BCAT UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Replacement Behavior - ✔✔Other behaviors or skills taught that are an appropriate
substitute for a problem behavior.
✔✔Escape Extinction - ✔✔Planned ignoring of the problem behavior maintained by
social negative reinforcement (the ability to escape a situation/demand)
✔✔Attention Extinction - ✔✔Planned ignoring of the problem behavior maintained by
social positive reinforcement (receiving attention from another person)
✔✔Access to Tangible Extinction - ✔✔Planned ignoring of the problem behavior
maintained by social positive reinforcement (the ability to gain a desired item)
✔✔Extinction Burst - ✔✔The bx on extinction briefly increases in frequency, duration, or
intensity before it decreases and stops.
✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA) - ✔✔The delivery of
reinforcers contingent on an alternative response, where a specific replacement bx is
identified and only that specific box is reinforced.
✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI) - ✔✔The delivery of
reinforcers contingent on a specific desirable bx that is physically incompatible with the
problem bx so that both responses could not occur at the same time.
✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO) - ✔✔The delivery of reinforcers
on an internal schedule, contingent upon the absence of the problem bx. With this, any
appropriate bx other than the problem bx is reinforced
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔The absence or reduction of a reinforcer for a period of time. The
deprivation is an establishing operation that inc. the effectiveness of reinforcers
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A procedure by which a bx that was previously reinforced no loner
received reinforcement and the probability of the behavior decreases. Examples include
planned ignoring, escape extinction, and sensory extinction/response blocking.
✔✔Generalization - ✔✔Occurs when a child uses a newly acquired skill in a novel and
appropriate situation or setting & engages in new forms of the newly acquired skill w/o
being taught to do so
✔✔Maintenance - ✔✔The continuation of a behavior change after all or part of the
intervention responsible for the behavior change has been faded or terminated. [The
, extent to which the child continues to demonstrate: reduction of prob. behaviors and inc.
of appropriate bx]
✔✔Premack Principle - ✔✔AKA: "If...then..." When a highly preferred activity can be
used to reinforce a low preferred activity.
✔✔Response Blocking - ✔✔The source of reinforcement is blocked or stopped by the
therapist in order to eliminate the reinforcing sensory stimulus
✔✔Redirection - ✔✔Prompting a client to engage in a different bx than they are trying to
engage in
✔✔Overcorrection - ✔✔The procedure of reducing the frequency of a target bx by
making restitution for damaged and practice of appropriate bx contingent upon the
target bx (*Do a task plus more*)
✔✔Response Cost - ✔✔A response reduction procedure in which bx is weakened by
the removal of a specified amount of a reinforcer, contingent upon the occurrence of the
problem bx.
✔✔Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔After a bx has been extinguished or reduced for a
period of time an increase in the magnitude of the behavior occurs.
✔✔Time-Out from Reinforcement - ✔✔A response reduction procedure in which bx is
weakened by the brief removal of all sources of social positive reinforcement contingent
upon the occurrence of problem bx. (This is only effective when the child is in a
preferred environment and moved to a less preferred environment).
✔✔Replacement Behavior Interventions - ✔✔Eliminating reinforcement for a problem bx
while reinforcing a replacement bx.
✔✔Types of replacement Behavior interventions - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of other
behavior (DRO)
Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)
Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI)
Differential reinforcement of low rates of behavior (DRL)
✔✔Types of time out - ✔✔Non exclusionary
Exclusionary
Seclusionary
✔✔Autism - ✔✔Characterized by impairment in ability to form normal social
relationships, impairment in ability to communicate with others, and repetitive behavior
patterns
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Replacement Behavior - ✔✔Other behaviors or skills taught that are an appropriate
substitute for a problem behavior.
✔✔Escape Extinction - ✔✔Planned ignoring of the problem behavior maintained by
social negative reinforcement (the ability to escape a situation/demand)
✔✔Attention Extinction - ✔✔Planned ignoring of the problem behavior maintained by
social positive reinforcement (receiving attention from another person)
✔✔Access to Tangible Extinction - ✔✔Planned ignoring of the problem behavior
maintained by social positive reinforcement (the ability to gain a desired item)
✔✔Extinction Burst - ✔✔The bx on extinction briefly increases in frequency, duration, or
intensity before it decreases and stops.
✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA) - ✔✔The delivery of
reinforcers contingent on an alternative response, where a specific replacement bx is
identified and only that specific box is reinforced.
✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI) - ✔✔The delivery of
reinforcers contingent on a specific desirable bx that is physically incompatible with the
problem bx so that both responses could not occur at the same time.
✔✔Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO) - ✔✔The delivery of reinforcers
on an internal schedule, contingent upon the absence of the problem bx. With this, any
appropriate bx other than the problem bx is reinforced
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔The absence or reduction of a reinforcer for a period of time. The
deprivation is an establishing operation that inc. the effectiveness of reinforcers
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A procedure by which a bx that was previously reinforced no loner
received reinforcement and the probability of the behavior decreases. Examples include
planned ignoring, escape extinction, and sensory extinction/response blocking.
✔✔Generalization - ✔✔Occurs when a child uses a newly acquired skill in a novel and
appropriate situation or setting & engages in new forms of the newly acquired skill w/o
being taught to do so
✔✔Maintenance - ✔✔The continuation of a behavior change after all or part of the
intervention responsible for the behavior change has been faded or terminated. [The
, extent to which the child continues to demonstrate: reduction of prob. behaviors and inc.
of appropriate bx]
✔✔Premack Principle - ✔✔AKA: "If...then..." When a highly preferred activity can be
used to reinforce a low preferred activity.
✔✔Response Blocking - ✔✔The source of reinforcement is blocked or stopped by the
therapist in order to eliminate the reinforcing sensory stimulus
✔✔Redirection - ✔✔Prompting a client to engage in a different bx than they are trying to
engage in
✔✔Overcorrection - ✔✔The procedure of reducing the frequency of a target bx by
making restitution for damaged and practice of appropriate bx contingent upon the
target bx (*Do a task plus more*)
✔✔Response Cost - ✔✔A response reduction procedure in which bx is weakened by
the removal of a specified amount of a reinforcer, contingent upon the occurrence of the
problem bx.
✔✔Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔After a bx has been extinguished or reduced for a
period of time an increase in the magnitude of the behavior occurs.
✔✔Time-Out from Reinforcement - ✔✔A response reduction procedure in which bx is
weakened by the brief removal of all sources of social positive reinforcement contingent
upon the occurrence of problem bx. (This is only effective when the child is in a
preferred environment and moved to a less preferred environment).
✔✔Replacement Behavior Interventions - ✔✔Eliminating reinforcement for a problem bx
while reinforcing a replacement bx.
✔✔Types of replacement Behavior interventions - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of other
behavior (DRO)
Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)
Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI)
Differential reinforcement of low rates of behavior (DRL)
✔✔Types of time out - ✔✔Non exclusionary
Exclusionary
Seclusionary
✔✔Autism - ✔✔Characterized by impairment in ability to form normal social
relationships, impairment in ability to communicate with others, and repetitive behavior
patterns
