BCBA EXAM PREP EXAM | QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST
UPDATE | GRADED A+ & PASSED
The law of effect
Correct Answer: The effects of our actions determine whether we will repeat them.
Organisms learn through consequences.
Social Validity
Correct Answer: The goals, procedures, and results of an inervention are acceptable
to the client, the behavior analyst, and society.
Reliability Measures
Correct Answer: The comparison of measurements of dependent variables and
independent variables obtained by individual observers.
Informed consent
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,Correct Answer: Consent to intervene in a way that is experimental or risky;
participant/guardian is informed of the risks and benfits and of the right to stop
intervention.
Forgetting procedure
Correct Answer: preventing the opportunity for a response.
Response dimensions
Correct Answer: The physical properties of a response. Ex: intensity, topography,
latency, force, duration, pitch
Response differentiation
Correct Answer: The reinforced response class occurs more frequently than an
extinguished response class, usually as a result of differential reinforcement.
Process vs. Product
Correct Answer: Sometimes you need to make reinforcers and feedback contingent
on the component responses of the process, not just the product.
Unconditioned reinforcer
Correct Answer: A stimulus event or condition that is a reinforcer, though not as a
result of pairing with another reinforcer.
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,Initial behavior
Correct Answer: Behavior that resembles the terminal behavior along some
meaningful dimension and occurs at least with minimal frequency.
Deprivation
Correct Answer: Witholding a reinforcer increases relevant learning and performance.
The procedure of shaping with punishment
Correct Answer: the differential punishment of all behavior except that which more
and more closely resembles the terminal behavior.
Intermediate Behaviors
Correct Answer: Beavior that more closely approximates the terminal behavior.
Positive Practice
Correct Answer: Repeating the correct response after making an incorrect response.
Group Research Design
Correct Answer: An experiement that is conducted with at least two groups of
subjects and the data are usually presented in terms of the mean of the performance of
all subjects combined for each group.
Differential Reinforcement
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, Correct Answer: Reinforcing one set of responses and extinguishing another set of
responses.
Fixed-outcome shaping
Correct Answer: Shaping that involves the delivery of a fixed magnitude of a
reinforcer, when performance meets the changing criterion or the delivery of a fixed
magnitude of an aversive when performance fails to meet changing criterion.
Variable-outcome shaping
Correct Answer: Shaping that involves an increase in the magnitude of a reinforcer or
a decrease in the magnitude of an aversive outcome as performance more and more
closely resembles terminal behavior.
The procedure of shaping with reinforcement
Correct Answer: The differential reinforcement of only the behavior that more closely
resembles the terminal behavior.
Terminal Behavior
Correct Answer: Behavior not in the repertoire or not occuring at the desired rate; the
goal of intervention
Response Class
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& ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST
UPDATE | GRADED A+ & PASSED
The law of effect
Correct Answer: The effects of our actions determine whether we will repeat them.
Organisms learn through consequences.
Social Validity
Correct Answer: The goals, procedures, and results of an inervention are acceptable
to the client, the behavior analyst, and society.
Reliability Measures
Correct Answer: The comparison of measurements of dependent variables and
independent variables obtained by individual observers.
Informed consent
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,Correct Answer: Consent to intervene in a way that is experimental or risky;
participant/guardian is informed of the risks and benfits and of the right to stop
intervention.
Forgetting procedure
Correct Answer: preventing the opportunity for a response.
Response dimensions
Correct Answer: The physical properties of a response. Ex: intensity, topography,
latency, force, duration, pitch
Response differentiation
Correct Answer: The reinforced response class occurs more frequently than an
extinguished response class, usually as a result of differential reinforcement.
Process vs. Product
Correct Answer: Sometimes you need to make reinforcers and feedback contingent
on the component responses of the process, not just the product.
Unconditioned reinforcer
Correct Answer: A stimulus event or condition that is a reinforcer, though not as a
result of pairing with another reinforcer.
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,Initial behavior
Correct Answer: Behavior that resembles the terminal behavior along some
meaningful dimension and occurs at least with minimal frequency.
Deprivation
Correct Answer: Witholding a reinforcer increases relevant learning and performance.
The procedure of shaping with punishment
Correct Answer: the differential punishment of all behavior except that which more
and more closely resembles the terminal behavior.
Intermediate Behaviors
Correct Answer: Beavior that more closely approximates the terminal behavior.
Positive Practice
Correct Answer: Repeating the correct response after making an incorrect response.
Group Research Design
Correct Answer: An experiement that is conducted with at least two groups of
subjects and the data are usually presented in terms of the mean of the performance of
all subjects combined for each group.
Differential Reinforcement
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, Correct Answer: Reinforcing one set of responses and extinguishing another set of
responses.
Fixed-outcome shaping
Correct Answer: Shaping that involves the delivery of a fixed magnitude of a
reinforcer, when performance meets the changing criterion or the delivery of a fixed
magnitude of an aversive when performance fails to meet changing criterion.
Variable-outcome shaping
Correct Answer: Shaping that involves an increase in the magnitude of a reinforcer or
a decrease in the magnitude of an aversive outcome as performance more and more
closely resembles terminal behavior.
The procedure of shaping with reinforcement
Correct Answer: The differential reinforcement of only the behavior that more closely
resembles the terminal behavior.
Terminal Behavior
Correct Answer: Behavior not in the repertoire or not occuring at the desired rate; the
goal of intervention
Response Class
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