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BCBA BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Prepare effectively for your BACB BCBA Board Certified Behavior Analyst certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.

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Teaching a child to match printed words to pictures, then pictures to the actual objects, and then testing to determine if the child can now match printed words to the actual objects is known as:

A.

PECS

B.

Discrete trial training

C.

Verbal behavior training

D.

Stimulus equivalence

An experimenter examines the level of noise in a school bus full of children under the following conditions: baseline, rock music, baseline, classical music. In this experiment, the dependent variable is:

A.

Time

B.

The number of children on the bus

C.

The level of noise

D.

The type of music

If a behavior analyst states, “It took four attempts, but Johnny completed the puzzle,” she is using which measure?

A.

Whole interval

B.

Percent of occurrence

C.

Trials to criterion

D.

Frequency

Trials to criterion refers to a measure of

A.

fluency.

B.

performance.

C.

rate of correct responding.

D.

interobserver agreement.

Jamie frequently falls to the floor and screams at school. Preliminary behavioral assessment data indicate that his tantrums are maintained by attention and escape from demand situations. Jamie's behavior analyst wants to examine precisely how attention and escape conditions affect these behaviors. The behavior analyst does not want to conduct the analysis in Jamie's classroom because she would not be able to control for potentially important factors. Relating to this scenario, which statement is TRUE?

A.

Analyses that involve experimental conditions are almost always conducted in the person's natural environment.

B.

The behavior analyst could conduct the analysis in a vacant classroom, but the generality of the findings is an issue to be considered.

C.

The behavior analyst should conduct detailed interviews with the teacher and school staff to determine functional relations.

D.

Only if the analysis is conducted in Jamie's classroom can a reasonable hypothesis be generated.

The BEST definition for mouthing behavior would be any instance of LukE.

A.

placing his mouth on any object for at least 5 seconds.

B.

placing his open mouth on a non-nutritive object or placing a non-nutritive object in his mouth.

C.

making contact with his mouth to any non-nutritive object.

D.

mouthing a non-nutritive item for 3 or more consecutive instances within a 30 second interval.

When asked why a certain behavior happened, the behavior analyst states that the behavior “came out of nowhere.” If the behavior analyst meant what he said, he is violating the assumption of __________________.

A.

Philosophical doubt

B.

Determinism

C.

Technological

D.

Being conceptually systematic

The reinforcement schedule that produces a high steady rate of responding is:

A.

FI.

B.

FR.

C.

VI.

D.

VR.

What is the next step in the assessment process if data from the functional analysis do NOT support the original hypothesis?

A.

Base the intervention on the original hypothesis and re-assess after a time lapse.

B.

Design a package intervention to address all possible functions of the behavior.

C.

Continue to conduct the functional assessment until the data coincides with the original hypothesis.

D.

Alter the hypothesis regarding the maintaining variable of the behavior based on the results of the functional assessment.

Jimmy is watching his favorite Saturday morning cartoon and playing with his train set. The cat walks past him and he pulls its tail. Jimmy's mother takes away one of his train cars. This is an example oF.

A.

response intervention.

B.

antecedent manipulation.

C.

response cost.

D.

overcorrection.

When developing a task analysis, a behavior analyst would first:

A.

assess the mastery level of the individual.

B.

conduct a functional assessment of the target skills.

C.

determine the necessary component steps.

D.

observe the individual to collect baseline data.

A study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of time-out for physical aggression. The time-out procedure would be considered the:

A.

baseline measure.

B.

dependent variable.

C.

independent variable.

D.

response measure.

The number of time intervals in a specific period of time during which a response occurs continuously for an entire interval is which measure?

A.

Partial-interval recording

B.

Whole-interval recording

C.

Momentary time sampling

D.

Percentage of occurrence

A behavior analyst is conducting research on the accuracy of a student's responding to written math problems based on the final answer with no scoring of intermediate calculations. Which is the BEST method for obtaining accurate inter-observer agreement results?

A.

Researcher and observer sit together to score the student's work.

B.

Photocopies of the student's work are scored independently by researcher and observer.

C.

The student's scratch paper is scored if researcher and observer do not agree on a response.

D.

Researcher scores the student's work and the observer reviews the researcher's scores for accuracy.

Tony is supervising a work crew at the post office. Every day, his clients are supposed to check each waste bin and empty those that contain trash. Tony takes data on the number of waste bins emptied by the crew. In order to report data in terms of percentage of occurrence Tony MUST also know:

A.

that some waste bins contained trash.

B.

how many waste bins contained trash.

C.

how many waste bins were in the office.

D.

This behavior is not amenable to percent of occurrence reporting.

A behavior analyst is adhering to which underlying assumption of behavior analysis when she conducts several tests of her treatment before she writes it in a formal behavior program?

A.

Determinism

B.

Law of parsimony

C.

Empiricism

D.

None of the above

Although tests have confirmed that Matthew is not deaf, his mother is worried because Matthew is very slow to respond when she calls to him. Frequently, she has to resort to touching him before he looks at her. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate for measuring Matthew looking when called?

A.

latency

B.

frequency

C.

inter-response time

D.

duration

For which of the following would it be appropriate to measure duration?

A.

Amy responds very slowly to instructions during her discrete trials teaching sessions.

B.

Ethan leaves his work station and wanders around the building.

C.

Sarah takes so long to begin her math assignments in class that she is never able to finish on time.

D.

Ryan is trying to increase the speed of his typing at the computer keyboard.

Which of the following is NOT a dimension of applied behavior analysis?

A.

Effective

B.

Technological

C.

Applied

D.

Empirical

Speed, magnitude, durability and generality of effect are some of the MOST important

A.

dimensions of behavior that lend themselves to quantification more readily than others.

B.

variables that are overlooked by other social sciences in solving problems.

C.

variables to consider when selecting reinforcers and punishers.

D.

components of treatment packages used in treating the most severe behavior problems.

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