Practice Quiz

How long should you take baseline before introducing treatment?

• You should take baseline until the trend line is stable.

• You should not take baseline. You should try different treatment methods from the onset to see how they affect the behavior.

• You should only take baseline on the first session. From that point on it should be treatment.

• You should take baseline for 3 sessions before starting treatment.

What is an operational definition in behavior analysis?

• A general idea of what the behavior might look like

• A vague description of the behavior

• A clearly defined parameter for recognizing when a behavior occurs or does not occur and how it will be measured

• A subjective interpretation of the behavior

What are primary reinforcers?

• Food and Water only

• Food and Water and Touch

• Attention and tangible items.

• Food, water, attention or tangible items.

How can you assess a child's motivation to know what to use as a reinforcer?

• Only using formal preference assessments.

• Giving them something that they like and typically play with following a task.

• You should always use things that they like and typically play with.

• Formal preference assessments or by observing the child's behavior and assessing their reaction to potential reinforcers.

Whenever a child goes potty on the toilet his mom gives him a lollipop. The child then begins requesting to go to the bathroom himself. In this example what is the lollipop?

• Punisher

• Reinforcer

• Mand

• Bribe

What dimension of behavior should be targeted when a child frequently hits staff during a task?

• Duration

• Frequency/rate

• Latency

• Intensity

A child hand-flaps once or twice a week when watching T.V. or when playing on their ipad. The child also frequently engages in SIB as well as aggressive behaviors at other times. The aggressive behaviors and SIB are being targeted but have remained at a high level. Should hand flapping be added to the plan as a target behavior? Why?

• No, the behavior is happening infrequently and is not as concerning as the SIB and the aggressive behaviors. The more severe behaviors should be targeted first.

• Yes, hand-flapping is not a typical behavior and should be targeted in the plan.

• Yes, in hand-flapping were to start happening more frequently it could get in the way of teaching the child new skills.

• No, hand-flapping is not a concerning behavior and should never be targeted.

Direct data collection is less accurate than indirect data collection.

• True

• False

A child needs a school observation done to get further information on behavioral problems during school. Of the people involved in his case, which would be the most appropriate to do the observation?

• RBT

• BCBA

• BCaBA

• BCBA-D

When should a phase change line not be used when graphing?

• The child gets a new staff person.

• When treatment is introduced.

• If the child starts using a new medication.

• If behaviors are very high one day but no change was made to environmental factors.