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Board Certified Behavior Analyst

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Exam Code	BCBA
Exam Name	Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Questions	180 Questions Answers With Explanation
Update Date	04, 14, 2026
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Question # 1

For which scenario would discrimination training be an appropriate behavior change strategy?

A. Nathan hits others during math class but not during other classes. 
B. Peter loves to talk to his peers, which is very disruptive during church. 
C. Suzi refuses to eat dinner, but she does eat breakfast and lunch. 
D. Tabitha gloats when she wins a game and pouts when she loses. 

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Question # 2

One of the MOST important reasons for writing a precise definition of behavior is that a precise definition: 

A. produces greater interobserver agreement and requires less training time for observers. 
B. allows for easier and more reliable quantification of temporal locus and temporal extent. 
C. increases the likelihood that the behavior of interest will be reliably detected by observers or measurement equipment. 
D. makes calibration checks of observers or measurement equipment less necessary.

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Question # 3

A parent reports that her 2-year-old daughter uses a number of stalling techniques to avoid bedtime once she is told to go to bed. What would be a good progress measure for going to bed when told? 

A. frequency 
B. inter-response time 
C. latency 
D. compliance 

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Question # 4

Tommy is looking at a photo album with his dad. He looks at his dad and then points to a picture of his mom and says, "Mommy." This is an example oF. 

A. a tact. 
B. transitivity. 
C. receptive language. 
D. matching to sample. 

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Question # 5

A behavior analyst decides to replicate a published research project but finds that the information provided does not allow them to complete the project without more information from the author. The article violates which dimension of applied behavior analysis? 

A. effective 
B. ethical 
C. conceptually systematic
 D. technological 

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Question # 6

To address hitting others, two procedures were compareD. differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior and time-out. The outcomes were examined within and across subjects. A withdrawal design was employed. The BEST response measure to use in this study is frequency oF. 

A. the incompatible behavior. 
B. being sent to time-out. 
C. hitting others. 
D. reinforcer delivery. 

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Question # 7

Adherence to "procedural integrity" promotes generalization by facilitatinG. 

A. normalization. 
B. ethical treatment of consumers. 
C. consistency of instruction. 
D. spontaneous changes in intervention procedures. 

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Question # 8

During the hour immediately following meals, Bill asks for more food. Data are collected only during this hour after each meal. Which method of data collection would be MOST accurate? 

A. duration recording 
B. frequency recording 
C. narrative recording 
D. partial-interval recording 

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Question # 9

Data were collected on the percentage of intervals at the end of which Thomas was present at his workstation. Which is the BEST method for displaying these data? 

A. cumulative record 
B. equal-interval line graph 
C. scatterplot 
D. standard behavior (semilogarithmic) chart 

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Question # 10

A behavioral assessment indicates that the problem behavior of a young woman is maintained by others bringing things to her or taking things away following occurrence of the behavior. Since the behavior results in physical injury, the decision to decrease its occurrence has been made. Which is the BEST general approach? 

A. Determine a potential punisher and deliver it following every occurrence of the behavior, but do not provide or remove other things following the occurrence. 
B. Prevent the behavior by physically blocking each response. 
C. Stop providing or removing things following the behavior and allow it to undergo extinction. 
D. Use protective equipment that prevents injury and establish a replacement behavior that results in things being provided to or removed from the woman. 

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Question # 11

All of the following are appropriate methods for promoting maintenance and generalization of newly trained behaviors EXCEPT: 

A. gradually adding stimuli from the natural environment into the training setting. 
B. gradually altering the training antecedents to match naturally occurring ones. 
C. training others to reinforce the behavior in the natural setting. 
D. varying cues in the natural environment to match those in the training setting. 

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Question # 12

Having obtained appropriate consent, a behavior analyst wishes to communicate data to non-behavior analyst colleagues and family of the client. The most appropriate presentation strategy is: 

A. standard celeration charts. 
B. short video clips of client performance and line graphs. 
C. bar graphs comparing client performance to performance of peers. 
D. short video clips with a written anecdotal report. 

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Question # 13

A child with food refusal behaviors accepts one bite out of the ten bites that her caregiver offered. What measure should be used to record this behavior? 

A. duration 
B. latency 
C. percent of occurrence 
D. trials to criterion 

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Question # 14

A client with a history of escape maintained problem behavior begins to throw the puzzle pieces a few minutes after starting to work on the task. What is the BEST programmatic change for the behavior analyst to make? 

A. Remove the puzzle and implement a time-out procedure. 
B. Teach the client to request escape using an adaptive behavior. 
C. Implement an overcorrection procedure to reduce puzzle piece throwing. 
D. Increase the amount of social praise delivered for successful task completion.

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Question # 15

What best defines a discriminative stimulus? 

A. It always elicits a response. 
B. It is defined by its effect on behavior. 
C. It is established using either operant or respondent procedures. 
D. It is any change in the environment. 

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Question # 16

An establishing operation is any change in the environment whicH. 

A. momentarily alters the effectiveness of the consequence for a behavior that was previously followed by reinforcement. 
B. alters the timing of a behavior and momentarily alters the frequency of the behavior that was previously followed by reinforcement. 
C. alters the effectiveness of some object or event as reinforcement thus momentarily changing the likelihood of behavior that was previously followed by that reinforcer. 
D. alters the effectiveness of some object or event as a contingency-shaped rule and at the same time changes the momentary frequency of the behavior that was previously followed by reinforcement. 

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Question # 17

Unwanted side-effects associated with the use of an extinction procedure are MOST likely to appear: 

A. immediately after the extinction burst. 
B. after the individual realizes that the procedure will be implemented consistently. 
C. when ratio schedules are increased too rapidly. 
D. shortly after the procedure is first implemented. 

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Question # 18

When Susan attempts to escape from a task, she exhibits several behaviors, including hitting her head, stomping her feet, and crying. This is an example of 

A. A. functional response class. 
B. respondent class. 
C. stimulus class. 
D. topographical response class. 

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Question # 19

The systematic presentation and examination of information in an ABC format, where A represents the antecedent stimuli, B represents the behavior, and C represents the consequences following the behavior, is calleD. 

A. a consequence analysis. 
B. a functional analysis. 
C. a response analysis. 
D. a descriptive assessment. 

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Question # 20

In order to decrease the occurrence of an inappropriate behavior effectively, a behavior analyst should simultaneously increasE. 

A. reinforcement for all other behaviors.
 B. acceptable alternative behaviors. 
C. consequences for inappropriate behavior. 
D. response effort for incompatible behaviors. 

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Question # 21

Clifford's lawn work is steady and up to standard as long as his work is verbally praised approximately every twelfth completed mower circuit. However, at times the crew chief is unable to praise his work at that moment. When praise is not forthcoming, Clifford usually stops working. The best way to facilitate maintenance and generalization of Clifford's work, using a self-management technique, would be to: 

A. have fellow workers provide praise when Clifford stops working. 
B. have the crew chief use a variable schedule of reinforcement. 
C. increase the delay in reinforcement until the afternoon. 
D. teach Clifford how to request reinforcement for the target behavior. 

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Question # 22

The matching law states that when responding is reinforced on concurrent VI-20 and VI-50 schedules, the: 

A. number of responses will match the number of reinforcers obtained. 
B. proportion of responses for each alternative will become equal over time. 
C. organism will respond exclusively to the alternative with the highest rate of reinforcement. 
D. proportion of responses across the two alternatives will equal the proportion of reinforcers obtained for those alternatives. 

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Question # 23

A behavior analyst is asked to consult about a 10-year-old child who gets out of his seat during class at least once every 15 minutes. The behavior analyst wants the teacher to collect data on the child’s on-task behavior. Given that the teacher works alone in the classroom with 30 children, the BEST procedure to employ would bE. 

A. interval recording. 
B. latency recording. 
C. duration recording. 
D. time sampling. 

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Question # 24

Missy is using a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate the effects of peer tutoring to teach three students to complete division problems. These three students have had no prior instruction in division. Missy MOST LIKELY chose a multiple probe design rather than a multiple baseline design becausE.  

A. the students' baseline scores will be zero. 
B. the students could not miss class very often. 
C. other extraneous variables may cause their skills to improve. 
D. she is interested in comparing the effects of three interventions at once. 

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Question # 25

As part of evaluating procedural integrity on a school based program, it is important for the behavior analyst to assess the quality of data collected by a teacher. The BEST method is for the behavior analyst to? 

A. take data on student performance simultaneously with the teacher. 
B. compare student's self-graphed data to data collected by the teacher. 
C. compare data collected at the same time by the teacher and another teacher. 
D. compare her/his observation of a student's performance with data collected by the teacher from an earlier training session with the student. 

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