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Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Questions and Answers

Question 17

Observation sessions should be scheduled so that the representativeness of the data can be maximized. Considering behaviors occurring in a school setting, which of the following options is consistent with this recommendation?

Options:

Behaviors are given letter-codes that represent the complete topographical definition of the behaviors, e.g., “on-task academic behavior” is represented by “O” on the recording sheet.

Observations should be made only when the behavior is likely to occur most frequently during a day, for instance, during a particular academic class.

Recordings of behavior during the whole school day may be needed initially to assess the representativeness of samples within the day.

Representativeness can be assured by scheduling observations in sessions of 60 minutes or more in the morning and afternoon school schedule.

Question 18

The Smiths' daughter, who has autism, has been receiving ABA services for one-and-a-half years from Andrew, a behavior analyst. Andrew's experience and training is in special education. Recently, the Smiths' other child has been behaving differently and they suspect that he may be clinically depressed. The Smiths would like their son to receive services from Andrew because their family is familiar with him and he has provided effective interventions for their daughter. The Smiths ask Andrew to confirm their suspicions about their son. What should Andrew do?

Options:

Remind the family that his area of expertise is special education and ABA.

Conduct a descriptive assessment and collect baseline data in order to develop an intervention.

Consult with colleagues who have expertise in treating mood disorders in order to design an effective intervention.

Refer the family to a colleague who has expertise in diagnosing mood disorders.

Question 19

Which of the following measures would be the MOST appropriate for reporting head banging during each 5-minute interval of work?

Options:

duration of head banging

latency from a request to the first response

rate of head banging

inter-response time

Question 20

A behavior analyst is conducting research on the accuracy of a student's responding to written math problems based on the final answer with no scoring of intermediate calculations. Which is the BEST method for obtaining accurate inter-observer agreement results?

Options:

Researcher and observer sit together to score the student's work.

Photocopies of the student's work are scored independently by researcher and observer.

The student's scratch paper is scored if researcher and observer do not agree on a response.

Researcher scores the student's work and the observer reviews the researcher's scores for accuracy.

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BACB Certifications BCABA BACB Study Notes

Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Questions and Answers

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