BCAT Behavior Reduction Treatment 2

Question 1

A client repeatedly bangs their head on the table during work tasks. Which function of behavior is MOST likely if head-banging stops when the task is removed?

Accepted Answer

Escape

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Attention

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Tangible

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Automatic

Question 2

During extinction for attention-maintained behavior, a technician should:

Accepted Answer

Provide no attention contingent on the target behavior

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Redirect the client to a preferred activity

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Withhold all reinforcement including task demands

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Use a DRO schedule to reinforce the absence of behavior

Question 3

Which schedule of reinforcement makes a behavior MOST resistant to extinction?

Accepted Answer

Variable ratio

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Fixed ratio

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Fixed interval

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Continuous reinforcement

Question 4

A BCBA instructs you to implement FCT. Your primary goal as the technician is to:

Accepted Answer

Teach an alternative communicative response that produces the same reinforcer

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Punish the problem behavior every time it occurs

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Eliminate all reinforcement to reduce the target behavior

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Increase the effort required to perform the problem behavior

Question 5

A client engages in self-injurious behavior (SIB) only when alone and continues even without an audience. This suggests the behavior is maintained by:

Accepted Answer

Automatic reinforcement

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Social positive reinforcement

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Social negative reinforcement

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Tangible reinforcement

Question 6

When using DRI (Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior), the replacement behavior must be:

Accepted Answer

Physically impossible to perform at the same time as the problem behavior

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Topographically similar to the problem behavior

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Easier to perform than the problem behavior

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Maintained by a different function than the problem behavior

Question 7

A client's aggression increases after extinction is implemented. This is called an:

Accepted Answer

Extinction burst

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Behavioral contrast

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Spontaneous recovery

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Resurgence