Selecting and implementing intervention
What is not a downside to extinction?
A. Extinction bursts
B. It does not teach a replacement behavior
C. It can be very effective
D. Failed extinction is intermittent reinforcement
C. It can be very effective
Task list H
Sandra is a BCBA who is working with an RBT Genevieve. She is using behavior skills training to teach Genevieve how to implement extinction. Sandra, explained why they were using extinction, explained how to use extinction, modeled it for Genevieve and had Genevieve practice it until she demonstrated mastery. What did Sandra do wrong?
A) She should have asked her what she knew about extinction before starting.
B) She did not need to provide Genevieve with a rationale for using BST.
C) She should have explained extinction before providing a rationale.
D) She failed to provide a written description of extinction.
D) She failed to provide a written description of extinction.
BST consists of four parts: instruction (which includes written description), modeling, rehearsal, and feedback.
What are the four most common conditions in a functional
analysis?
A) Play, escape, attention, tangible
B) Play, tangible, attention, alone
C) Play, escape, attention, alone
D) Play, escape, tangible, alone
C) Play, escape, attention, alone
Memorize this! We only test for tangible if we believe the function if tangible.
Jessica's laundry was stolen twice out of her laundry complex's communal laundry room. After the second time it happened,
Jessica stopped doing laundry in the laundry room and now does
laundry at her friends' houses. Jessica's laundry being stolen can be described as?
A) Positive punishment
B) Negative punishment
C) Positive reinforcement
D)Negative reinforcement
B) Negative punishment
Task list G
Natasha is a BCBA who wants to test whether or not using
differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) will disrupt eloping during math lessons. What is DRI in this experiment?
A) Independent variable
B) Dependent variable
C)Confounding variable
D Extraneous variable
A Independent variable
Your intervention is always the independent variable. Behavior is always the dependent variable.
Task list D
Which is the best description of an operationally defined goal?
A) Jalen will stop throwing blocks at peoples' heads.
B) Jalen will not throw blocks for two weeks.
C) Jalen will not throw a block at another person when he is asked to clean up his toys for two weeks.
D) Jalen will not throw a block at another person when he is asked to clean up his toys for 90 percent of opportunities across at last two people over two weeks.
D) Jalen will not throw a block at another person when he is asked to clean up his toys for 90 percent of opportunities across at last two people over two weeks.
Task list H
Ricky was a BCBA who just got approved to supervise RBTs. He put a section on his website about supervising RBTs. A week later he got a call from Sara. He was open and honest about how excited he was to supervise her and that she was his first supervisee. He was so excited, he started providing her supervision right on the spot. They met for three weeks and once they decided it was a good fit, he sent her a formal contract. Did Ricky do something wrong?
A) No, it's a good idea to make sure a supervisee is a good fit for a supervisor before signing a contract.
B) Yes, you cannot solicit potential supervisees online
C) No, you can solicit potential supervisees online
D) Yes, he should have sent her a contract prior to starting supervision
D) Yes, he should have sent her a contract prior to starting supervision.
Brandon engages in very severe behaviors of head banging. In the past, they have resulted in him needing to go to the emergency room for stitches. Raquel his BCBA needs to do a functional analysis (FA) to determine the function of his behavior but does not want head banging to occur during the FA. Which FA will she most likely use?
A) A trial based FA
B) Analysis of precursors
C) Latency based FA
D) Brief FA
B) Analysis of precursors
Valerie is a BCBA working with Jennifer. 5 minutes before her ABA session ended Jennifer threw all of the stimulus they were working with on the floor in order to escape the demands placed on her. Valerie told her to pick everything up. Jennifer screamed for 7 minutes. Since the session was supposed to end already and Valerie had to pick up her son, she asked mom to make sure Jennnifer picked up the items and left. Jennifer's mom had a long day at work and did not want to argue with Jennifer. She just picked up the toys herself and turned the television on for Jennifer. Now Jennifer screams more often to get out of demands. What was the result of Jennifer's screaming behavior?
A) It was extinguished
B) It was reinforced
C) It was punished
D) It was satiated
B) It was reinforced
Task list G
What is the minimum number of treatments in an altering treatment graph?
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4
B 2
You need at least 2 treatments to compare. Ideally you should not have more than 4 although there is no real limit.
Karen is a BCBA working with Jude. Jude always eats bean burritos for lunch. He has a bad habit of throwing them at his teacher. Karen recommends that when Jude throws burritos at his teacher, his lunch is removed and he does not get to eat lunch.
Jude's teacher is in agreement but his mother is opposed to this. What is this intervention lacking?
A) Social significance
B) Social validity
C) Empirical evidence
D) An appropriate punisher
B) Social validity
Social significant means the behavior is important to the individual.
Social validify refers that people in child's life agree to them and are able to carry interventions out.
Task list H
You are a BCBA supervising a clinician at your office who wants to become an RBT. She asked you to complete her RBT competency exam. You notice while conducting her exam, she does not seem to understand the principle
A) Tell her you cannot sign off on her exam and to study more and come back to you.
B) Use behavior skills training to teach her about DTT
until you feel confident in her skills.
C) Sign off on the exam but recommend she study that
topic before taking the RBT test.
D) Advise her to retake the 40 hour training.s of DTT. What would you do?
B) Use behavior skills training to teach her about DTT
After you feel confident about her skills, we can then sign off on it.
Task list I
Kimberly is a BCBA working with Mia. She frequently throws herself on the floor and punches herself in the stomach while making a piercing screeching noise. Kimberly wants to conduct a functional analysis but has limited time for Mia. She speaks to Mia's RBTs and based upon their description of the behavior, she predicts that she does it for attention. She conducts an FA using only an attention and play condition and determines the behavior is reinforced by attention. Why type of FA did Kimberly do?
A) Synthesized FA
B) Brief FA
C) Trial based FA
D) Latency based FA
A) Synthesized FA
This is when you make a prediction and reinforce that and compare it to a play or other condition.
Jessica keeps her living room screen door open for her dog Lucky so that he can enter in and out of the house freely. A fly flies into Jessica's living room while she is teaching a coaching session. Jessica says, "excuse me," takes off her shoe and squashes the fly
on her desk. She then gets up and closes the door. In this question, what purpose is Jessica's shoe serving as?
A) The MO
B) The SD
C) The AO
D) The prompt
B) The SD
The shoe is the SD. The fly is the MO. The fly creates an MO and the shoe is an opportunity to kill the fly.
Task list G
Sam is a BCBA who conducted an experiment and found that
using FCT and a token board was more effective than using a token
board alone but using NCR with the FCT and a token board was unnecessary. What type of analysis did Sam do?
A) Parametric
B) Nonparametric
C) Component
D) Comparative
c Component
Parametric measures how much. E.g. 5 minute break vs 10 minute break.
Nonparametric would be turning an intervention on and off.
Component compares intervention packages.
Comparative compares interventions again each other, can be two or more.
Task list D
Yoenci is a BCBA working with Martha. Martha was engaging in the behavior of throwing her toys off of the desk whenever a demand was placed on her. Yoenci instructed her RBT Sam to allow Martha to request a break with a break card. Initially, it worked very well. Sam no longer allowed Martha's behavior of throwing to get her a break and only reinforced Martha for using the break card. Eventually, over time and without even realizing it, Sam stopped giving Martha a break when she used the break card. This caused the throwing behavior to come back. What happened in this scenario?
A. Extinction
B. Resistance to extinction
C. Spontaneous recovery
D. Resurgence
D. Resurgence
Chris is a BCBA who oversees several RBTS in an ABA classroom. He has noticed that there is often very little data. He setup a formal observation. While Chris was there, his RBTs ran all of the lessons and took data. He suspected this was a result of reactivity and he was not doing their job when he was not present. As a result, he pretended to leave, but actually stayed and watched them from an adjacent classroom through a window without them knowing. Just like he thought, as soon as they left, they were on their phones, looking at magazines and not running any lessons. Did Chris do something wrong?
A) No, informal observations are recommended.
B) Yes, all observations should be covert
C) Yes, all observations should be overt
D) No, the needs of his students come first and he was testing for reactivity.
C) Yes, all observations should be overt
The ethics code does not say all observations needs to be overt, however this is highly recommended for staff morale.
Task list I
Which type of FA analyzes the amount of time between the start of
a condition and when a person engages in a behavior?
A) Latency FA
B) Trial Based FA
C) Brief FA
D) Analysis of the precursors
A) Latency FA
Lesha loves the beach. Every time she is on the beach, she collects shells? What type of conditioned MO is her desire to collect shells?
A)CMO-T
B)CMO-R
C)CMO-S
D)CMO-P
C)CMO-S
Beach has been paired with shells.
CMO-P is not a real thing.
Task list G
Which of the following behaviors would be appropriate to target using a multiple baseline design?
A) Tying shoes
B) Baking cookies
C) Brushing a dog
D) All of the above
D All of the above
These are all skills with multiple steps and cannot be unlearned/reversed.
Task list D
Which is not a potential undesired effect of reinforcement?
A) Collateral effects
B) Reinforcers are always changing
C) Behavior contrast
D) Decreased response effort
B) Reinforcers are always changing
This is a limitation of reinforcement, not an effect.
Collateral effects is when trying to change a behavior, you end up changing a different behavior.
Keyword: effect
Joan is a BCBA who is working with a client who also sees an
occupational therapist. The OT suggests a sensory diet, including sitting in a bean bag and using a weighted blanket. The BCBA does not think this will work but mom insists Joan give it a chance at the advice of the OT? What should Joan do?
A) Do what the OT asks and take data on its effect on your student's behavior to prove them wrong.
B) Refuse to implement the sensory diet. It is outside of your scope of practice.
C) Supply research to show mom and the OT that proves weighted blankets don't work.
D) Ask the OT to train and supervise you on how to properly implement the sensory diet. Use the bean bag and blanket but take data and discontinue its use if it has no impact or a negative impact on behavior.
D) Ask the OT to train and supervise you on how to properly implement the sensory diet. Use the bean bag and blanket but take data and discontinue its use if it has no impact or a negative impact on behavior.
Cooper says we need to collaborate with others and take data. We need to ensure it is not harmful to our learner as well.
Which type of assessment is used for basic information gathering
to determine if ABA services are appropriate.
A) Direct assessment
B) Indirect assessment
C) Ecological assessment
D) Preliminary assessment
D) Preliminary assessment
Janet got into a big fight with her boyfriend. She went to the gym to calm down. When she was finished working out, she went to change and realized she accidentally grabbed her boyfriend's lock and didn't know the combination. Her keys, wallet and clothes were in the locker. She did not want to talk to her boyfriend but had to call him to get the combination. What type of MO was her desire for the
combination?
A)CMO-T
B)CMO-R
C)CMO-S
D)CMO-P
A)CMO-T
Task list G
What type of analysis would you use to determine the number of tokens that are most effective when using a token board?
A) Parametric
B) Non parametric
C) Comparative
D) Component analysis
A Parametric
You are analyzing what number of tokens.
Task list D