FIT BCBA mock exam
Personalized System of Instruction is
beneficial because:
A)each student is given an individualized
learning curriculum that will maximize
their potential of learning difficult subject
matter.
C
B)students get to choose what they want
to learn and this increases motivation to
stay on task.
C)students learn at their own pace,
which may reduce frustration for some
students.
D)All the above.
A dog is watching a movie filled with
other animals with its owner. When a dog
appears on the television screen and
begins to stand on its hind legs so too
does the pet dog. In this example, the
dog movie star on screen serves as a(n)
___________ and the pet dog serves as B
a(n) ____________.
A)Planned model; imitator
B)Unplanned model; imitator
C)Imitator; unplanned model
D)Imitator; planned model
You are working with an elderly man
who frequently gives out his private
contact information (phone number, ad-
dress, etc) to random people because he
does not understand the risks of giving
out personal information to others. You D
help him make a list of people he can
give personal information to, which in-
cludes only family and friends.
Making a list of ONLY people he can give
personal information to is an example of:
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A)Stimulus maintenance
B)Stimulus generalization
C)Stimulus equivalence
D)Stimulus discrimination
The completion of one step in a behav-
ioral chain always results in:
A)token reinforcers.
B)a discriminative stimulus to complete
B
the next step of the behavior chain (ex-
cept during the last step)
.C)the ability to do so correctly in the
future.
D)social praise.
When using punishment, the person de-
livering the punishment should:
A)deliver the punishing stimulus intermit-
tently, at least at first, to avoid the learner
having strong emotional responses.
B)start with very mild punishment and
increase the magnitude of punishment C
each time it is delivered so that it de-
creases the learner's motivation to re-
peat the punished behavior.
C)deliver the punishment immediately,
whenever it is possible, to maximize its
effectiveness.
D)(None of the above)
marksman team is split up into 4 dif-
ferent groups, each containing 2 marks-
men. Each marksman gets to shoot their
firearm once at a bullseye target down
the firing range. Then, each 2-marksman
group finds the mean distance of their
groups shots from the center of the bulls-
eye by adding the distances from the
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center of the bullseye to where they hit
on the target, divided by 2. The group
that has the smallest average distance
from the bullseye (that hit closest to the
bullseye on average per hit) gets to go
home early (a reward). What type of
C
group contingency is this?
A)The Good Behavior Game
B)A dependent group contingency
C)An interdependent group contingency
D)An independent group contingency
Dennis is a BCBA® who has worked
with his company for a few years. He is
well-known and well-liked by his cowork-
ers and supervisees. He has supervised
several BCBA® candidates while at this
company and each of them have be-
come behavior analyst themselves. To-
day Dennis has been asked to supervise
a new BCBA® candidate at his compa-
ny. Before providing supervision, what
should Dennis provide?
C
A)a written description of the purpose
of providing supervision and the require-
ments and expectations of the super-
visee.
B)the criteria that will be used to evaluate
the performance of the supervisee.
C)(Both A and B)
D)Dennis does not need to provide any
information, he is well-known at his com-
pany and his company has already told
the BCBA® candidate what to expect.
When using incidental teaching, the ther-
apist should:
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A)reinforce every correct response, even
if the response was prompted. B)rein-
force every response, whether it is cor-
rect or not.
A
C)reinforce every unprompted correct re-
sponse and withhold reinforcement for
every prompted correct response.
D)(None of the above)
When teaching echoics, it is crucial that
the learner has:
A)high motivation for the word he is
B
echoing.
B)a verbally imitative repertoire.
C)already learned how to tact that item.
D)(None of the above)
D
What type of graph is this?
A)BABA Design
B)ABAB Design
C)Changing Criterion Design
D)(Cannot determine)
Event recording would be MOST appro-
priate to use with which behavior?
A)The number of times a woodpecker
pecks wood in a day
B)The number of steps a child takes in C
one day
C)The number of lollipop suckers a child
eats in a day
D)The number of hours a child spends
sitting in one day
A changing criterion experimental de-
sign would be most beneficial to use for
which of the following behaviors?
Personalized System of Instruction is
beneficial because:
A)each student is given an individualized
learning curriculum that will maximize
their potential of learning difficult subject
matter.
C
B)students get to choose what they want
to learn and this increases motivation to
stay on task.
C)students learn at their own pace,
which may reduce frustration for some
students.
D)All the above.
A dog is watching a movie filled with
other animals with its owner. When a dog
appears on the television screen and
begins to stand on its hind legs so too
does the pet dog. In this example, the
dog movie star on screen serves as a(n)
___________ and the pet dog serves as B
a(n) ____________.
A)Planned model; imitator
B)Unplanned model; imitator
C)Imitator; unplanned model
D)Imitator; planned model
You are working with an elderly man
who frequently gives out his private
contact information (phone number, ad-
dress, etc) to random people because he
does not understand the risks of giving
out personal information to others. You D
help him make a list of people he can
give personal information to, which in-
cludes only family and friends.
Making a list of ONLY people he can give
personal information to is an example of:
, FIT BCBA mock exam
A)Stimulus maintenance
B)Stimulus generalization
C)Stimulus equivalence
D)Stimulus discrimination
The completion of one step in a behav-
ioral chain always results in:
A)token reinforcers.
B)a discriminative stimulus to complete
B
the next step of the behavior chain (ex-
cept during the last step)
.C)the ability to do so correctly in the
future.
D)social praise.
When using punishment, the person de-
livering the punishment should:
A)deliver the punishing stimulus intermit-
tently, at least at first, to avoid the learner
having strong emotional responses.
B)start with very mild punishment and
increase the magnitude of punishment C
each time it is delivered so that it de-
creases the learner's motivation to re-
peat the punished behavior.
C)deliver the punishment immediately,
whenever it is possible, to maximize its
effectiveness.
D)(None of the above)
marksman team is split up into 4 dif-
ferent groups, each containing 2 marks-
men. Each marksman gets to shoot their
firearm once at a bullseye target down
the firing range. Then, each 2-marksman
group finds the mean distance of their
groups shots from the center of the bulls-
eye by adding the distances from the
, FIT BCBA mock exam
center of the bullseye to where they hit
on the target, divided by 2. The group
that has the smallest average distance
from the bullseye (that hit closest to the
bullseye on average per hit) gets to go
home early (a reward). What type of
C
group contingency is this?
A)The Good Behavior Game
B)A dependent group contingency
C)An interdependent group contingency
D)An independent group contingency
Dennis is a BCBA® who has worked
with his company for a few years. He is
well-known and well-liked by his cowork-
ers and supervisees. He has supervised
several BCBA® candidates while at this
company and each of them have be-
come behavior analyst themselves. To-
day Dennis has been asked to supervise
a new BCBA® candidate at his compa-
ny. Before providing supervision, what
should Dennis provide?
C
A)a written description of the purpose
of providing supervision and the require-
ments and expectations of the super-
visee.
B)the criteria that will be used to evaluate
the performance of the supervisee.
C)(Both A and B)
D)Dennis does not need to provide any
information, he is well-known at his com-
pany and his company has already told
the BCBA® candidate what to expect.
When using incidental teaching, the ther-
apist should:
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A)reinforce every correct response, even
if the response was prompted. B)rein-
force every response, whether it is cor-
rect or not.
A
C)reinforce every unprompted correct re-
sponse and withhold reinforcement for
every prompted correct response.
D)(None of the above)
When teaching echoics, it is crucial that
the learner has:
A)high motivation for the word he is
B
echoing.
B)a verbally imitative repertoire.
C)already learned how to tact that item.
D)(None of the above)
D
What type of graph is this?
A)BABA Design
B)ABAB Design
C)Changing Criterion Design
D)(Cannot determine)
Event recording would be MOST appro-
priate to use with which behavior?
A)The number of times a woodpecker
pecks wood in a day
B)The number of steps a child takes in C
one day
C)The number of lollipop suckers a child
eats in a day
D)The number of hours a child spends
sitting in one day
A changing criterion experimental de-
sign would be most beneficial to use for
which of the following behaviors?
