SPCE 611 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Q1: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Brittany's eye poking. What would you conclude is probably the
function of Brittany's eye poking?
Answer: automatic reinforcement
●● Q2: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Michael's head hitting. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining
conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing self-
injury would be
Answer: noncontingent attention and learning to request attention
●● Q3: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of Tony's
dropping to the floor. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining
conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing
dropping would be
Answer: reducing task effort and teaching Tony to sign "Break" during
non-preferred activities
●● Q4: Conducting a descriptive functional behavior assessment may
involve (select all that apply)
Answer: implementing a scatterplot
,continuous recording of the problem behavior in relation to naturally
occurring events
providing a narrative description of the problem behavior in the
environment in which it occurs
●● Q5: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Sammy's biting. What would you conclude is the function of Sammy's
biting? Select all that apply.
Answer: both social positive reinforcement and social negative
reinforcement
●● Q6: A default technology is
Answer: the term used to refer to the intervention that individuals may
resort to using that are increasingly intrusive, coercive, and punishment-
based
●● Q7: Analog conditions are used in a functional analysis because
Answer: they allow the practitioner to better control the environmental
variables that may be related to the problem behavior
●● Q8: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Laurie's mouthing of clothing and other inedible objects. Based on the
results so far, the next steps you might take would be to
,Answer: consider developing an intervention for automatically
reinforced behavior
●● Q9: An FBA can be considered a form of reinforcer assessment.
Answer: True
●● Q10: Assessment of the function of a behavior can yield useful
information with respect to intervention strategies that are likely to be
effective.
Answer: True
●● Q11: Behavior analysts may get interesting information from
descriptive and indirect assessments, but these do not provide a basis for
developing functional hypotheses.
Answer: False
●● Q12: One concern about functional analysis that is not a concern
with descriptive assessment is the chance of getting a false positive.
Answer: False
●● Q13: FBA methods can be classified into two types 1) functional
analysis and 2) descriptive assessment.
Answer: False
, ●● Q14: For each numbered statement, select all answers that may
apply.
Recording procedure used to record the extent to which a target behavior
occurs more often at a particular time than others.
Answer: Scatterplots
●● Q14: Observers record occurrences of the targeted problem
behaviors and selected environmental events in the natural routine
during a period of time.
Answer: ABC continuous
●● Q14: Data are collected only when behaviors of interest are
observed.
Answer: ABC narrative recording
●● Q14: Uses precise measures and in some cases the correlations may
reflect casual relations.
Answer: ABC continuous recording
●● Q14: Recording is open ended.
Answer: ABC narrative recording
●● Q14: Data are collected for several days and then analyzed for
pattern across time periods.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Q1: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Brittany's eye poking. What would you conclude is probably the
function of Brittany's eye poking?
Answer: automatic reinforcement
●● Q2: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Michael's head hitting. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining
conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing self-
injury would be
Answer: noncontingent attention and learning to request attention
●● Q3: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of Tony's
dropping to the floor. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining
conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing
dropping would be
Answer: reducing task effort and teaching Tony to sign "Break" during
non-preferred activities
●● Q4: Conducting a descriptive functional behavior assessment may
involve (select all that apply)
Answer: implementing a scatterplot
,continuous recording of the problem behavior in relation to naturally
occurring events
providing a narrative description of the problem behavior in the
environment in which it occurs
●● Q5: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Sammy's biting. What would you conclude is the function of Sammy's
biting? Select all that apply.
Answer: both social positive reinforcement and social negative
reinforcement
●● Q6: A default technology is
Answer: the term used to refer to the intervention that individuals may
resort to using that are increasingly intrusive, coercive, and punishment-
based
●● Q7: Analog conditions are used in a functional analysis because
Answer: they allow the practitioner to better control the environmental
variables that may be related to the problem behavior
●● Q8: Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of
Laurie's mouthing of clothing and other inedible objects. Based on the
results so far, the next steps you might take would be to
,Answer: consider developing an intervention for automatically
reinforced behavior
●● Q9: An FBA can be considered a form of reinforcer assessment.
Answer: True
●● Q10: Assessment of the function of a behavior can yield useful
information with respect to intervention strategies that are likely to be
effective.
Answer: True
●● Q11: Behavior analysts may get interesting information from
descriptive and indirect assessments, but these do not provide a basis for
developing functional hypotheses.
Answer: False
●● Q12: One concern about functional analysis that is not a concern
with descriptive assessment is the chance of getting a false positive.
Answer: False
●● Q13: FBA methods can be classified into two types 1) functional
analysis and 2) descriptive assessment.
Answer: False
, ●● Q14: For each numbered statement, select all answers that may
apply.
Recording procedure used to record the extent to which a target behavior
occurs more often at a particular time than others.
Answer: Scatterplots
●● Q14: Observers record occurrences of the targeted problem
behaviors and selected environmental events in the natural routine
during a period of time.
Answer: ABC continuous
●● Q14: Data are collected only when behaviors of interest are
observed.
Answer: ABC narrative recording
●● Q14: Uses precise measures and in some cases the correlations may
reflect casual relations.
Answer: ABC continuous recording
●● Q14: Recording is open ended.
Answer: ABC narrative recording
●● Q14: Data are collected for several days and then analyzed for
pattern across time periods.
