BAS Treatment Approaches and Interventions 3

Question 1

During a supervision session, a supervisee asks why Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA) is preferred over DRO for most clinical cases. The best answer is that DRA:

Accepted Answer

Builds a specific adaptive replacement skill in addition to reducing problem behavior

Answer

DRA is preferred because it simultaneously reduces problem behavior and teaches a functionally equivalent or adaptive replacement skill.

Question 2

A client's escape-maintained problem behavior is being treated with Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR) using escape on a fixed-time (FT) schedule. The supervisor should caution staff about which primary risk?

Accepted Answer

NCR on FT schedules accidentally reinforces problem behavior when the schedule and behavior coincide

Answer

With FT schedules, reinforcer delivery can accidentally coincide with problem behavior, inadvertently strengthening it through adventitious reinforcement.

Question 3

A supervisor is training staff on Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT). Which behavior is considered a 'pivotal' target because improving it produces collateral improvements across many other untargeted behaviors?

Accepted Answer

Motivation and child-initiated interactions

Answer

PRT targets pivotal areas like motivation and self-initiations because gains in these areas produce widespread collateral improvements across development.

Question 4

When conducting a preference assessment to identify reinforcers for a new treatment plan, which type provides the most direct, ecologically valid information about relative reinforcer value?

Accepted Answer

Multiple-stimulus without replacement (MSWO) free-operant preference assessment

Answer

MSWO assessments allow direct comparison of item preference under controlled conditions, yielding a ranked hierarchy that best predicts reinforcer efficacy.

Question 5

A supervisor is shaping a new vocal topography in a client with limited verbal behavior. The supervisee inadvertently jumps several steps forward in the shaping program. What is the most likely consequence?

Accepted Answer

Responding may extinguish because the new criterion is too far from the current repertoire to contact reinforcement

Answer

Skipping shaping steps means the client cannot emit the response required for reinforcement, causing extinction and possible behavioral breakdown.

(BAS) Behavior Analyst Supervisor Practice Test

(BAS) Behavior Analyst Supervisor Practice Test

BAS Treatment Approaches and Interventions 3