FIT BCBA MOCK EXAM 2025 LATEST EXAM
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A 7-year-old leaves his bedroom at night and goes to sleep in the
family home's living room on the couch. The parents want their
son sleeping in his own room and bed. The parents determine
that their son is doing this because his room is bright at night due
to the brightly lit restaurant signs across the street from the home.
What would be the most practical course of action the parents
could do to attempt to decrease this behavior of sleeping on the
couch in the living room?
A)Installing door alarms on his bedroom door
B)Contacting a behavior analyst to have her conduct a functional
analysis
C)Putting up blinds in the windows of the child's bedroom and
making sure all sources of light in the room are turned off
D)Setting up a token economy where every hour the child stays in
his room, he earns a token Correct Answer C
A behavior analyst begins working with a client who has several
target behaviors. Which one of his problem behaviors would be
considered the MOST important to address immediately?
A)Setting fires. He has done this twice but it has not occurred in
13 years.
B)Visual self-stimulatory behavior of looking up at the ceiling
lights. He engages in this behavior 4 hours per day, on average,
and it gets in the way of him interacting with peers and performing
tasks at home and school.
C)Self-induced vomiting. He has made himself vomit in the past 1
time per month on average. It typically occurs in the morning
before breakfast.
,D)Pica. He swallowed a coin when he was a toddler but has not
engaged in pica since.Correct Answer B
A behavior analyst wants to begin using generalized conditioned
reinforcers with her client. She believes this will help decrease the
likelihood that her client will become satiated on a particular
reinforcer. Which of the following stimuli can be used as a
generalized conditioned reinforcer?
A)Saying, "Well done."
B)A thumbs up
C)Coins
D)(All of the above) Correct Answer D
Jillian is travelling to see the Eiffel Tower in France. She did not
know how to speak French before she arrived there. When she
arrives, she is taught to say, "Salut" when someone waves to her.
Then, without being taught, she begins waving to people when
they say, "Salut." What type of stimulus equivalence is this an
example of?
A)Reversibility
B)Transitivity
C)Reflexivity
D)Symmetry Correct Answer D
When delivering edible reinforcement to a client, it is important to
deliver social praise at the same time because:
A)it shows other clients what responses they can engage in to
receive edible reinforcement.
B)it can establish social praise as a reinforcer itself, which is
easier to deliver than tangible reinforcers.
C)it can be traded in for secondary reinforcers such as more food.
D)(None of the above)Correct Answer B
Which behavior is a behavior analyst most likely to track?
,A)How many scary thoughts his client has when he puts his hand
over his eyes
B)The number of times the client puts his hand over his eyes
C)The posters of violent video game characters on the client's
bedroom walls
D)The name of the vitamins the client's mother gives him each
morningCorrect Answer B
You have developed a new intervention strategy to teach 3
children how to independently pack their own lunch in the morning
for school. You want to use a multiple baseline across subjects
design but you don't have the time to track the behavior of all 3
kids every single day, especially since the ones who haven't
started the intervention will likely still not be able to pack their
lunch independently. What experimental design would be most
beneficial in this situation?
A)A brief multiple baseline design
B)A multiple baseline across settings design
C)A multiple probe design
D)An A-B-A-B reversal design Correct Answer C
Travis, a behavior analyst, accepts a referral for a new client.
Shortly after, he identifies that he will need to conduct a functional
behavior assessment due to a frequent behavior that the parents
would like reduced. What can the conducted functional behavior
assessment tell Travis?
A)if a particular intervention is effective.
B)which interventions could worsen the target behavior.
C)the function of the target behavior.
D)(All of the above) Correct Answer D
In order to identify a punishing stimulus that can be used during a
punishment procedure, a BCBA® first presents items non-
contingently to the client and records the number of times the
client moves away from that particular item. This is an example of:
, A)A stimulus avoidance punisher assessment
B)A brief punisher assessment
C)An activity punisher assessment
D)(None of the above) Correct Answer A
Which of the following statements regarding self-management is
TRUE?
A)A person does not have to deliver his own reinforcement or
punishment. Someone else can do this for them.
B)Someone has to deliver the reinforcement or punishment to the
person who is using self-management.
C)A person cannot deliver punishment to themselves.
D)(None of the above) Correct Answer A
You are performing a functional analysis of shouting behavior that
lasts an average of 3 seconds with a range of 12-26 seconds
between each response. The functional analysis reveals that the
shouting happens at relatively high rates in all conditions except
the demand. What is the most likely function of this problem
behavior?
A)Escape
B)Automatic reinforcement
C)Access to tangibles
D)(All of the above) Correct Answer B
You are a behavior analyst leaving your current company that has
given you the opportunity to work with several dozen different
clients over the span of a few years. You plan to work for a new
company in another state that has offered you a job working as a
behavior analyst. How long should you keep your client's records
from the time of termination of your services with them?
A)7 years
B)7 months
C)Until the behavior analyst no longer works with that client
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