ABAT - Applied Behavior Analysis Test Applied Behavior Analysis Antecedent-Based Interventions 1

Question 1

Before a student transitions to a non-preferred subject, a behavior technician briefly reviews what will happen during that class and shows the student a sample activity. This antecedent strategy is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Priming

Answer

Priming involves exposing an individual to upcoming stimuli or activities ahead of time so that the actual event is more predictable and less aversive, thereby reducing problem behavior during transitions or difficult tasks.

Question 2

A BCBA recommends that a caregiver offer a child a choice between two non-preferred tasks before requiring task completion. The primary mechanism by which this reduces escape-motivated problem behavior is:

Accepted Answer

It increases the individual's sense of control and predictability over the environment

Answer

Choice-making as an antecedent intervention reduces the aversiveness of demands by giving the individual some degree of control, which decreases the motivating operation for escape-motivated behavior without changing the task itself.

Question 3

A student who engages in self-injurious behavior during unexpected transitions is provided with a picture schedule displayed throughout the day. This intervention primarily reduces problem behavior by:

Accepted Answer

Increasing predictability and reducing uncertainty about upcoming events

Answer

Visual schedules are antecedent interventions that increase environmental predictability, thereby reducing the aversiveness of transitions as an antecedent trigger for problem behavior.

Question 4

A student consistently engages in disruptive behavior in one teacher's classroom but behaves appropriately in every other setting. A BCBA would describe the teacher's presence as:

Accepted Answer

A discriminative stimulus (SD) for problem behavior

Answer

When behavior reliably occurs in the presence of one stimulus but not others, that stimulus has acquired discriminative control. The teacher's presence functions as an SD signaling that problem behavior has been reinforced in that context.

Question 5

A child frequently reaches for food items left on the kitchen counter. Rather than relying solely on consequence-based strategies, the BCBA recommends removing all food from visible surfaces. This approach targets:

Accepted Answer

The motivating antecedent stimulus that evokes the behavior

Answer

Removing the visible food eliminates the antecedent stimulus that triggers food-seeking behavior, addressing the environmental cue that sets the occasion for the response before it can occur.

(ABAT) Applied Behavior Analysis Test Practice Test

(ABAT) Applied Behavior Analysis Test Practice Test

ABAT - Applied Behavior Analysis Test Applied Behavior Analysis Antecedent-Based Interventions 1