BAS Treatment Approaches and Interventions 2

Question 1

A supervisor is reviewing a client's behavior intervention plan that uses extinction. Which scenario best illustrates an extinction burst the team should be prepared for?

Accepted Answer

The target behavior temporarily increases in frequency and intensity before declining

Answer

An extinction burst is a temporary increase in the frequency, duration, or intensity of the target behavior when reinforcement is first withheld.

Question 2

When implementing Functional Communication Training (FCT), the supervisor ensures that the mand taught to replace problem behavior has which critical property?

Accepted Answer

It must produce the same reinforcer that was maintaining the problem behavior

Answer

FCT works because the replacement mand accesses the same maintaining reinforcer as the problem behavior, making it functionally equivalent.

Question 3

A BAS is designing a token economy for a classroom. Which feature is most critical to include to maintain the tokens' conditioned reinforcing value?

Accepted Answer

Pairing tokens consistently with backup reinforcers during exchanges

Answer

Tokens maintain their conditioned reinforcing value through consistent pairing with backup reinforcers at exchange.

Question 4

A supervisor is using a Concurrent Operants framework to explain why a client chooses problem behavior over communication. According to matching law, what change would most directly shift responding toward the communication response?

Accepted Answer

Increasing the rate and immediacy of reinforcement for the communication response

Answer

Matching law predicts that behavior allocates toward the response alternative with the higher reinforcement rate and immediacy.

Question 5

Which component distinguishes Behavioral Skills Training (BST) from simple instruction-based training for staff?

Accepted Answer

BST includes instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback as a combined package

Answer

BST is a comprehensive package combining instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and performance feedback to build behavioral skills.

(BAS) Behavior Analyst Supervisor Practice Test

(BAS) Behavior Analyst Supervisor Practice Test

BAS Treatment Approaches and Interventions 2