BCBA Behavior Reduction and Antecedent Interventions

Question 1

Which antecedent intervention involves altering setting events or motivating operations to reduce the value of problem behavior reinforcers?

Accepted Answer

Abolishing operation manipulation

Answer

Manipulating abolishing operations (AOs) reduces the effectiveness of the reinforcer maintaining problem behavior, thereby decreasing the likelihood of that behavior.

Question 2

Non-contingent reinforcement (NCR) reduces problem behavior primarily by:

Accepted Answer

Abolishing the motivating operation maintaining problem behavior

Answer

NCR delivers the reinforcer on a time-based schedule independent of behavior, which serves as an abolishing operation that reduces the value of that reinforcer and the problem behavior it maintains.

Question 3

Functional Communication Training (FCT) replaces problem behavior by teaching a communicative response that:

Accepted Answer

Accesses the same reinforcer as the problem behavior

Answer

FCT is effective because the alternative communicative response produces the same reinforcer that was maintaining the problem behavior, making the new response equally or more efficient.

Question 4

Which procedure involves the systematic removal of a preferred item or activity contingent on problem behavior?

Accepted Answer

Response cost

Answer

Response cost is a penalty-based punishment procedure in which a specified amount of a conditioned positive reinforcer is removed following problem behavior.

Question 5

A behavior analyst recommends high-probability request sequences before asking a learner to complete a low-probability task. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Behavior momentum

Answer

Behavioral momentum uses a series of high-p requests reinforced before the low-p request to build compliance momentum and reduce problem behavior associated with transitions.

BCBA - Board Certified Behavior Analyst Practice Test

BCBA - Board Certified Behavior Analyst Practice Test

BCBA Behavior Reduction and Antecedent Interventions