BCBA Mock Exam Study
Set
2025-2026
Final Exam Questions with
Verified Answers | Grade A+ |
New Version
,Personalized System of Instruction is beneficial because: C
A)each student is given an individualized learning
curriculum that will maximize their potential of learning
difficult subject matter.
B)students get to choose what they want to learn and this
increases motivation to stay on task.
C)students learn at their own pace, which may reduce
frustration for some students.
D)All the above.
A dog is watching a movie filled with other animals with its B
owner. When a dog appears on the television screen and
begins to stand on its hind legs so too does the pet dog. In
this example, the dog movie star on screen serves as a(n)
___________ and the pet dog serves as a(n)
____________.
A)Planned model; imitator
B)Unplanned model; imitator
C)Imitator; unplanned model
D)Imitator; planned model
You are working with an elderly man who frequently gives D
out his private contact information (phone number,
address, etc) to random people because he does not
understand the risks of giving out personal information to
others. You help him make a list of people he can give
personal information to, which includes only family and
friends.
Making a list of ONLY people he can give personal
information to is an example of:
A)Stimulus maintenance
B)Stimulus generalization
C)Stimulus equivalence
D)Stimulus discrimination
The completion of one step in a behavioral chain always B
results in:
A)token reinforcers.
B)a discriminative stimulus to complete the next step of the
behavior chain (except during the last step)
.C)the ability to do so correctly in the future.
D)social praise.
When using punishment, the person delivering the C
punishment should:
A)deliver the punishing stimulus intermittently, at least at
first, to avoid the learner having strong emotional
responses.
B)start with very mild punishment and increase the
magnitude of punishment each time it is delivered so that it
decreases the learner's motivation to repeat the punished
behavior.
C)deliver the punishment immediately, whenever it is
possible, to maximize its effectiveness.
D)(None of the above)
marksman team is split up into 4 different groups, each C
containing 2 marksmen. Each marksman gets to shoot
their firearm once at a bullseye target down the firing
range. Then, each 2-marksman group finds the mean
distance of their groups shots from the center of the
bullseye by adding the distances from the center of the
bullseye to where they hit on the target, divided by 2. The
group that has the smallest average distance from the
bullseye (that hit closest to the bullseye on average per hit)
gets to go home early (a reward). What type of group
contingency is this?
A)The Good Behavior Game
B)A dependent group contingency
C)An interdependent group contingency
D)An independent group contingency
,Dennis is a BCBA® who has worked with his company for C
a few years. He is well-known and well-liked by his
coworkers and supervisees. He has supervised several
BCBA® candidates while at this company and each of
them have become behavior analyst themselves. Today
Dennis has been asked to supervise a new BCBA®
candidate at his company. Before providing supervision,
what should Dennis provide?
A)a written description of the purpose of providing
supervision and the requirements and expectations of the
supervisee.
B)the criteria that will be used to evaluate the performance
of the supervisee.
C)(Both A and B)
D)Dennis does not need to provide any information, he is
well-known at his company and his company has already
told the BCBA® candidate what to expect.
When using incidental teaching, the therapist should: A
A)reinforce every correct response, even if the response
was prompted. B)reinforce every response, whether it is
correct or not.
C)reinforce every unprompted correct response and
withhold reinforcement for every prompted correct
response.
D)(None of the above)
When teaching echoics, it is crucial that the learner has: B
A)high motivation for the word he is echoing.
B)a verbally imitative repertoire.
C)already learned how to tact that item.
D)(None of the above)
What type of graph is this? D
A)BABA Design
B)ABAB Design
C)Changing Criterion Design
D)(Cannot determine)
Event recording would be MOST appropriate to use with C
which behavior?
A)The number of times a woodpecker pecks wood in a day
B)The number of steps a child takes in one day
C)The number of lollipop suckers a child eats in a day
D)The number of hours a child spends sitting in one day
A changing criterion experimental design would be most A
beneficial to use for which of the following behaviors?
A)Decreasing the amount of times a person bites their
nails each day B)Teaching a child how to appropriately
brush their teeth
C)Teaching your cousin how to drive
D)Decreasing a child's elopement behavior in unsafe
locations
You begin writing behavioral interventions and a treatment B
plan for your client Benny. You are certain you would like to
implement your interventions with Benny. When should
you obtain consent from a guardian?
A)ONLY if the guardian requested to be asked for their
approval before changes are made
B)before changing an intervention goal.
C)ONLY before a more restrictive intervention is used.
D)(All of the above)
, A 7-year-old leaves his bedroom at night and goes to sleep C
in the family home's living room on the couch. The parents
want their son sleeping in his own room and bed. The
parents determine that their son is doing this because his
room is bright at night due to the brightly lit restaurant
signs across the street from the home. What would be the
most practical course of action the parents could do to
attempt to decrease this behavior of sleeping on the couch
in the living room?
A)Installing door alarms on his bedroom door
B)Contacting a behavior analyst to have her conduct a
functional analysis
C)Putting up blinds in the windows of the child's bedroom
and making sure all sources of light in the room are turned
off
D)Setting up a token economy where every hour the child
stays in his room, he earns a token
A behavior analyst begins working with a client who has B
several target behaviors. Which one of his problem
behaviors would be considered the MOST important to
address immediately?
A)Setting fires. He has done this twice but it has not
occurred in 13 years.
B)Visual self-stimulatory behavior of looking up at the
ceiling lights. He engages in this behavior 4 hours per day,
on average, and it gets in the way of him interacting with
peers and performing tasks at home and school. C)Self-
induced vomiting. He has made himself vomit in the past 1
time per month on average. It typically occurs in the
morning before breakfast. D)Pica. He swallowed a coin
when he was a toddler but has not engaged in pica since.
A behavior analyst wants to begin using generalized D
conditioned reinforcers with her client. She believes this
will help decrease the likelihood that her client will become
satiated on a particular reinforcer. Which of the following
stimuli can be used as a generalized conditioned
reinforcer?
A)Saying, "Well done."
B)A thumbs up
C)Coins
D)(All of the above)
Jillian is travelling to see the Eiffel Tower in France. She D
did not know how to speak French before she arrived
there. When she arrives, she is taught to say, "Salut" when
someone waves to her. Then, without being taught, she
begins waving to people when they say, "Salut." What type
of stimulus equivalence is this an example of?
A)Reversibility
B)Transitivity
C)Reflexivity
D)Symmetry
When delivering edible reinforcement to a client, it is B
important to deliver social praise at the same time
because:
A)it shows other clients what responses they can engage
in to receive edible reinforcement.
B)it can establish social praise as a reinforcer itself, which
is easier to deliver than tangible reinforcers.
C)it can be traded in for secondary reinforcers such as
more food.
D)(None of the above)
Set
2025-2026
Final Exam Questions with
Verified Answers | Grade A+ |
New Version
,Personalized System of Instruction is beneficial because: C
A)each student is given an individualized learning
curriculum that will maximize their potential of learning
difficult subject matter.
B)students get to choose what they want to learn and this
increases motivation to stay on task.
C)students learn at their own pace, which may reduce
frustration for some students.
D)All the above.
A dog is watching a movie filled with other animals with its B
owner. When a dog appears on the television screen and
begins to stand on its hind legs so too does the pet dog. In
this example, the dog movie star on screen serves as a(n)
___________ and the pet dog serves as a(n)
____________.
A)Planned model; imitator
B)Unplanned model; imitator
C)Imitator; unplanned model
D)Imitator; planned model
You are working with an elderly man who frequently gives D
out his private contact information (phone number,
address, etc) to random people because he does not
understand the risks of giving out personal information to
others. You help him make a list of people he can give
personal information to, which includes only family and
friends.
Making a list of ONLY people he can give personal
information to is an example of:
A)Stimulus maintenance
B)Stimulus generalization
C)Stimulus equivalence
D)Stimulus discrimination
The completion of one step in a behavioral chain always B
results in:
A)token reinforcers.
B)a discriminative stimulus to complete the next step of the
behavior chain (except during the last step)
.C)the ability to do so correctly in the future.
D)social praise.
When using punishment, the person delivering the C
punishment should:
A)deliver the punishing stimulus intermittently, at least at
first, to avoid the learner having strong emotional
responses.
B)start with very mild punishment and increase the
magnitude of punishment each time it is delivered so that it
decreases the learner's motivation to repeat the punished
behavior.
C)deliver the punishment immediately, whenever it is
possible, to maximize its effectiveness.
D)(None of the above)
marksman team is split up into 4 different groups, each C
containing 2 marksmen. Each marksman gets to shoot
their firearm once at a bullseye target down the firing
range. Then, each 2-marksman group finds the mean
distance of their groups shots from the center of the
bullseye by adding the distances from the center of the
bullseye to where they hit on the target, divided by 2. The
group that has the smallest average distance from the
bullseye (that hit closest to the bullseye on average per hit)
gets to go home early (a reward). What type of group
contingency is this?
A)The Good Behavior Game
B)A dependent group contingency
C)An interdependent group contingency
D)An independent group contingency
,Dennis is a BCBA® who has worked with his company for C
a few years. He is well-known and well-liked by his
coworkers and supervisees. He has supervised several
BCBA® candidates while at this company and each of
them have become behavior analyst themselves. Today
Dennis has been asked to supervise a new BCBA®
candidate at his company. Before providing supervision,
what should Dennis provide?
A)a written description of the purpose of providing
supervision and the requirements and expectations of the
supervisee.
B)the criteria that will be used to evaluate the performance
of the supervisee.
C)(Both A and B)
D)Dennis does not need to provide any information, he is
well-known at his company and his company has already
told the BCBA® candidate what to expect.
When using incidental teaching, the therapist should: A
A)reinforce every correct response, even if the response
was prompted. B)reinforce every response, whether it is
correct or not.
C)reinforce every unprompted correct response and
withhold reinforcement for every prompted correct
response.
D)(None of the above)
When teaching echoics, it is crucial that the learner has: B
A)high motivation for the word he is echoing.
B)a verbally imitative repertoire.
C)already learned how to tact that item.
D)(None of the above)
What type of graph is this? D
A)BABA Design
B)ABAB Design
C)Changing Criterion Design
D)(Cannot determine)
Event recording would be MOST appropriate to use with C
which behavior?
A)The number of times a woodpecker pecks wood in a day
B)The number of steps a child takes in one day
C)The number of lollipop suckers a child eats in a day
D)The number of hours a child spends sitting in one day
A changing criterion experimental design would be most A
beneficial to use for which of the following behaviors?
A)Decreasing the amount of times a person bites their
nails each day B)Teaching a child how to appropriately
brush their teeth
C)Teaching your cousin how to drive
D)Decreasing a child's elopement behavior in unsafe
locations
You begin writing behavioral interventions and a treatment B
plan for your client Benny. You are certain you would like to
implement your interventions with Benny. When should
you obtain consent from a guardian?
A)ONLY if the guardian requested to be asked for their
approval before changes are made
B)before changing an intervention goal.
C)ONLY before a more restrictive intervention is used.
D)(All of the above)
, A 7-year-old leaves his bedroom at night and goes to sleep C
in the family home's living room on the couch. The parents
want their son sleeping in his own room and bed. The
parents determine that their son is doing this because his
room is bright at night due to the brightly lit restaurant
signs across the street from the home. What would be the
most practical course of action the parents could do to
attempt to decrease this behavior of sleeping on the couch
in the living room?
A)Installing door alarms on his bedroom door
B)Contacting a behavior analyst to have her conduct a
functional analysis
C)Putting up blinds in the windows of the child's bedroom
and making sure all sources of light in the room are turned
off
D)Setting up a token economy where every hour the child
stays in his room, he earns a token
A behavior analyst begins working with a client who has B
several target behaviors. Which one of his problem
behaviors would be considered the MOST important to
address immediately?
A)Setting fires. He has done this twice but it has not
occurred in 13 years.
B)Visual self-stimulatory behavior of looking up at the
ceiling lights. He engages in this behavior 4 hours per day,
on average, and it gets in the way of him interacting with
peers and performing tasks at home and school. C)Self-
induced vomiting. He has made himself vomit in the past 1
time per month on average. It typically occurs in the
morning before breakfast. D)Pica. He swallowed a coin
when he was a toddler but has not engaged in pica since.
A behavior analyst wants to begin using generalized D
conditioned reinforcers with her client. She believes this
will help decrease the likelihood that her client will become
satiated on a particular reinforcer. Which of the following
stimuli can be used as a generalized conditioned
reinforcer?
A)Saying, "Well done."
B)A thumbs up
C)Coins
D)(All of the above)
Jillian is travelling to see the Eiffel Tower in France. She D
did not know how to speak French before she arrived
there. When she arrives, she is taught to say, "Salut" when
someone waves to her. Then, without being taught, she
begins waving to people when they say, "Salut." What type
of stimulus equivalence is this an example of?
A)Reversibility
B)Transitivity
C)Reflexivity
D)Symmetry
When delivering edible reinforcement to a client, it is B
important to deliver social praise at the same time
because:
A)it shows other clients what responses they can engage
in to receive edible reinforcement.
B)it can establish social praise as a reinforcer itself, which
is easier to deliver than tangible reinforcers.
C)it can be traded in for secondary reinforcers such as
more food.
D)(None of the above)
