ABAT EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Stereotypy - ✔✔suppressible, repetitive, rhythmical, coordinated, purposeless, fixed,
and nonfunctional pattern of movements.
✔✔Disorders commonly associated in differential diagnosis, such as learning
disabilities, processing disorders, etc. - ✔✔Learning Disabilities: Learning disabilities
are disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do
mathematical calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention.
Processing Disorders: are conditions in which the brain has difficulty receiving and
responding to information that comes through the senses.
✔✔Identify comorbid disorders associated with ASD - ✔✔Anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar
Disorder, Clinical Depression, Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Gastrointestinal
Symptoms, Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delays, Motor Difficulties, OCD,
Seizures and Epilepsy, Tourette Syndrome, and Tuberous Sclerosis
✔✔Scope and role of practice for the ABAT - ✔✔ABA!
The application of experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance
Stay in your realm of knowledge
Remain competent and up to date by completing ongoing training, courses, workshops,
CEUs
Ensure that your coursework, fieldwork is supervised
You design, conduct, and report based on scientific and ethical research
✔✔QABA code of ethics, policies, and procedures - ✔✔https://qababoard.com/wp-
content/uploads/Code-of-Ethics-03-25-21.pdf
✔✔Limitations of confidentiality - ✔✔Child abuse or neglect; imminent severe harm to
another, or imminent severe harm to the person
Have written consent
Use specific forms for reporting
✔✔HIPAA - ✔✔A federal law that restricts an entity's ability to disclose and/or protect
health information.
, It protects a person's Personal Health Information (PHI) including medical records by
providing both ELECTRONIC and PHYSICAL security for a person's records.
Protect information: written consent, no sharing on social media, encrypt records,
double lock, use codes
✔✔Advocacy and collaborative approach to intervention - ✔✔IEP: The IEP is a written
LEGAL document that describes the education plan for a student with a disability. Free
appropriate public education (FAPE) with no cost Special education specifically
designed to meet the needs of the students' unique needs. The IEP helps the school
meet the student's special needs.
IEP meetings happen yearly (parents, regular teach, sped teacher, student (if
appropriate), others who work with student)
Process: Present levels of educational performance → goals for the year → An
explanation of how much of the student's school day (if any) they will spend in the
regular class and other school activities. → The modifications you will need when state
or district-wide tests are given → When and where the school will start providing
services to you, how often the services will be provided, and how long the services are
expected to last → What special education and related services the school will provide
to you → The transition services you need to get ready for life after finishing high school
(portfolio, etc.)
✔✔IEP: Individualized Education Plan - ✔✔A written legal document that is tailored to a
public school child who qualifies for special education.
✔✔IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - ✔✔To provide students with
disabilities the same opportunity for education as those students who do not have a
disability; Providing free appropriate public education (FAPE) with no cost and Special
Education specifically designed to meet the needs of the students unique needs.
✔✔Basic assumptions in behaviorism and behavior modification - ✔✔Behaviorism:
Behaviorism is the scientific study of human behavior. It's goal is to provide the basis for
prediction and control of human beings. Behavior is strengthened or weakened by
consequences, such as reinforcement and punishment. Reinforcement works better
than punishment. All behavior is learned from the environment
BM: The techniques used to decrease or increase a particular type of behavior or
reaction. This is done by replacing undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones
through positive or negative reinforcement .
✔✔Classical Conditioning - ✔✔involves associating an involuntary response and a
stimulus
(dog salivating when hearing whistle (learns that means they get food))
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Stereotypy - ✔✔suppressible, repetitive, rhythmical, coordinated, purposeless, fixed,
and nonfunctional pattern of movements.
✔✔Disorders commonly associated in differential diagnosis, such as learning
disabilities, processing disorders, etc. - ✔✔Learning Disabilities: Learning disabilities
are disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do
mathematical calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention.
Processing Disorders: are conditions in which the brain has difficulty receiving and
responding to information that comes through the senses.
✔✔Identify comorbid disorders associated with ASD - ✔✔Anxiety, ADHD, Bipolar
Disorder, Clinical Depression, Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Gastrointestinal
Symptoms, Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delays, Motor Difficulties, OCD,
Seizures and Epilepsy, Tourette Syndrome, and Tuberous Sclerosis
✔✔Scope and role of practice for the ABAT - ✔✔ABA!
The application of experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance
Stay in your realm of knowledge
Remain competent and up to date by completing ongoing training, courses, workshops,
CEUs
Ensure that your coursework, fieldwork is supervised
You design, conduct, and report based on scientific and ethical research
✔✔QABA code of ethics, policies, and procedures - ✔✔https://qababoard.com/wp-
content/uploads/Code-of-Ethics-03-25-21.pdf
✔✔Limitations of confidentiality - ✔✔Child abuse or neglect; imminent severe harm to
another, or imminent severe harm to the person
Have written consent
Use specific forms for reporting
✔✔HIPAA - ✔✔A federal law that restricts an entity's ability to disclose and/or protect
health information.
, It protects a person's Personal Health Information (PHI) including medical records by
providing both ELECTRONIC and PHYSICAL security for a person's records.
Protect information: written consent, no sharing on social media, encrypt records,
double lock, use codes
✔✔Advocacy and collaborative approach to intervention - ✔✔IEP: The IEP is a written
LEGAL document that describes the education plan for a student with a disability. Free
appropriate public education (FAPE) with no cost Special education specifically
designed to meet the needs of the students' unique needs. The IEP helps the school
meet the student's special needs.
IEP meetings happen yearly (parents, regular teach, sped teacher, student (if
appropriate), others who work with student)
Process: Present levels of educational performance → goals for the year → An
explanation of how much of the student's school day (if any) they will spend in the
regular class and other school activities. → The modifications you will need when state
or district-wide tests are given → When and where the school will start providing
services to you, how often the services will be provided, and how long the services are
expected to last → What special education and related services the school will provide
to you → The transition services you need to get ready for life after finishing high school
(portfolio, etc.)
✔✔IEP: Individualized Education Plan - ✔✔A written legal document that is tailored to a
public school child who qualifies for special education.
✔✔IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - ✔✔To provide students with
disabilities the same opportunity for education as those students who do not have a
disability; Providing free appropriate public education (FAPE) with no cost and Special
Education specifically designed to meet the needs of the students unique needs.
✔✔Basic assumptions in behaviorism and behavior modification - ✔✔Behaviorism:
Behaviorism is the scientific study of human behavior. It's goal is to provide the basis for
prediction and control of human beings. Behavior is strengthened or weakened by
consequences, such as reinforcement and punishment. Reinforcement works better
than punishment. All behavior is learned from the environment
BM: The techniques used to decrease or increase a particular type of behavior or
reaction. This is done by replacing undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones
through positive or negative reinforcement .
✔✔Classical Conditioning - ✔✔involves associating an involuntary response and a
stimulus
(dog salivating when hearing whistle (learns that means they get food))
