BACB Behavior Change Procedures

Question 1

Which prompting strategy fades prompts from the most intrusive to least intrusive over time?

Accepted Answer

Most-to-least prompting

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Least-to-most prompting

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Simultaneous prompting

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Time delay

Question 2

What is the key feature of a 'time delay' prompting procedure?

Accepted Answer

Adding a pause between the SD and a controlling prompt to allow the learner to respond independently

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Presenting the most intrusive prompt immediately after the SD

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Fading the physical properties of a prompt

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Using errorless teaching with no delay

Question 3

Which chaining method teaches all steps of a task simultaneously, with the trainer providing assistance on each step during every session?

Accepted Answer

Total task chaining

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Forward chaining

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Backward chaining

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Interrupted chain

Question 4

Backward chaining begins instruction at which step of a task analysis?

Accepted Answer

Last step

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First step

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Middle step

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Hardest step

Question 5

Which differential reinforcement procedure reinforces a behavior that is physically incompatible with the problem behavior?

Accepted Answer

DRI

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DRO

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DRL

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DRA

Question 6

What is the primary mechanism of functional communication training (FCT)?

Accepted Answer

Teaching a communicative response that produces the same reinforcement as the problem behavior

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Punishing problem behavior and ignoring communication

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Using extinction alone to reduce problem behavior

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Providing noncontingent reinforcement to eliminate the MO