand flapping almost continuously at home, daycare and school. An intervention is devised to alleviate this challenging behavior. Whichtype of experimental design would be BEST?

A. reversal
B. multi-element
C. withdrawal
D. multiple baseline

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Question # 14

Abigale is in her preschool classroom where she sees a toy named Elmo on a shelf andthen says, "Elmo." No one drew her attention to Elmo. This is an example of a (n):

A. autoclitic.
B. intraverbal.
C. mand.
D. tact.

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Question # 15

The employees at a group home have not been meeting their supervisor's expectationsconcerning on-time arrival to work. To address this issue, their supervisor implemented anintervention that allows for each staff member who arrives on time for all scheduled shifts ina given week to obtain an extended lunch break on Fridays. What type of intervention was implemented?

A. Contingency contract
B. Dependent group contingency
C. Independent group contingency
D. Interdependent group contingency

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Question # 16

Amanda is evaluating the effects of video modeling on play skills. Her participants oftenshow reactivity when they are observed. The BEST design to evaluate the video modelingis:

A. withdrawal.
B. multiple probe.
C. changing criterion.
D. alternating treatments.

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Question # 17

A behavior analyst has been consulting for a client who repeatedly pushes her knucklesinto her eyes. After conducting a functional analysis, implementing a function-basedintervention plan, and ensuring all staff were thoroughly trained on the interventionprocedures, data indicate the client's behavior has increased over the last month. Whatconsideration is MOST likely to have been overlooked prior to conducting the FA?

A. The behavior may be a symptom of the client's disability.
B. Staff may lack competence for carrying out the intervention.
C. There may be a biological/medical variable affecting the client.
D. The increase in the behavior should have been anticipated due to an extinction burst.

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Question # 18

Robert has been referred because he is losing significant amounts of weight due to refusalof most foods. What should the behavior analyst consider first?

A. possible medical conditions
B. meal content/texture of food
C. caloric content of preferred foods
D. ecological variables during mealtimes

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Question # 19

Which measurement would be MOST useful when evaluating a procedure designed toteach a person to respond at a uniform pace?

A. duration
B. inter-response time
C. latency
D. frequency

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Question # 20

A caregiver says, "Touch your nose." The child accurately touches his nose. The child'sresponse is an example of a (n):

A. tact response.
B. echoic response.
C. listener response.
D. intraverbal response.

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Question # 21

What must happen for an alternating-treatments design to be optimally effective?

A. An additional return to baseline is undertaken.
B. Criterion changes are gradual to ensure compliance.
C. Participants discriminate easily between treatment conditions.
D. Participants engage in multiple problem behaviors.

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Question # 22

A child with an advanced verbal repertoire exhibits aggression when asked to do a newmath problem. In order to address the problem the behavior analyst shoulD.

A. immediately remove the math problem.
B. immediately show him the correct answer.
C. implement a punishment procedure for aggression.
D. teach the child an alternative escape response.

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Question # 23

When implementing punishment procedures, the behavior analyst:

A. must include a reinforcement procedure.
B. can use punishment alone if a reinforcement procedure was not effective.
C. does not have to include a reinforcement procedure if consented to by the client.
D. is required to introduce a reinforcement procedure if the problem behavior increases.

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Question # 24

Responses that are likely to allow access to new reinforcers or environments, producegenerative behavior, and compete with inappropriate responses are calleD.

A. behavioral cusps.
B. component behaviors.
C. prerequisite behaviors.
D. normalized behaviors.

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Question # 25

Specifying the hand with which Linda eats, writes, and works is an example oF.

A. response function.
B. an operant class.
C. a stimulus class.
D. response topography.

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Question # 26

Which is the BEST description of the results obtained during the second session of thebaseline condition?

A. The behavior had an increasing trend.
B. The frequency was 7.
C. The level was low.
D. The behavior was stable.

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Question # 27

A behavior analyst is investigating fixed ratio schedules of praise delivery to determinewhich is most effective for changing the rate of question-asking by a 10-year-old child. Thisis an example oF.

A. an applied analysis of behavior.
B. an experimental social program.
C. a social learning program.
D. a stimulus control program.

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Question # 28

A child touching a hot stove immediately withdraws his hand. In the future, the child avoidstouching the stove. Avoiding the stove is an example oF.

A. establishing operation.
B. operant behavior.
C. punishment.
D. respondent behavior.

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Question # 29

Interval recording provides an estimate of which two measures of behavior?

A. duration, latency
B. frequency, duration
C. frequency, magnitude
D. magnitude, latency

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Question # 30

A teacher's students were asking for individual assistance at a high rate when they wereinstructed to work independently using their textbooks and other resource materialavailable in the classroom. The teacher posted a "No Questions" sign and systematicallyignored the students' questions when the sign was up. The rate of question-askingdecreased to zero. Now the teacher simply puts up the sign whenever the students are towork independently and removes it when the students can ask questions. With respect toasking questions, the sign functions as:

A. a negative reinforcer.
B. an SDp.
C. an S.
D. an SP.

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Question # 31

What determines the amount of change at each step in a changing-criterion design?

A. a 20% change at each step
B. a standard five increment change
C. the function of the behavior to be changed
D. the particular behavior to be changed and its current incidence

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Question # 32

What determines the amount of change at each step in a changing-criterion design?

A. a 20% change at each step
B. a standard five increment change
C. the function of the behavior to be changed
D. the particular behavior to be changed and its current incidence

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Question # 33

At the point in time when non-contingent reinforcement is delivered, the treatment provider is reinforcinG.

A. a behavior in the acquisition phase.
B. all of the student's behaviors at that moment.
C. incompatible or alternative behaviors.
D. the target behaviors.

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Question # 34

When a child is taught to perform a certain behavior in the presence of certain specificstimuli, and not in the presence of other stimuli, this procedure is calleD.

A. discrete trial training.
B. controlling stimulus training.
C. conditioned stimulus learning.
D. stimulus discrimination learning.

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Question # 35

Steven lives in a group home with four other men. Most of his housemates spend aboutequal amounts of time in the living room and the recreation room. Steven spends about75% of his free time in the living room and 25% in the recreation room. Staff observationshave shown that staff attention is very reinforcing for Steven. If the matching law isoperating in this scenario, what is the predicted rate of staff attention to Steven in the livingroom?

A. It is 1/3 of the rate in the recreation room.
B. It is 3 times the rate in the recreation room.
C. It matches the rate of attention in the recreation room.
D. It matches the average rate of attention in the two rooms.

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Question # 36

A behavior analyst is doing some staff training in a facility. The first step is to have the staffread a "How To" manual. The behavior analyst notices that after reading the manual, staffseem to be doing some things specified in the readings, such as giving praise afteradaptive behavior. This is an example oF.

A. backward chaining.
B. contingency-shaped behavior.
C. fading.
D. rule-governed behavior.

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Question # 37

What type of analysis should be conducted to determine the amount of a particular stimulusprovided on any given trial that will serve as an effective reinforcer?

A. behavior analysis
B. component analysis
C. functional analysis
D. parametric analysis

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Question # 38

Which procedure is the MOST reasonable and effective application of incidental teaching?

A. Conduct discrete trial training for signing "eat," "drink," and "help."
B. Conduct training for the student to sign "eat" and "drink" during language classes.
C. Conduct training for the student to sign for items while going through the lunch line.
D. Conduct training to sign for "help" across a variety of environmental contexts.

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Question # 39

Missy has learned that if she is thirsty and wants juice, she says, "Juice" and gets juice.The connection between saying "Juice" and receiving juice is BEST described as:

A. a behavior chain.
B. an establishing operation.
C. a functional relationship.
D. respondent conditioning.

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Question # 40

Interventions designed to weaken a behavior should includE.

A. intermittent punishment of the behavior to be weakened.
B. negative reinforcement of the behavior to be weakened.
C. positive reinforcement of all behaviors other than the behavior to be weakened.
D. reinforcement of behavior that is functionally equivalent to the behavior to be weakened.

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Question # 41

The MOST critical consideration when selecting a behavior change intervention is:

A. availability of competent staff.
B. ease of implementation.
C. increasing a person’s independence.
D. compliance with guardian requests.

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Question # 42

Response prompts are supplementary _________ stimuli that _________ the likelihoodthat the target behavior will be emitted.

A. antecedent, increase
B. antecedent, maintain
C. consequent, increase
D. consequent, maintain

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Question # 43

The BEST definition for head banging would be any instance of Susan:

A. making contact between her head and her hand or her head and any other object.
B. hitting her head with her open hand, closed fist, or another object when others teaseher.
C. repeatedly using her hand to hit her head until there is an observable change in tissuecoloration.
D. making contact with her head using either her hand or another object causing sound thatis audible at a distance of 5 or more feet.

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Question # 44

The best method for identifying potential reinforcers is to usE.

A. peer identified reinforcer preferences.
B. reinforcer inventories or checklists.
C. paired choice procedures.
D. in vivo observation.

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Question # 45

Which of the following would MOST clearly demonstrate a functional relationship?

A. Conduct narrative recordings in various settings. Then compile a sequence analysis.
B. Directly observe environmental events and target behaviors as they normally occur in anunobtrusive manner, in the natural environment.
C. Execute repeated rapid alternations between different environmental conditions. Collectand graph data.
D. Use a scatterplot to both collect and graph data. When sufficient baseline data havebeen collected, complete a pattern analysis.

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Question # 46

A DRO was implemented for a young child with developmental delays to address reductionin the behavior of hair pulling. The child also has excessive levels of nose picking, and skinpicking. Data collection needs to include rates of these behaviors as well due to thepossible effects of behavioral:

A. conduct.
B. contrast.
C. rehearsal.
D. repercussion.

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Question # 47

According to the BACB Guidelines for Responsible Conduct, documenting professional andscientific work is necessary to:

A. prevent litigation.
B. ensure accountability.
C. bill for third-party insurance payments.
D. maintain ongoing contractual relationships.

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Question # 48

Which of the following is an example of conditioned punishment?

A. Larry grabbed for the stimulus materials during therapy and receives a hard hand slap.He is less likely to grab for stimulus materials in the future.
B. A failure-to-thrive baby receives a spray of lemon juice in the mouth after gagging. Sheis less likely to gag, and subsequently ruminate, in the future.
C. A toddler sticks his finger in a power outlet and receives a shock. He is likely to nevertouch an outlet again.
D. Lucy speaks out in class without raising her hand. The teacher reprimands her verbally.Lucy is less likely to speak without raising her hand in the future.

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Question # 49

Why should extinction be used in combination with reinforcement-based procedures?

A. to ensure effectiveness of the extinction procedure
B. to eliminate the need for a punishment procedure
C. to reduce the response effort and resistance to extinction
D. to reduce undesirable effects such as extinction bursts and aggression

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Question # 50

A behavior analyst and others are planning to identify long term outcomes for Mike.Assuming all of the following are relevant to Mike, which is the BEST long term outcome?

A. Mike will learn to play a board game of his choice.
B. Mike will brush his teeth with 60% accuracy within 30 minutes following breakfast.
C. Mike will independently travel and participate in activities with friends.
D. Mike will speak at a level audible to people standing within 2 - 3 feet of him within 30days.

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Question # 51

A change in which of the following could NOT function as a stimulus for triggering anepisode of aggression in a student?

A. noise level of the classroom
B. room temperature
C. teacher's attitude
D. teacher's facial expression

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Question # 52

One benefit of completing a descriptive analysis regarding a student's in-school behavior isthat it:

A. confirms hypotheses regarding functional relationships.
B. frees the classroom teacher from having to spend too much time collecting behavioralinformation.
C. may provide essential information not available through other means.
D. allows the observer and student to develop rapport.

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Question # 53

After saying, "ball," Kelly presents five objects to her student, Bryan. When Bryan selectsthe ball, Kelly delivers a high-preference item. Bryan is learning to:

A. tact objects.
B. match to sample.
C. make a simple discrimination.
D. respond to multiple exemplars.

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Question # 54

When asked by her father to get her glucose tested, Cindy routinely says, "No," and walksout of the room. She eventually returns and takes the test. The time between the requestand Cindy's taking the test is called the:

A. inter-response interval.
B. compliance rate.
C. response interval.
D. response latency.

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