BCAT LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Punisher - ✔✔Something that causes the target behavior to decrease
✔✔Conditioned Reinforcer - ✔✔(Secondary reinforcer) A stimulus that initially has no
reinforcing properties but through occurring simultaneouly with an unconditioned or
strongly contitioned reinforcer, acquires reinforcing properties.
✔✔Unconditioned Reinforcer - ✔✔(Primary Reinforcer) Reinforcement that is inherent:
food, clothing & shelter
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A procedure by which a behavior that was previously reinforced no
longer recieves reinforcement and the probability of the behavior decreases.
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔The more deprived of a particular reinforcer, the more powerful that
reinforce will be come, used to make it clear that reinforcement is available if the correct
response is given
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔Repeated presentation of a reinforcer weakens its effectiveness and
for this reason the rate of responses declines.
✔✔Contingency - ✔✔the relationship between two events, one being contingent or a
consequence of the other event,
✔✔Motivating Operation - ✔✔An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing
effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event.
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔Elijah has just eaten lunch. The TX brings him into session and plans
on using pieces of carrots as a reinforcer. Carrots are Elijah's favorite food. Elijah
refuses the carrots and begins to not respond during his ABA session. He just ate lunch
and is satiated on food.
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔Tomi has not eaten since 7:00 am. it is now 10:00 am., the TX
offers Tomi food during a preference assessment. Tomi chooses food. He gets 100%
correct on his lesson with the food as a reinforcer for each correct response.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔Jim threw his tablet at his mom when she answered the phone.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔the events, actions, or circumstances that occur immediately before
a behavior
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔Anything an organism does
, ✔✔Consequence - ✔✔what happens immediately after the behavior
✔✔3-Term Contingency (ABC's) - ✔✔Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence - Illustrates
how behavior is elicited by the environment and how consequences of behavior can
affect its future occurrence
✔✔Stimulus - ✔✔a thing that evokes a specific functional reaction; a thing that arouses
activity or energy in someone, something that can elicit or evoke a physiological
response
✔✔Discriminative Stimulus - ✔✔(the cue)(SD) a specific environmental event or
condition in response to which a child is expected to exhibit particular behavior
✔✔Stimulus Control - ✔✔When the phone rings you answer it. When the class bell
rings, the students change classes. When you ask "what is your favorite color?" the
child says " red".
✔✔Response - ✔✔the specific instance of a particular behavior, (Correct, Incorrect, No
Response)
✔✔Discrete Trial Training - ✔✔(DTT) an intervention method based on the science of
ABA a highly structures method of teaching skills by breaking them down
✔✔Discrete Trial Training - ✔✔TX tells child to "touch cup" Child touches cup, the TX
gives the child a piece of apple
✔✔Discrimination Training - ✔✔The process of reinforcing a target response only when
the target antecedent or SD is present, the child is learning to tell the difference
between two or more SD's
✔✔Discrete Trial Training - ✔✔A specific method of teaching in which a task is isolated
and taught across multiple trials. A specific opportunity is presented and a specific
response from the learner is expected. A consequence follows the learners response
✔✔Natural Environment Training - ✔✔(NET) teaching in the natural environment
✔✔Fluency-Based Instruction - ✔✔a teaching model that encourages educators to
teach specific elements of behavior over and over again until the behavior becomes
fluent
✔✔Generalization - ✔✔the process of taking a skill learned in one setting and applying
it in other settings, the process of taking one skill and applying it in different ways
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Punisher - ✔✔Something that causes the target behavior to decrease
✔✔Conditioned Reinforcer - ✔✔(Secondary reinforcer) A stimulus that initially has no
reinforcing properties but through occurring simultaneouly with an unconditioned or
strongly contitioned reinforcer, acquires reinforcing properties.
✔✔Unconditioned Reinforcer - ✔✔(Primary Reinforcer) Reinforcement that is inherent:
food, clothing & shelter
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A procedure by which a behavior that was previously reinforced no
longer recieves reinforcement and the probability of the behavior decreases.
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔The more deprived of a particular reinforcer, the more powerful that
reinforce will be come, used to make it clear that reinforcement is available if the correct
response is given
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔Repeated presentation of a reinforcer weakens its effectiveness and
for this reason the rate of responses declines.
✔✔Contingency - ✔✔the relationship between two events, one being contingent or a
consequence of the other event,
✔✔Motivating Operation - ✔✔An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing
effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event.
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔Elijah has just eaten lunch. The TX brings him into session and plans
on using pieces of carrots as a reinforcer. Carrots are Elijah's favorite food. Elijah
refuses the carrots and begins to not respond during his ABA session. He just ate lunch
and is satiated on food.
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔Tomi has not eaten since 7:00 am. it is now 10:00 am., the TX
offers Tomi food during a preference assessment. Tomi chooses food. He gets 100%
correct on his lesson with the food as a reinforcer for each correct response.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔Jim threw his tablet at his mom when she answered the phone.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔the events, actions, or circumstances that occur immediately before
a behavior
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔Anything an organism does
, ✔✔Consequence - ✔✔what happens immediately after the behavior
✔✔3-Term Contingency (ABC's) - ✔✔Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence - Illustrates
how behavior is elicited by the environment and how consequences of behavior can
affect its future occurrence
✔✔Stimulus - ✔✔a thing that evokes a specific functional reaction; a thing that arouses
activity or energy in someone, something that can elicit or evoke a physiological
response
✔✔Discriminative Stimulus - ✔✔(the cue)(SD) a specific environmental event or
condition in response to which a child is expected to exhibit particular behavior
✔✔Stimulus Control - ✔✔When the phone rings you answer it. When the class bell
rings, the students change classes. When you ask "what is your favorite color?" the
child says " red".
✔✔Response - ✔✔the specific instance of a particular behavior, (Correct, Incorrect, No
Response)
✔✔Discrete Trial Training - ✔✔(DTT) an intervention method based on the science of
ABA a highly structures method of teaching skills by breaking them down
✔✔Discrete Trial Training - ✔✔TX tells child to "touch cup" Child touches cup, the TX
gives the child a piece of apple
✔✔Discrimination Training - ✔✔The process of reinforcing a target response only when
the target antecedent or SD is present, the child is learning to tell the difference
between two or more SD's
✔✔Discrete Trial Training - ✔✔A specific method of teaching in which a task is isolated
and taught across multiple trials. A specific opportunity is presented and a specific
response from the learner is expected. A consequence follows the learners response
✔✔Natural Environment Training - ✔✔(NET) teaching in the natural environment
✔✔Fluency-Based Instruction - ✔✔a teaching model that encourages educators to
teach specific elements of behavior over and over again until the behavior becomes
fluent
✔✔Generalization - ✔✔the process of taking a skill learned in one setting and applying
it in other settings, the process of taking one skill and applying it in different ways
