Exam 1: Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst

Carlos participated in a toothbrushing skill acquisition program. When he started the program, he needed physical assistance to perform each step. After two weeks, he met all objectives and was able to complete each step independently. The program involved the use of graduated guidance, praise, and token reinforcement. In the future, the behavior analyst would like to examine which procedures made the program most effective (i.e., guidance, praise, or token reinforcement). To determine this, the behavior analyst could use a

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Question 41

Which does NOT increase the effectiveness of punishment?

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Question 42

This graph BEST exemplifies:

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Question 43

Three boys with autism, ages 7-10 years old, served as participants in a study. During baseline, staff used response blocking when five instances of aggression or head-banging occurred within 10 seconds, until attempts ceased for 1 minute. During baseline and treatment, each occurrence of aggression and head-banging was recorded daily and converted to the number of responses per hour. Treatment comprised a differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) schedule coupled with response blocking after every head-banging or aggression. The staff initially applied the treatment to head-banging, while continuing to take a baseline on aggression. After noting treatment effects on head-banging, the staff then applied the treatment to aggression. What is the independent variable?

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Question 44

Teaching a receptive-identification task falls in the category of _____ instruction.

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Question 45

From an ethical standpoint, target behaviors and program goals should be selected

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Question 46

Billy, a 20-year-old male, has the capacity to give consent for treatment. The behavior analyst has developed a program and explained it to Billy. Procedures, benefits, rights, and other information also were shown to him. The one element still needed for informed consent is approval from

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Question 47

When given by a thirsty person in response to the question, "What do you want to drink?" the spoken word "water" is functioning as a (n):

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Question 48

Before recruitment of participants for a research study begins, a behavior analyst needs to:

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Question 49

Jamie frequently falls to the floor and screams at school. Preliminary behavioral assessment data indicate that his tantrums are maintained by attention and escape from demand situations. Jamie's behavior analyst wants to examine precisely how attention and escape conditions affect these behaviors. The behavior analyst does not want to conduct the analysis in Jamie's classroom because she would not be able to control for potentially important factors. Relating to this scenario, which statement is TRUE?

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Question 50

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

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Question 51

Abigale is in her preschool classroom where she sees a toy named Elmo on a shelf and then says, "Elmo." No one drew her attention to Elmo. This is an example of a (n):

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Question 52

In order to decrease the occurrence of an inappropriate behavior effectively, a behavior analyst should simultaneously increase.

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Question 53

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

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Question 54

Steve is a behavior analyst working with staff members who are not implementing programs on a consistent basis. Staff report that the heavy workload interferes with their ability to run the programs consistently. What should Steve do FIRST to address this problem?

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Question 55

Jimmy is watching his favorite Saturday morning cartoon and playing with his train set. The cat walks past him and he pulls its tail. Jimmy's mother takes away one of his train cars. This is an example of.

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Question 56

Harley tells a variety of offensive and inoffensive jokes to coworkers at lunchtime who laugh at all of the jokes, telling Harley that he's funny. When Harley tells jokes at the evening meal to housemates, they complain to Harley about the offensive jokes. If the behavior analyst wants the evening meal with housemates to become an SΔ for Harley's offensive joke-telling, she should instruct Harleys'?

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Question 57

When asked by her father to get her glucose tested, Cindy routinely says, "No," and walks out of the room. She eventually returns and takes the test. The time between the request and Cindy's taking the test is called the:

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Question 58

A person "getting wet" in the rain is NOT considered an occurrence of behavior because "getting wet"

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Question 59

Two responses (such as putting on a sweater and lighting a fire) that produce the same result describe.

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Question 60

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Which does NOT increase the effectiveness of punishment?

This graph BEST exemplifies:

Teaching a receptive-identification task falls in the category of _____ instruction.

From an ethical standpoint, target behaviors and program goals should be selected

Billy, a 20-year-old male, has the capacity to give consent for treatment. The behavior analyst has developed a program and explained it to Billy. Procedures, benefits, rights, and other information also were shown to him. The one element still needed for informed consent is approval from

When given by a thirsty person in response to the question, "What do you want to drink?" the spoken word "water" is functioning as a (n):

Before recruitment of participants for a research study begins, a behavior analyst needs to:

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

Abigale is in her preschool classroom where she sees a toy named Elmo on a shelf and then says, "Elmo." No one drew her attention to Elmo. This is an example of a (n):

In order to decrease the occurrence of an inappropriate behavior effectively, a behavior analyst should simultaneously increase.

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

Steve is a behavior analyst working with staff members who are not implementing programs on a consistent basis. Staff report that the heavy workload interferes with their ability to run the programs consistently. What should Steve do FIRST to address this problem?

Jimmy is watching his favorite Saturday morning cartoon and playing with his train set. The cat walks past him and he pulls its tail. Jimmy's mother takes away one of his train cars. This is an example of.

When asked by her father to get her glucose tested, Cindy routinely says, "No," and walks out of the room. She eventually returns and takes the test. The time between the request and Cindy's taking the test is called the:

A person "getting wet" in the rain is NOT considered an occurrence of behavior because "getting wet"

Two responses (such as putting on a sweater and lighting a fire) that produce the same result describe.

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