BCBA

BCBA practice questions, page 7 of 8, with answer review and explanations.

Question 31

Which of the following would not be a type of function of behavior identified during a functional assessment?

  1. Attention
  2. Escape
  3. Frustration
  4. Access to tangibles

Question 32

Results of a functional assessment reveal that a child engages in hand-biting when she is in a room by herself. The likely function of behavior is:

  1. Attention
  2. Access to tangibles
  3. Escape/avoidance
  4. Automatic reinforcement

Question 33

You are working with a child on teaching swimming. You teach the child to do the front crawl. After a few weeks of teaching, the child is doing both the front crawl and also starts doing the breast stroke. What has occurred?

  1. Stimulus generalization
  2. Response generalization
  3. Failure to generalize
  4. Maintenance

Question 34

What if you teach the child to swim in a pool and the child goes to the beach and can do the front crawl in the ocean?

  1. Stimulus generalization
  2. Response generalization
  3. Failure to generalize
  4. Natural contingencies

Question 35

In reference to maintenance, functional arrangements between behavior and antecedent and consequence events that occur in the environment in which the behavior of interest is to be maintained are called:

  1. Stimulus discriminates
  2. Natural contingencies
  3. Generalization
  4. Maintenance schedules