Keep Calm and Pass The BCBA UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
A-B DESIGN - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a two phase experimental design consisting of a
pre-treatment baseline condition (A) followed by a treatment condition (B).
A-B-A DESIGN - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A three-phase experimental design consisting
of an initial baseline phase (A) until steady state responding (or countertherapeutic trend) is
obtained; an intervention phase in which the treatment condition (B) is implemented until the
behavior has changed and steady state responding is obtained, and a return to baseline
conditions (A) by withdrawing the independent variable to see whether responding "reverses"
to levels observed in the initial baseline phase.
#A-B-A-B Design #Reversal Design # Withdrawal Design
A-B-A-B DESIGN - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- an experimental design consisting of (1) an
initial baseline phase (A) until steady state responding (or counter-therapeutic trend) is
obtained, (2) an initial intervention phase in which the treatment variable (B) is implemented
until the behavior has changed and steady state responding is obtained, (3) a return to
baseline conditions (A) by withdrawing the independent variable to see whether responding
"reverses" to levels observed in the initial baseline phase, and (4) a second intervention phase
(B) to see whether initial treatment effects are replicated. (Also called reversal design and
withdrawal design)
ABATIVE EFFECT (OF A MOTIVATING OPERATION) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is
increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation. For example, food
ingestion abates (decreases the current frequency of) behavior that has been reinforced by
food.
ABC RECORDING/ANECDOTAL OBSERVATION - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a form of
direct, continuous observation in which the observer records a descriptive, temporally
sequenced account of all behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and
consequences for those behaviors as those events occur in the client's natural environment
,ABOLISHING OPERATION (AO) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A motivating operation that
decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event. For example, the
reinforcing effectiveness of food is abolished as a result of food ingestion.
ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THEARPY (ACT) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An
evidence-based behavior therapy focusing on general well-being, defined as making reliable
contact with high-priority positive reinforcers.
ACCURACY (OF MEASUREMENT) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The extent to which
observed values, the data produced by measuring an event, match the true state, or true
values, of the event as it exists in nature
#Observed Value #True Value
ADAPTED ALTERNATING TREATMENTS DESIGN - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
variation of the multielement design for comparing the efficiency of instructional procedures.
The comparison phase of the design features the alternating application of two (usually) or
more different teaching methods, each method applied to different but equivalent sets of
instructional items. All items are topographically different members of the same response or
skill class, such as reading printed words, defining vocabulary terms, spelling words,
answering math problems, and stating history facts.
ADD-IN COMPONENT ANALYSIS - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A method for conducting
a component analysis in which components are assessed individually or in combination
before the complete treatment package is presented. The add-in method can identify sufficient
components. Sequence and floor or ceiling effects may mask the effects of components added
in toward the end of the analysis.
ADJUNCTIVE BEHAVIOR/SCHEDULE-INDUCED BEHAVIOR - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic
reinforcement for other behavior; time-filling or interim activities that are induced by
schedules of reinforcement during times when reinforcement is unlikely to be delivered.
AFFIRMATION OF THE CONSEQUENT - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A three-step form
of reasoning that begins with a true antecedent-consequent (if-A-then-B) statement and
proceeds as follows: (1) If A is true,then B is true; (2) B is found to be true; (3) therefore, A is
true. Although other factors could be responsible for the truthfulness of A, a sound
experiment affirms several if-A-then-B possibilities, each one reducing the likelihood of
,factors other than the independent variable being responsible for the observed changes in
behavior.
ALTERNATING TREATMENTS DESIGN - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- multi-element
design
ALTERNATIVE SCHEDULE (ALT) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Provides reinforcement
when the response requirements of any of two or more simultaneously available component
schedules are met.
ANTECEDENT - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An environmental condition or stimulus
change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
ANTECEDENT EXERCISE - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An antecedent intervention,
implemented independently of occurrences of the problem behavior, that usually has clients
engage in some effortful form of aerobic activity (e.g. walking, jogging dancing, calisthenics,
roller skating). Applied behavior analysts have used antecedent exercise in the treatment of
many maladaptive behaviors such as self-injurious behavior (SIB), aggression, and diverse
behaviors such as inappropriate vocalizations, repetitive movements, talking-out, out-of-seat,
and stereotypic behaviors
ANTECEDENT INTERVENTION - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A behavior change strategy
that manipulates antecedent stimuli based on (a) motivating operations (evocative and abative
effects), (b) stimulus control (differential availability of reinforcement), and (c) contingency-
independent interventions (e.g. protective equipment, and restraint).
#Functional Communication Training
# High-Probability Request Sequence
#Noncontingent Reinforcement
Contrast with #antecedent control, a behavior change intervention that manipulates
contingency-dependent consequence events to affect stimulus control
ANTECEDENT STIMULUS CLASS - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A set of stimuli that
share a common relationship. all stimuli in an antecedent stimulus class evoke the same
operant behavior, or elicit the same respondent behavior
#Arbitrary Stimulus Class
#Feature Stimulus Class
, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The science in which tactics
derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior
and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in
behavior.
ARBITRARILY APPLICABLE RELATIONAL RESPONDING (AARR) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- forming new stimulus classes with little or no reinforced practice
ARBITRARY RELATIONS - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Stimuli to which people respond
in interlocked ways, not because of physical similarity, but because social-verbal
reinforcement contingencies teach people to respond to them in this way.
ARBITRARY STIMULUS CLASS - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- antecedent stimuli that
evoke the same response but do not resemble each other in physical form or share a relational
aspect such as bigger or under (e.g., peanuts, cheese, coconut milk, and chicken breasts are
members of this if they evoke the response "sources of protein"
Compare to #Feature Stimulus Class
ARTIFACT - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- an outcome or result that appears to exist because
of the way it is measured but in fact does not correspond to what actually occurred
ASCENDING BASELINE - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A data path that shows an
increasing trend in the response measure over time.
Compare to #Descending Baseline
AUDIENCE - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anyone who functions as a discriminative
stimulus evoking verbal behavior. Different audiences may control different verbal behavior
about the same topic because of a differential reinforcement history. Teens may describe the
same event in different ways when talking to peers versus parents
AUTOCLITIC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The autoclitic relation involves two interlocking
levels of verbal behavior emitted in one utterance. One level is a primary response (e.g., "The
ice is solid"), while the other type is the secondary autoclitic response (e.g., adding "I think").
Autoclitic behavior benefits the listener by providing additional information regarding the
primary response.
