BCBA EXAM REVIEW (MOCK; 2)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
The levels of understanding science include: - ANSWER Prediction, description, & control.
This involves the repetition of experiments to determine the reliability of things: - ANSWER Replication
This branch of behavior analysis concentrates on the philosophy of the science of behavior. - ANSWER
Behaviorism
This approach to understanding behavior attempts to explain all behavior, including private events. -
ANSWER Radical behaviorism
Which is NOT a characteristic of behavior analysis? - ANSWER - Effective
- Displays Generality
- Technological
- **Conceptually diverse
A behavioral consequence effects the response it follows. - ANSWER False
________ refers to a specific instance of behavior. - ANSWER Response
"Being frightened" qualifies as a behavior since it fits both conditions for an interaction with the
environment. - ANSWER False
Which of the following is NOT a part of the definition for behavioral consequence? - ANSWER - Follows a
given behavior
- Alters the probability of future occurrences of that behavior
- **Rate of the given behavior will increase
,- Is an environmental change
A reflex is a _______ _______ relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior
it elicits (e.g., knee-jerk to tap just below patella). - ANSWER Stimulus-response
A(n) ________ behavior is a behavior that produces indirect benefits to clients by potentially increasing
opportunities for participation in other environments. - ANSWER Access
The preferred method of behavioral assessment to determine which behaviors to target for change is
____________ _____________. - ANSWER ABC Recording
According to Linehan (1977) the purpose of behavioral assessment is to determine: - ANSWER A client's
problem and how you change is for the better.
An anecdotal observation is a form of direct, continuous observation of all behaviors of interest and the
environmental conditions. - ANSWER True
Which of the following is not one of the four methods for obtaining assessment information? - ANSWER -
Interview
- **Ecological assessment
- Testing
- Direct observation
Behaviors that do not naturally produce permanent products can be recorded using: - ANSWER
Videotape or audiotape.
If you are interested in amount of time it takes a student to begin a task after the teacher has given an
instruction you would measure ________ ________. - ANSWER Response latency
One benefit of measurement is that it helps practitioners verify the legitimacy of different treatments. -
ANSWER True
, Which of the following is not an advantage of event recording? - ANSWER - It always takes form of
numerical products
- It's easy
- **Practitioners do not have to observe the behavior as it occurs
- It does not interfere with ongoing activities
Duration recording and latency recording are the same. - ANSWER False
After an intervention is planned, the most _______ observation time should be selected. - ANSWER
Conservative
What is defined as the use of a series of symbols which are used to record the presence or absence of
classes of behavior? - ANSWER Observation code
Observers should receive feedback about the extent to which their data confirm or run counter to
hypothesized results or treatment goals. - ANSWER False
Applied behavior analysts report inter-observer agreement measures during the actual data collection. -
ANSWER True
Observers must learn a common: - ANSWER - Set of decision conventions
- Notation system
- Set of classes of behavior
The horizontal axis is scaled in units of time. - ANSWER True
Experimental control is achieved when a predictable change in an individual's behavior can be reliably
and repeatedly produced by the systematic manipulation of some aspect of the person's environment. -
ANSWER True
Another name for a histogram is: - ANSWER A bar graph.
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