NEW QUESTION 1
The employees at a group home have not been meeting their supervisor's expectations concerning on-time arrival to work. To address this issue, their supervisor implemented an intervention that allows for each staff member who arrives on time for all scheduled shifts in a 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

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
Amanda is evaluating the effects of video modeling on play skills. Her participants often show reactivity when they are observed. The BEST design to evaluate the video modeling is:

• A. withdrawa
• B. multiple prob
• C. changing criterio
• D. alternating treatment

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3
Before recruitment of participants for a research study begins, a behavior analyst needs to:

• A. obtain consent from participant(s) or legal guardian(s) if necessar
• B. obtain institutional review board approval or equivalent (e.g., an ethics committee).
• C. inform participants of their ability to withdraw from the stud
• D. inform participants about ethical requirements and experimental procedure

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4
When a child is taught to perform a certain behavior in the presence of certain specific stimuli, and not in the presence of other stimuli, this procedure is calleD.

• A. discrete trial trainin
• B. controlling stimulus trainin
• C. conditioned stimulus learnin
• D. stimulus discrimination learnin

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 5
Data were collected on the percentage of intervals at the end of which Thomas was present at his workstation. Which is the BEST method for displaying these data?

• A. cumulative record
• B. equal-interval line graph
• C. scatterplot
• D. standard behavior (semilogarithmic) chart

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6
What must happen for an alternating-treatments design to be optimally effective?

• A. An additional return to baseline is undertake
• B. Criterion changes are gradual to ensure complianc
• C. Participants discriminate easily between treatment condition
• D. Participants engage in multiple problem behavior

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7
A behavior analyst has been consulting for a client who repeatedly pushes her knuckles into her eyes. After conducting a functional analysis, implementing a function-based intervention plan, and ensuring all staff were thoroughly trained on the intervention procedures, data indicate the client's behavior has increased over the last month. What consideration is MOST likely to have been overlooked prior to conducting the FA?

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

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8
To increase the likelihood of beginning a difficult task:

• A. arrange a reinforcer for its completio
• B. do several easy tasks firs
• C. arrange for periodic reminder
• D. establish a deadline for completio

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 9
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

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
To facilitate errorless learning, begin witH.

• A. backward chainin
• B. fading stimulus prompt
• C. forward chainin
• D. response prompt

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 11
Identifying the steps involved in evacuating the group home during a fire drill is an example of a (n):

• A. interdependent group contingenc
• B. chaining procedur
• C. intervention pla
• D. task analysi

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12
Carlos participated in a toothbrushing skill acquisition program. When he started the program, he needed physical assistance to perform each step. After two weeks, he met all objectives and was able to complete each step independently. The program involved the use of graduated guidance, praise, and token reinforcement. In the future, the behavior analyst would like to examine which procedures made the program most effective (i.e., guidance, praise, or token reinforcement). To determine this, the behavior analyst could use a

• A. component analysi
• B. discriminant analysi
• C. nonparametric analysi
• D. parametric analysi

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 13
When using an alternating treatments design it is important to randomly:

• A. assign participants to treatment condition
• B. select participants from the population of interes
• C. order treatment conditions presented during each phas
• D. change each criterion leve

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14
Adherence to "procedural integrity" promotes generalization by facilitatinG.

• A. normalizatio
• B. ethical treatment of consumer
• C. consistency of instructio
• D. spontaneous changes in intervention procedure

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 15
A reliable measure is one that is:

• A. socially valid as indicated by caregiver report
• B. effective as evidenced by peer-reviewed journal article
• C. trusted to be practical and to produce accurate dat
• D. consistent across observers and measurement occasion

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 16
Sammy is having a difficult time completing his independent math worksheet on two-digit division. He is frustrated and doesn't understand how to solve the equations.
Sammy raises his hand and asks for "help." The teacher assists Sammy. Sammy's asking for "help" is?

• A. receptive languag
• B. an intraverba
• C. an autocliti
• D. a man

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 17
The PRIMARY advantage of using a multiple baseline design across subjects is that:

• A. an intervention may be applied to more than one individua
• B. experimental control can be demonstrated without a reversa
• C. it is the most effective method for establishing functional relation
• D. more individuals benefit from the effects of an interventio

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 18
Specifying the hand with which Linda eats, writes, and works is an example oF.

• A. response functio
• B. an operant clas
• C. a stimulus clas
• D. response topograph

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 19
Mrs. Carr's 4-year-old son, Jack, often interrupted her and asked her to play with him. Mrs. Carr would tell Jack that she would play later, but she often followed him and played for a few minutes. On a very busy day, Mrs. Carr told Jack that she could not play with him. Jack began to cry and ran out of the room. Mrs. Carr followed him, calmed him down, and played for a few minutes. This pattern was repeated several times so Mrs. Carr decided to be firm with Jack and to ignore future interruptions. The next day Jack came in sobbing and screaming, “Play now!” Mrs. Carr gave in and played with him. The most likely explanation for Jack’s increasingly disruptive behavior is that:

• A. Mr
• B. Carr has used respondent conditioning to train Jack to scream for attentio
• C. Jack is experiencing an extinction burst which will cease shortl
• D. Mr
• E. Carr has accidentally shaped a more intense interrupting behavior from Jac
• F. Mr
• G. Carr has negatively reinforced Jack’s interrupting because he stops screaming when played wit

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 20
One benefit of completing a descriptive analysis regarding a student's in-school behavior is that it:

• A. confirms hypotheses regarding functional relationship
• B. frees the classroom teacher from having to spend too much time collecting behavioral informatio
• C. may provide essential information not available through other mean
• D. allows the observer and student to develop rappor

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 21
Which is the BEST description of the results obtained during the second session of the baseline condition?

• A. The behavior had an increasing tren
• B. The frequency was 7.
• C. The level was lo
• D. The behavior was stabl

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 22
All of the following are examples of the use of setting events EXCEPT:

• A. giving consumers choices of which tasks they would like to perform and which reinforcers they would like to receiv
• B. moving activities to locations where maladaptive behaviors are highly unlikely to occu
• C. planning to ignore the target behavior within all environment
• D. prefacing hard tasks with easy task

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 23
A stimulus is defined as

• A. a change in behavior brought about by alterations of the physical environmen
• B. a change in the environment that can affect behavio
• C. a change in the environment that elicits a response with or without prior conditionin
• D. any environmental event exclusive of private event

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 24
Intraverbal behavior is controlled by A.

• A. verbal stimulus; the behavior does not match that stimulus; and the reinforcer is non-specifi
• B. verbal stimulus; the behavior matches that stimulus; and the reinforcer is specifi
• C. verbal stimulus; the behavior matches that stimulus; and the reinforcer is non-specifi
• D. verbal stimulus; the behavior does not match that stimulus; and the reinforcer is specifi

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 25
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 choic
• B. Mike will brush his teeth with 60% accuracy within 30 minutes following breakfas
• C. Mike will independently travel and participate in activities with friend
• D. Mike will speak at a level audible to people standing within 2 - 3 feet of him within 30 day

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 26
As part of evaluating procedural integrity on a school based program, it is important for the behavior analyst to assess the quality of data collected by a teacher.
The BEST method is for the behavior analyst to?

• A. take data on student performance simultaneously with the teache
• B. compare student's self-graphed data to data collected by the teache
• C. compare data collected at the same time by the teacher and another teache
• D. compare her/his observation of a student's performance with data collected by the teacher from an earlier training session with the studen

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 27
The teachers have identified bullying as a problem behavior for a particular student. What should the behavior analyst do next?

• A. Raise awareness of the impact of bullying by holding a school-wide discussio
• B. Collect information about the frequency and duration of the behavio
• C. Develop an operational definition of the behavio
• D. Conduct a functional analysis of bullyin

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 28
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