BCBA Online Practice Questions and Answers

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

An extinction procedure involves:

A. withholding all reinforcement.

B. withholding the maintaining reinforcer after the occurrence of the target behavior.

C. removing all attention from the client when the target behavior occurs.

D. removing the SD for the target behavior.

What if you teach the child to swim in a pool and the child goes to the beach and can do the front crawl in the ocean?

A. Stimulus generalization

B. Response generalization

C. Failure to generalize

D. Natural contingencies

For which of the following would it be appropriate to measure duration?

A. Amy responds very slowly to instructions during her discrete trials teaching sessions.

B. Ethan leaves his work station and wanders around the building.

C. Sarah takes so long to begin her math assignments in class that she is never able to finish on time.

D. Ryan is trying to increase the speed of his typing at the computer keyboard.

Which schedule of reinforcement is most effective at maintaining behaviors?

A. Continuous reinforcement

B. Intermittent reinforcement

C. Extinction

D. Ratio

Providing a complete description of one's procedures in a behavior analytic study of classroom management techniques is adhering to which dimensions of behavior analysis?

A. Conceptually systematic

B. Applied

C. Technological

D. Analytic

Gradually transferring stimulus control from prompts to other discriminative stimuli is a process called __________________.

A. Shaping

B. Modeling

C. Maintenance

D. Fading

A __________________ is derived from a descriptive analysis.

A. Hypothesis

B. Statement of causation

C. Data-driven conclusion

D. Hypotenuse

What are the three elements of informed consent?

A. No coercion, approval, voluntariness

B. Capacity, age, voluntariness

C. Informed, age, voluntariness

D. Capacity, informed, voluntariness

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