Board Certified Behavior Analyst v1.0

Results of a functional assessment reveal that a child engages in hand-biting when she is in a room by herself. The likely function of behavior is:

You are working with a child on teaching swimming. You teach the child to do the front crawl. After a few weeks of teaching, the child is doing both the front crawl and also starts doing the breast stroke. What has occurred?

What if you teach the child to swim in a pool and the child goes to the beach and can do the front crawl in the ocean?

In reference to maintenance, functional arrangements between behavior and antecedent and consequence events that occur in the environment in which the behavior of interest is to be maintained are called:

A child who learns to say ג€redג€ when presented with a red card, also says ג€redג€ when presented with an orange card. This is called:

Which schedule of reinforcement is most effective at maintaining behaviors?

You are teaching David to clean the workshop to prepare him for working on the cleaning crew. Read the descriptions below and identify which is LEAST likely to promote generalization of the workshop cleaning skills to real-life cleaning jobs.

You are working with a client who finds physical touch to be aversive. When the person is off task, the program calls for you to give a warning by counting to 10; at that point, you gently touch him if he is not back on task. The touch remains until he returns to task. Please note that being touched is aversive for this particular individual. If the person gets back on task during counting, this is an example of:

If the person gets back on task when he is touched, this is an example of:

Staff alerts you that one of their clients seems to become aggressive when he has not consumed food for several hours. This phenomenon demonstrates the effect of a(n):

A child is exhibiting tantrum behaviors. You believe the tantrum is occurring for your attention. You therefore ignore the tantrum until it ceases while continuing daily activities. You note that the tantrums decrease over time. This is an example of:

Tokens are generally referred to as:

In self-control, where does the ultimate control lie? (Or, why is self-control a misnomer?)

Select the best staff training package: