BCBA Practice Study Guide Questions with A level solution
version 2024/2025
Accuracy - correct answer a description of how close a measurement is to the
true value of the quantity measured.
7 Dimensions of ABA - correct answer behavioral: (observable and measurable
behaviors are targeted)
Applied: (socially significant behaviors are selected)
Technological: procedures are described clearly and concisely so that other may
implement accurately
Conceptually Systematic: interventions consistent with principles demonstrated in
the literature
Analytic: decisions are data based
Generalization: skills/behavior occur in environments other than where they were
discretely taught
Effective: interventions are monitored to evaluate the impact on the target
behavior
Behavior trap - correct answer using natural contingencies (potentially items of
interest that may act as reinforcement) of reinforcement can operate to promote
and maintain generalized behavior changes (such as increasing reading skills or
math problems). Example: Student was scorning low in reading and math. Loved
, baseball. Used baseball player names to teach spelling and reading, hometown
to learn geography ect.
False negative (type 2) - correct answer not perceiving a stimulus that is
present (when you are pregnant but the test says NO).
Fasle positive (type 1) - correct answer when you are not pregnant but it says
you are.
Reactivity - correct answer effects of an observation and measurement
procedure on the behavior being measured. Reactivity is most likely when
measurement procedures are obtrusive, especially if the person being
OBSERVED is aware of the observer's presence and purpose.
Abative effect - correct answer a decrease in the current frequency of behavior
that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing
effectiveness by the same motivating operation EXAMPLE: food ingestion abates
(decreases the current frequency of) behavior that has been reinforced by food).
Observer drift - correct answer any unintended change in the way an observer
uses a measurement system over the course of an investigation that results in
measurement error
Cumulative graph - correct answer a graph on which the number of occurrences
of behavior observed in a given session is added to the number of occurrences
of previous sessions in order to derive the data points to be plotted. DATA WILL
ALWAYS INCREASES OR STAYS CONSTANT
Default Technologies - correct answer coercive, punishment based
interventions that are often selected arbitrarily- Punishment does not always fit
crime- not generally function based
version 2024/2025
Accuracy - correct answer a description of how close a measurement is to the
true value of the quantity measured.
7 Dimensions of ABA - correct answer behavioral: (observable and measurable
behaviors are targeted)
Applied: (socially significant behaviors are selected)
Technological: procedures are described clearly and concisely so that other may
implement accurately
Conceptually Systematic: interventions consistent with principles demonstrated in
the literature
Analytic: decisions are data based
Generalization: skills/behavior occur in environments other than where they were
discretely taught
Effective: interventions are monitored to evaluate the impact on the target
behavior
Behavior trap - correct answer using natural contingencies (potentially items of
interest that may act as reinforcement) of reinforcement can operate to promote
and maintain generalized behavior changes (such as increasing reading skills or
math problems). Example: Student was scorning low in reading and math. Loved
, baseball. Used baseball player names to teach spelling and reading, hometown
to learn geography ect.
False negative (type 2) - correct answer not perceiving a stimulus that is
present (when you are pregnant but the test says NO).
Fasle positive (type 1) - correct answer when you are not pregnant but it says
you are.
Reactivity - correct answer effects of an observation and measurement
procedure on the behavior being measured. Reactivity is most likely when
measurement procedures are obtrusive, especially if the person being
OBSERVED is aware of the observer's presence and purpose.
Abative effect - correct answer a decrease in the current frequency of behavior
that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing
effectiveness by the same motivating operation EXAMPLE: food ingestion abates
(decreases the current frequency of) behavior that has been reinforced by food).
Observer drift - correct answer any unintended change in the way an observer
uses a measurement system over the course of an investigation that results in
measurement error
Cumulative graph - correct answer a graph on which the number of occurrences
of behavior observed in a given session is added to the number of occurrences
of previous sessions in order to derive the data points to be plotted. DATA WILL
ALWAYS INCREASES OR STAYS CONSTANT
Default Technologies - correct answer coercive, punishment based
interventions that are often selected arbitrarily- Punishment does not always fit
crime- not generally function based
