BCABA

BCABA practice questions, page 7 of 11, with answer review and explanations.

Question 31

Patrick is participating in a toilet training program. For the first several sessions his trainer, Moira, prompted him to go to the toilet and she delivered edibles and praise each time he correctly voided. Eventually, Moira was able to fade prompts as Patrick began to go to the toilet and void independently. Which of the following BEST describes this process?

  1. establishing operation
  2. negative reinforcement
  3. shifting from respondent to operant behavior
  4. transfer of stimulus control

Question 32

Fiona cannot independently open her lunchbox. It is lunch time. The teacher closes the latch on Fiona's lunchbox and places it in front of Fiona. The teacher has manipulated the

  1. consequence.
  2. establishing operation.
  3. contingency.
  4. prompt.

Question 33

The dependency between a response and the stimuli that precede and follow it is referred to as a

  1. behavior chain.
  2. behavioral correlation.
  3. contingency.
  4. functional response class. C

Question 34

A functional relationship is said to exist when two events

  1. are similar in content.
  2. consistently co-vary.
  3. occur at the same rate.
  4. occur simultaneously.

Question 35

Larry engages in self-injurious behavior which is maintained by automatic reinforcement. This behavior results in abrasions on both of his arms as a result of intense scratching. The behavior analyst decides to have Larry only wear long sleeved shirts as an initial effort to reduce the behavior. This is an example of which type of procedure?

  1. extinction
  2. deprivation
  3. punishment
  4. differential reinforcement