Question 1

A teacher says: "Everyone, you have math homework tonight. Tomorrow, I will draw a name from a hat. If that person has completed his or her homework and remembered to bring it back to school, everyone will get extra recess."  What type of group contingency is this?

Accepted Answer

A)  This is not a group contingency 
B)  Independent group contingency 
C)  Interdependent group contingency 
D)  Dependent group contingency

Question 2

What are the three elements of informed consent?

Accepted Answer

A)  No coercion, approval, voluntariness 
B)  Capacity, age, voluntariness 
C)  Informed, age, voluntariness 
D)  Capacity, informed, voluntariness

Question 3

You are teaching David to clean the workshop to prepare him for working on the cleaning crew.  Read the descriptions below and identify which is LEAST likely to promote generalization of the workshop cleaning skills to real-life cleaning jobs.

Accepted Answer

A)  Make the workshop as much like a real cleaning situation as possible 
B)  Transition to variable, delayed reinforcement 
C)  Teach David to use a checklist, which could be used on the cleaning crew 
D)  Make the workshop distinctive from the cleaning crew and then gradually make it more like it

Question 4

When asked why a certain behavior happened, the behavior analyst states that the behavior "came out of nowhere."  If the behavior analyst meant what he said, he is violating the assumption of __________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Philosophical doubt 
B)  Determinism 
C)  Technological 
D)  Being conceptually systematic

Question 5

A child who learns to say "red" when presented with a red card, also says "red" when presented with an orange card.  This is called:

Accepted Answer

A)  Stimulus generalization 
B)  Response generalization 
C)  Discrimination 
D)  Failure to generalize

Question 6

If a behavior analyst states, "It took four attempts, but Johnny completed the puzzle," she is using which measure?

Accepted Answer

A)  Whole interval 
B)  Percent of occurrence 
C)  Trials to criterion 
D)  Frequency

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a dimension of applied behavior analysis?

Accepted Answer

A)  Effective 
B)  Technological 
C)  Applied 
D)  Empirical

Question 8

The purpose of conducting a functional assessment is to:

Accepted Answer

A)  Complete a functional analysis 
B)  Manipulate variables that affect behavior 
C)  Obtain information from which to create a hypothesis statement 
D)  Determine how effective a treatment intervention is

Question 9

You are working with a client who finds physical touch to be aversive.  When the person is off task, the program calls for you to give a warning by counting to 10; at that point, you gently touch him if he is not back on task.  The touch remains until he returns to task.  Please note that being touched is aversive for this particular individual.  If the person gets back on task during counting, this is an example of:

Accepted Answer

A)  Escape 
B)  Avoidance 
C)  Positive reinforcement 
D)  Stimulus fading

Question 10

Which schedule of reinforcement is most effective at maintaining behaviors?

Accepted Answer

A)  Continuous reinforcement 
B)  Intermittent reinforcement 
C)  Extinction 
D)  Ratio

Question 11

A behavior analyst is measuring the time it takes for a client to say, "You're welcome" after the staff says, "Thank you."  The behavior analyst is measuring __________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Frequency 
B)  Duration 
C)  Inter-response time 
D)  Latency

Question 12

Alternative appropriate behaviors that serve the same function for an individual:

Accepted Answer

A)  Always involve skills the individual already possesses 
B)  Produces the same reinforcer for the individual 
C)  Have the same topography as the problem behavior 
D)  Always requires the same amount of response effort as the problem behavior

Question 13

In order to promote generalization in intensive teaching, the behavior analyst should.

Accepted Answer

A)  teach loosely. 
B)  use the same SD. 
C)  use few exemplars. 
D)  teach in the same environment.

Question 14

To address hitting others, two procedures were compared, differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior and time-out. The outcomes were examined within and across subjects. A withdrawal design was employed. The BEST response measure to use in this study is frequency of:

Accepted Answer

A)  the incompatible behavior. 
B)  being sent to time-out. 
C)  hitting others. 
D)  reinforcer delivery.

Question 15

Sammy is having a difficult time completing his independent math worksheet on two-digit division. He is frustrated and doesn't understand how to solve the equations. Sammy raises his hand and asks for "help." The teacher assists Sammy. Sammy's asking for "help" is?

Accepted Answer

A)  receptive language. 
B)  an intraverbal. 
C)  an autoclitic. 
D)  a mand.

Question 16

A married couple wants a behavior analyst to assist them in creating a happier home life for their family. The behavior analyst should.

Accepted Answer

A)  provide counseling to the couple related to the problems that they identify as most important. 
B)  refer the family to another professional, since this type of issue is not amenable to applied behavior analysis. 
C)  set up contracts between the parents and children that require the parents to reinforce appropriate behavior using things that the children identify as important to them. 
D)  explain how behavior analysis could be used to assist the family so that they can make an informed decision about proceeding.

Question 17

Staff alerts you that one of their clients seems to become aggressive when he has not consumed food for several hours. This phenomenon demonstrates the effect of a(n):

Accepted Answer

A)  Discriminative stimulus 
B)  Conditioned stimulus 
C)  Establishing operation 
D)  Negative reinforcer

Question 18

A parent reports that her 2-year-old daughter uses a number of stalling techniques to avoid bedtime once she is told to go to bed. What would be a good progress measure for going to bed when told?

Accepted Answer

A)  frequency 
B)  inter-response time 
C)  latency 
D)  compliance

Question 19

Data were collected on the percentage of intervals at the end of which Thomas was present at his workstation. Which is the BEST method for displaying these data?

Accepted Answer

A)  cumulative record 
B)  equal-interval line graph 
C)  scatterplot 
D)  standard behavior (semilogarithmic) chart

Question 20

Behavior analytic interventions that are effective in changing an individual's behavior in a socially important way are said to have:

Accepted Answer

A)  Parsimony 
B)  Social validity 
C)  Primary importance 
D)  Interobserver reliability

Exam 2: Board Certified Behavior Analyst

A teacher says: "Everyone, you have math homework tonight. Tomorrow, I will draw a name from a hat. If that person has completed his or her homework and remembered to bring it back to school, everyone will get extra recess." What type of group contingency is this?