BACB BCABA Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Exam Practice Test

Elizabeth engages in skin scratching that never occurs when others are present. Additionally, no one has commented on this behavior, and it has occurred undetected by others for quite a long while. Elizabeth hides the scratch marks under clothing. The scratching behavior is MOST likely to be maintained by:

A child diagnosed with autism engages in hand flapping almost continuously at home, day care and school. An intervention is devised to alleviate this challenging behavior. Which type of experimental design would be BEST?

What determines the amount of change at each step in a changing-criterion design?

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

A reversal design does NOT permit an evaluation of an intervention for:

A behavior analyst is developing a generalization procedure for a newly mastered response. What strategy should be included in the procedure?

Mark is a 28-year-old man with multiple physical disabilities. The doctor and physical therapist have recommended a variety of positions to benefit Mark's overall health. When Mark is placed in a prescribed position, he yells, arches his back, and bites his wrist. Subsequently, Mark slips out of position. The behavior analyst seeks to help Mark tolerate his positions. Which statement BEST defines a treatment goal?