BCBA UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●●2 Definitional Measures
Answer: Topography
Magnitude
●●2 Derivative Measures
Answer: Percentage
Trials-to-Criterion
●●2 Methods for Calculating Duration
Answer: 1. Total Duration Per Session
2. Duration-Per-Occurrence
●●2 Procedures for Identifying Effective Reinforcers
Answer: 1. Stimulus Preference Assessment
2. Reinforcer Assessment
●●2 types of bx
Answer: Respondent
Operant
,●●2 Types of Cumulative Record Response Rates
Answer: 1. Overall Response Rate
2. Local Response Rate
●●2 Types of Errors in Evaluating ABA Research
Answer: Type I error (AKA: False Positive): assuming the IV affected
the DV, when it actually did NOT do so.
Type II error (AKA: False Negative): assuming the IV did NOT affect
the DV, when it actually did.
●●2 Types of Models
Answer: 1. Planned Models
2. Unplanned Models
●●2 Types of MOs
Answer: Establishing Operation (EO)
Abolishing Operation (AO)
●●2 Types of Negative Reinforcement
Answer: 1. Escape
2. Avoidance
,●●2 Types of Prompts
Answer: 1. Response Prompts
2. Stimulus Prompts
●●2 Types of Shaping Methods
Answer: 1. ACROSS Response Topographies
2. WITHIN Response Topographies
●●2 Types of validity in experimental designs
Answer: 1. Internal Validity
2. External Validity
●●2 Variations of Multiple Baseline Design
Answer: 1. Multiple Probe Design
2. Delayed Multiple Baseline Design
●●2 ways to create indiscriminable contingencies
Answer: 1. Intermittent Schedules of Reinforcement
2. Delayed Rewards
●●2 Ways to Remove Stimulus Prompts
Answer: FS
, Fading
Shape
●●3 Antecedent Interventions
Answer: 1. Noncontingent Reinforcement
2. High-Probability Request Sequence
3. Functional Communication Training
●●3 Characteristics of Good Operational Definitions
Answer: OCC
Objective
Clear
Complete
●●3 Components of Contingency Contracts
Answer: BRD
Behavior (description of bx)
Reward (description of reward)
Data (bx data)
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●●2 Definitional Measures
Answer: Topography
Magnitude
●●2 Derivative Measures
Answer: Percentage
Trials-to-Criterion
●●2 Methods for Calculating Duration
Answer: 1. Total Duration Per Session
2. Duration-Per-Occurrence
●●2 Procedures for Identifying Effective Reinforcers
Answer: 1. Stimulus Preference Assessment
2. Reinforcer Assessment
●●2 types of bx
Answer: Respondent
Operant
,●●2 Types of Cumulative Record Response Rates
Answer: 1. Overall Response Rate
2. Local Response Rate
●●2 Types of Errors in Evaluating ABA Research
Answer: Type I error (AKA: False Positive): assuming the IV affected
the DV, when it actually did NOT do so.
Type II error (AKA: False Negative): assuming the IV did NOT affect
the DV, when it actually did.
●●2 Types of Models
Answer: 1. Planned Models
2. Unplanned Models
●●2 Types of MOs
Answer: Establishing Operation (EO)
Abolishing Operation (AO)
●●2 Types of Negative Reinforcement
Answer: 1. Escape
2. Avoidance
,●●2 Types of Prompts
Answer: 1. Response Prompts
2. Stimulus Prompts
●●2 Types of Shaping Methods
Answer: 1. ACROSS Response Topographies
2. WITHIN Response Topographies
●●2 Types of validity in experimental designs
Answer: 1. Internal Validity
2. External Validity
●●2 Variations of Multiple Baseline Design
Answer: 1. Multiple Probe Design
2. Delayed Multiple Baseline Design
●●2 ways to create indiscriminable contingencies
Answer: 1. Intermittent Schedules of Reinforcement
2. Delayed Rewards
●●2 Ways to Remove Stimulus Prompts
Answer: FS
, Fading
Shape
●●3 Antecedent Interventions
Answer: 1. Noncontingent Reinforcement
2. High-Probability Request Sequence
3. Functional Communication Training
●●3 Characteristics of Good Operational Definitions
Answer: OCC
Objective
Clear
Complete
●●3 Components of Contingency Contracts
Answer: BRD
Behavior (description of bx)
Reward (description of reward)
Data (bx data)
