BACB BCABA Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Exam Practice Test

A child with an advanced verbal repertoire exhibits aggression when asked to do a new math problem. In order to address the problem the behavior analyst shoulD.

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:

Response prompts are supplementary _________ stimuli that _________ the likelihood that the target behavior will be emitted.

Jason and Justin sit together and tease one another in class. Often the teasing evolves into Jason and Justin arguing with each other. The FIRST action should be to:

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

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?