Task List A
During a conference a presenter states that this perspective holds that behavior is a result of individual variables with a history of learning and environmental interactions cause behavior to happen. Also emphasizes the objective measurement of behavior:
A. Parsimony
B. Behaviorism
C. Generality dimension of ABA
D. Applied dimension of ABA
B. Behaviorism
A parent wants their child to start doing chores around the house. As a result, they set up a system where the child receives $1 for every chore they complete and it is tracked on the fridge and paid out at the end of the week. As a result, their child increases the amount of chores they are completing each week. What might explain this type of system:
A. Multiple compound schedule of reinforcement
B. Operant conditioning
C. Tandem schedule of reinforcement
D. Respondent conditioning
B. Operant conditioning
A BCBA wants to describe the strength of a target behavior. Which concept below refers to the strength of a target behavior?
A. Magnitude
B. Topography
C. Temporal Locus
D. Magnus form
A. Magnitude
A student is studying for the BCBA exam and wants to be able to label 15 definitions in 16 seconds. Once they reach that goal they increase it to answering 16 definitions in 60 seconds and continue this process until they can reach 20 definitions or more in 60 seconds. This most likely resembles:
A. Multiple Baseline Design
B. Multi-Element Baseline Design
C. Multiple Treatment Design
D. Changing Criterion Design
D. Changing Criterion Design
A BCBA named Tyra went to high school with Jackson. Jackson has recently pursued his Master's in ABA and has asked if Tyra can be his BCBA supervisor to provide him with supervised hours. Since Tyra and Jackson went to high school together, ethically Tyra can:
A. Not pick up Jackson as a supervisee due to a conflict of interest
B. Not pick up Jackson as a supervisee due to a dual relationship
C. Pick up Jackson as a supervisee if she chooses to
D. Not pick up Jackson as a supervisee due to confounding ethical dilemmas
C. Pick up Jackson as a supervisee if she chooses to
A BCBA uses a functional life skills curriculum to determine that teaching a 32 y/o client how to make a snack is a socially significant goal, which will help improve their life. This is an example of which dimension of ABA:
A. Generality
B. Behavioral
C. Analytical
D. Applied
A. Generality
A BCBA is working in a school and the teacher explains that one of her students tends to speak out during lessons when it isn't appropriate. The teacher says that this behavior is fine sometimes as she has open dialogue and wants the students to participate. The teacher is looking to reduce the behavior and not necessarily get it to zero. What might the BCBA recommend:
A. DRD
B. DRH
C. DRL
D. DRA
C. DRL
A BCBA wants to consider some possible threats to reliability and accuracy. A possible threat would be:
A. Observer drift
B. Observer reactivity
C. Poorly designed measurement systems
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
A BCBA wants to introduce a DRI procedure for a client who engages in self-injurious behavior. The client engages in hand biting and attending a completely empty therapy room with only a desk, chairs, and programming material. What is the independent variable?
A. Hand biting
B. The empty room
C. DRI procedure
D. The client
C. DRI procedure
Joanna, a BCBA, needs Sandra, an RBT, to transport personal health information from their North location clinic to their East location clinic. The clinics are about 45 minutes away from each other. What should Sandra do?
A. RBT's cannot transport personal health information under any circumstance
B. Only BCBA's/BCBA-D's can transport personal health information
C. Sandra must double lock the personal health information to travel with it
D. Only answers A and B are correct
C. Sandra must double lock the personal health information to travel with it
A client has significant impairments across all domains in their life and the mother of the client explains that despite the impairments their child faces, they have never had to teach their child how to chew foods or swallow liquids. What might explain the client possessing these skills:
A. Pathogeny
B. Maturation
C. Phylogeny
D. Ontogeny
C. Phylogeny
An RBT just cannot handle spicy food and results in them getting sick when they do eat spicy food. It starts with a small rumble in their stomach and then a few minutes later they are in the bathroom sick. Their BCBA supervisor ordered Thai cuisine for lunch as a thank you to the staff and the RBT began eating the food and realized it was spicy and got the small rumbling feeling in her stomach. Eating spicy food serves as:
A. CMO-P
B. CMO-R
C. CMO-T
D. CMO-S
A clinic runs a weekend group with clients in a primary group and an intermediate group. Both groups are given independent work systems at exactly 11am. One of the BCBA's on the team checks on group 1 every 5 minutes and scores data on whether every client is seated and checks on group 2 every 7 minutes and score whether every client is seated. This is an example of:
A. Concurrent behavior check
B. Whole interval average 6 minutes
C. PLACHECK
D. Total average duration interval 6 minutes
C. PLACHECK
A BCBA wants to use a reversal design for a client who engages in vocal stereotypy. The intervention will use a DRI procedure to see if they can effectively reduce the vocal stereotypy. Which option below best represents what the BCBA wants to do?
A. A-B-A
B. B-B-A
C. B-A-B
D. A-B-C-A
A. A-B-A
Bryson recently became a BCBA and worked super hard to accumulate the 2,000 supervised hours. Now that he is officially a BCBA, how long should he hold onto the documentation for his 2,000 supervised hours?
A. 5 years
B. 3 years
C. 7 years
D. He can get rid of the documents as he is a BCBA now
C. 7 years
A fitness YouTuber has recently created a weight loss course and decided to incorporate self-management strategies found in the journal of behavior analysis to help clients stay on track and reach their goals. She has replicated exactly what was stated in the literature; however, she is not a BCBC. What paradigm best fits with the information shared:
A. Experimental Analysis of Behavior
B. Applied Behavior Analysis
C. None, she must be reported to the BACB for using ABA and not being a BCBA
D. Practice guided by the principles of ABA
D. Practice guided by the principles of ABA
A RBT teaches a client to label a picture of a dog. Out of nowhere the client then starts calling everything with 4 legs a dog. The client calls a chair a dog, a cat a dog, and a hamster a dog. What type of tact extension is this:
A. Metaphorical extension
B. Generic extension
C. Solistic extensionn
D. Metonymical extension
D. Metonymical extension
A BCBA learns about a new intervention that helps to reduce severe problem behavior. The only issue the BCBA has with the study is that the results do not generalize to other environments and other individuals. It can be said that the intervention does not demonstrate strong:
A. External validity
B. Internal Validity
C. Component validity
D. Extrinsic validity
A. External validity
A BCBA wants to try a DRO with three different clients who engage in aggression. The BCBA achieves a stable baseline across all three clients and introduces the DRO procedure to only client 1 while clients 2 and 3 remain in baseline. The DRO reduces client 1's problem behavior so the BCBA introduces it to client 2 while client 3 remains in baseline. What type of design might this be?
A. Multiple Baseline across Settings
B. Multiple Baseline across Subjects
C. Multiple Baseline across Behaviors
D. Multiple Baseline across Environments
B. Multiple Baseline across Subjects
A BCBA has a client on their caseload whose parents are going through a formal divorce. The BCBA receives a court subpoena in the mail making a request for the client's attendance information which falls in the category of personal health information. Neither parent has given consent to share this information. Ethically the BCBA must:
A. Not share the information unless at least one parent provides verbal consent
B. Not to share the information unless both parents provide verbal consent
C. Not share the information unless both parents provide written consent to release, share, and disclose personal health information
D. Share the information requested in the subpoena
D. Share the information requested in the subpoena
A new BCBA just started at a new adult treatment clinic for criminal offenders with developmental disabilites. During their first day a new BCBA is asked to follow around a BCBA and make notes about what they observed about the clients assigned to their caseload. Given just this information this would best represent:
A. Description
B. Control
C. Prediction
D. An ethical breach regarding consent
A. Description
A BCBA is preparing the team to put an attention seeking behavior on extinction. The BCBA explains that negative attention is reinforcing the problem behavior and that when they no longer provide negative attention the problem behavior is going to increase and they may see new or more intense versions of the problem behavior. This may explain:
A. Negative Punishment
B. Spontaneous Recovery
C. Resurgence
D. Extinction Burst
D. Extinction Burst
A BCBA runs a small group session on the weekend teaching classroom readiness skills but unfortunately was sick so a colleague had to fill in. The BCBA wanted the class to complete worksheets and the colleague had them complete them. The BCBA then scored the worksheets on Monday when they returned to work. What measurement system is the BCBA using for the worksheets?
A. Total frequency
B. Permanent product recording
C. Momentary time sampling
D. Total count
B. Permanent product recording
A BCBA wants to lose weight. They begin lifting weights, eating healthy, and going for jogs and they begin to lose weight. Given time constraints, they want to know which of the three interventions is causing the weight loss. Which analysis would allow them to do this?
A. Parametric Analysis
B. Non-Parametric Analysis
C. Component Analysis
D. Comparative Analysis
C. Component Analysis
When looking at the core ethical principles outlined by the BACB, what would you not expect to see as a core principal?
A. Ensure their competence
B. Benefit the governing bodies of the state
C. Behave with integrity
D. These are all core ethical principles outlined by the BACB
B. Benefit the governing bodies of the state