BACB Measurement and Data Collection

Question 1

Which measurement dimension records the number of times a behavior occurs within an observation period?

Accepted Answer

Frequency (count)

Answer

Duration

Answer

Latency

Answer

Interresponse time

Question 2

What measurement dimension captures the elapsed time from the onset of a behavior to its offset?

Accepted Answer

Duration

Answer

Frequency

Answer

Latency

Answer

Interresponse time

Question 3

Which recording method involves observing and recording behavior during brief, equally spaced time intervals and noting whether the behavior occurred at all during each interval?

Accepted Answer

Partial-interval recording

Answer

Whole-interval recording

Answer

Momentary time sampling

Answer

Continuous recording

Question 4

Which time-sampling method records whether the behavior is occurring at the exact moment the interval ends?

Accepted Answer

Momentary time sampling

Answer

Whole-interval recording

Answer

Partial-interval recording

Answer

Event recording

Question 5

What is interobserver agreement (IOA), and why is it important in ABA research?

Accepted Answer

A measure of how closely two independent observers' data match, ensuring measurement reliability

Answer

A statistical test for significance between groups

Answer

A method for calculating treatment effect size

Answer

A way to assess social validity of an intervention

Question 6

Which IOA calculation method divides each observation session into smaller intervals and calculates agreement interval by interval?

Accepted Answer

Exact count per interval IOA

Answer

Total count IOA

Answer

Mean count per interval IOA

Answer

Proportional IOA