CBCC-KA ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Define: Reprimand - ✔✔To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by making
disapproval contingent on the target behaviour
✔✔List five kinds of punishment - ✔✔Reprimand, response cost, time out, physical
punishment, overcorrection
✔✔Define: Physical Punishment - ✔✔To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by
making brief and non injurious contact with the skin contingent on the target behaviour
✔✔Define: Positive practice - ✔✔Repeated performance of the appropriate behaivour
✔✔Define: Overcorrection - ✔✔To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by
making restitution for damage done and repeated performance of appropriate behaviour
contingent on the target behaviour
✔✔Define: Punisher - ✔✔Any event that, when made contingent on a behaviour,
decreases the frequency of that behaviour
✔✔What are the rules for using extinction? - ✔✔1. Define the target behaviour2. Identify
the reinforcers that maintain the target behaviours3. Withhold all reinforcement of the
target behaviour4. Monitor Results
✔✔Define: Extinction Burst - ✔✔A sharp increase in the frequency of the behaviour on
extinction
✔✔Define: Resurgence - ✔✔The reappearance, during extinction of previously effective
behaviour
✔✔What problems exist when using extinction? - ✔✔1. Uncontrolled reinforcement
2. Duration to effect (slowness)
3. Extinction burst
4. Resurgence
5. Spontaneous recovery
✔✔Define: Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔The reappearance of the target behaviour
following its extinction
✔✔Define: Differential Reinforcement - ✔✔Any procedure that combines extinction and
reinforcement to change the frequency of a target behaviour
✔✔Define: DRL - ✔✔Differential Reinforcement of a Low Rate Behaviour
, ✔✔Define: Differential Reinforcement of Low Rate - ✔✔The procedure of reinforcing the
target behaviour only when it occurs at a low rate
✔✔How can DRL be applied? - ✔✔By only reinforcing the target behaviour after a given
period of time or when it occurs less than a given number of times in a given period
✔✔Define: DRA - ✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Alternate Behaviour
✔✔Define: Pavlovian Condtioning - ✔✔Any procedure in which an event comes to elicit
a response by being paired with an event that elicits that response
✔✔Define: Maintenance - ✔✔Generalization over time
✔✔Define: Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement
A rule governing the delivery of reinforcers
✔✔Define: Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔A schedule of reinforcement based
on the number of times it occurs
✔✔Define: Fixed Ration Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔Provide a reinforcer after the
target behaviour has occured N number of times
✔✔What does the term FR-1 mean and how often would it occur? - ✔✔Fixed Ratio 1,
where one behaviour occurs and it is reinforced on the ration of 1:1; also known as
continuous rate of reinforcement
✔✔Define: Contnuous Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement of every incidence of a
beahviour
✔✔Define: CRF - ✔✔Continuous Reinforcement
✔✔Define: VR or VRS - ✔✔Variable Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement
✔✔Define: Variable Ratio Schedule - ✔✔Provide a reinofrcer after the target behaviour
has occured a number of times with the number varying around an average of N
✔✔activity reinforcers - ✔✔Also called the premack principle or premack reinforcer.
Pets are given access to a more highly reinforcing activity after performing a less
reinforcing activity.
ex: dog is released to run and play in the backyard after they perform a sit and wait at
the door prior to it being opened. This makes the target behavior of sitting and waiting
more likely because of the pos. reinf. contingency of being released to go run and play.
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Define: Reprimand - ✔✔To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by making
disapproval contingent on the target behaviour
✔✔List five kinds of punishment - ✔✔Reprimand, response cost, time out, physical
punishment, overcorrection
✔✔Define: Physical Punishment - ✔✔To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by
making brief and non injurious contact with the skin contingent on the target behaviour
✔✔Define: Positive practice - ✔✔Repeated performance of the appropriate behaivour
✔✔Define: Overcorrection - ✔✔To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by
making restitution for damage done and repeated performance of appropriate behaviour
contingent on the target behaviour
✔✔Define: Punisher - ✔✔Any event that, when made contingent on a behaviour,
decreases the frequency of that behaviour
✔✔What are the rules for using extinction? - ✔✔1. Define the target behaviour2. Identify
the reinforcers that maintain the target behaviours3. Withhold all reinforcement of the
target behaviour4. Monitor Results
✔✔Define: Extinction Burst - ✔✔A sharp increase in the frequency of the behaviour on
extinction
✔✔Define: Resurgence - ✔✔The reappearance, during extinction of previously effective
behaviour
✔✔What problems exist when using extinction? - ✔✔1. Uncontrolled reinforcement
2. Duration to effect (slowness)
3. Extinction burst
4. Resurgence
5. Spontaneous recovery
✔✔Define: Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔The reappearance of the target behaviour
following its extinction
✔✔Define: Differential Reinforcement - ✔✔Any procedure that combines extinction and
reinforcement to change the frequency of a target behaviour
✔✔Define: DRL - ✔✔Differential Reinforcement of a Low Rate Behaviour
, ✔✔Define: Differential Reinforcement of Low Rate - ✔✔The procedure of reinforcing the
target behaviour only when it occurs at a low rate
✔✔How can DRL be applied? - ✔✔By only reinforcing the target behaviour after a given
period of time or when it occurs less than a given number of times in a given period
✔✔Define: DRA - ✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Alternate Behaviour
✔✔Define: Pavlovian Condtioning - ✔✔Any procedure in which an event comes to elicit
a response by being paired with an event that elicits that response
✔✔Define: Maintenance - ✔✔Generalization over time
✔✔Define: Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement
A rule governing the delivery of reinforcers
✔✔Define: Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔A schedule of reinforcement based
on the number of times it occurs
✔✔Define: Fixed Ration Schedule of Reinforcement - ✔✔Provide a reinforcer after the
target behaviour has occured N number of times
✔✔What does the term FR-1 mean and how often would it occur? - ✔✔Fixed Ratio 1,
where one behaviour occurs and it is reinforced on the ration of 1:1; also known as
continuous rate of reinforcement
✔✔Define: Contnuous Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement of every incidence of a
beahviour
✔✔Define: CRF - ✔✔Continuous Reinforcement
✔✔Define: VR or VRS - ✔✔Variable Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement
✔✔Define: Variable Ratio Schedule - ✔✔Provide a reinofrcer after the target behaviour
has occured a number of times with the number varying around an average of N
✔✔activity reinforcers - ✔✔Also called the premack principle or premack reinforcer.
Pets are given access to a more highly reinforcing activity after performing a less
reinforcing activity.
ex: dog is released to run and play in the backyard after they perform a sit and wait at
the door prior to it being opened. This makes the target behavior of sitting and waiting
more likely because of the pos. reinf. contingency of being released to go run and play.
