QABA Exam Updated Actual Exam Question
and Answer (2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• Discriminated avoidance -✓✓ A signaled (SD) contingency for behavior that
indicates that engaging in the behavior will prevent and/or delay the onset of an
aversive stimulus.
• transitive MO (CMO-T) -✓✓ A type of conditioned motivating operation that is
established when an environmental variable establishes another event as a
reinforcer or punisher, meaning that a deprived item can only be acquired by a
secondary stimulus, establishing the reinforcing effectiveness of the secondary
stimulus, and evoking the necessary behaviors to contact the secondary stimulus.
• assent -✓✓ The agreement of participation by a client who is unable to give legal
consent for their own participation.
• Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) -✓✓ A branch of behavior analysis
that deals with research on basic processes and principles and is mainly conducted
in laboratories.
• behavior cusp -✓✓ Behaviors that, when acquired, result in the individual
accessing new environments and, therefore, new stimulus controls and
contingencies(i.e., reinforcement).
• pragmatism -✓✓ A philosophical assumption underlying the science of behavior
analysis that focuses on practical solutions (e.g., if it works, don't fix it), which at
the level of behavior, involves the relation between the setting (A) and the
behavior (B) is because of the consequence (C).
• generality -✓✓ A dimension of ABA, which explains that any behavior change
should persist across time, settings, behaviors, and people that differ from the
original intervention conditions.
• validity -✓✓ Measurement is trustworthy when the measurement that produces
data is applicable and specific to the target behavior of interest and the relevant
dimension of that behavior; in other words, you measure what you set out to
measure.
, • performance monitoring -✓✓ A systematic and objective observation method of
staff performance used to ensure procedural fidelity and effectiveness of training
and to assess for areas of needed support.
• overshadowing -✓✓ The presence of a competing or distracting stimulus that
interferes with the acquisition of a skill/stimulus control of another stimulus.
• behavior chain -✓✓ A specific sequence of discrete responses/behaviors that,
when linked together, form a terminal behavior. Each discrete response/behavior is
associated with a particular stimulus condition(SD), and each response and the
associated SD serve as an individual component of the chain.
• negative punishment -✓✓ A process that occurs when a response is followed
immediately by the removal of a stimulus (or a decrease in the intensity of a
stimulus) that results in a decrease in the future frequency of similar responses
under similar conditions.
• rule governed behavior -✓✓ A verbal description of a behavioral contingency in
which behavior comes under the control of consequences that are too delayed to
influence behavior directly.
• behavioral contrast -✓✓ A side effect of treatment that occurs in a multiple
schedule of reinforcement or punishment when a change in the schedule of one
part of the reinforcement or punishment contingency changes the behavior in the
opposite direction in the other component of the schedule.
• self administered consequences -✓✓ A self-management procedure in which one
organizes specific consequences to be delivered following the occurrence or
nonoccurrence of one's own behavior to be delivered by others or by oneself.
• unconditioned punisher -✓✓ A stimulus change that decreases the frequency of
any behavior immediately preceding it regardless of the organism's learning history
with that stimulus.
• conditional probability -✓✓ A formula that generates information from ABC
recording to assess the statistical possibility that a target behavior will occur under
specific antecedent and/or consequence conditions.
and Answer (2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• Discriminated avoidance -✓✓ A signaled (SD) contingency for behavior that
indicates that engaging in the behavior will prevent and/or delay the onset of an
aversive stimulus.
• transitive MO (CMO-T) -✓✓ A type of conditioned motivating operation that is
established when an environmental variable establishes another event as a
reinforcer or punisher, meaning that a deprived item can only be acquired by a
secondary stimulus, establishing the reinforcing effectiveness of the secondary
stimulus, and evoking the necessary behaviors to contact the secondary stimulus.
• assent -✓✓ The agreement of participation by a client who is unable to give legal
consent for their own participation.
• Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) -✓✓ A branch of behavior analysis
that deals with research on basic processes and principles and is mainly conducted
in laboratories.
• behavior cusp -✓✓ Behaviors that, when acquired, result in the individual
accessing new environments and, therefore, new stimulus controls and
contingencies(i.e., reinforcement).
• pragmatism -✓✓ A philosophical assumption underlying the science of behavior
analysis that focuses on practical solutions (e.g., if it works, don't fix it), which at
the level of behavior, involves the relation between the setting (A) and the
behavior (B) is because of the consequence (C).
• generality -✓✓ A dimension of ABA, which explains that any behavior change
should persist across time, settings, behaviors, and people that differ from the
original intervention conditions.
• validity -✓✓ Measurement is trustworthy when the measurement that produces
data is applicable and specific to the target behavior of interest and the relevant
dimension of that behavior; in other words, you measure what you set out to
measure.
, • performance monitoring -✓✓ A systematic and objective observation method of
staff performance used to ensure procedural fidelity and effectiveness of training
and to assess for areas of needed support.
• overshadowing -✓✓ The presence of a competing or distracting stimulus that
interferes with the acquisition of a skill/stimulus control of another stimulus.
• behavior chain -✓✓ A specific sequence of discrete responses/behaviors that,
when linked together, form a terminal behavior. Each discrete response/behavior is
associated with a particular stimulus condition(SD), and each response and the
associated SD serve as an individual component of the chain.
• negative punishment -✓✓ A process that occurs when a response is followed
immediately by the removal of a stimulus (or a decrease in the intensity of a
stimulus) that results in a decrease in the future frequency of similar responses
under similar conditions.
• rule governed behavior -✓✓ A verbal description of a behavioral contingency in
which behavior comes under the control of consequences that are too delayed to
influence behavior directly.
• behavioral contrast -✓✓ A side effect of treatment that occurs in a multiple
schedule of reinforcement or punishment when a change in the schedule of one
part of the reinforcement or punishment contingency changes the behavior in the
opposite direction in the other component of the schedule.
• self administered consequences -✓✓ A self-management procedure in which one
organizes specific consequences to be delivered following the occurrence or
nonoccurrence of one's own behavior to be delivered by others or by oneself.
• unconditioned punisher -✓✓ A stimulus change that decreases the frequency of
any behavior immediately preceding it regardless of the organism's learning history
with that stimulus.
• conditional probability -✓✓ A formula that generates information from ABC
recording to assess the statistical possibility that a target behavior will occur under
specific antecedent and/or consequence conditions.
