You are a BCBA consulting with a teacher in a general education setting. She has one student who continues to talk to his peers sitting next to him during lecture. The teacher asks him to stop, but he continues. The teacher eventually asks him to sit in the hall because he is being disruptive. The next couple of days in class, the student continues to talk to his peers and the teacher continues to send him out in the hall. The teacher tells you that it is so much easier to teach when the student is out in the hall. The teacher’s continued behavior in throwing the student out of class is due to…

You are a BCBA who works with a young client in an ABA clinic. Before she started Kindergarten, you worked toward goals that would help her succeed in school (e.g., social skills). You continue to work on these goals with her now that she is in school.  You would like to ask the teacher how things are going in class, so you can inquire about generalization. If you go straight to the teacher and ask about the child’s progress, you are violating….  

Please put the following, numbered graphs measuring the number of mands for preferred items in order of those graphs that show no/least experimental control to those graphs that show the most experimental control.

You are a student completing your BCBA required courses and you are asked to write up a proposal for a single-case study you would like to conduct. You write up a rough version for your professor to look over. It includes: This single-case study will include three participants ages 16 to 18 years old diagnosed with developmental disabilities during school lunch in the cafeteria. A multiple baseline design across participants will be implemented measuring social skills. These social skills include peer interactions (i.e., saying hello/hi/hey to a peer next to or across from them at the lunch table, asking at least 2 questions about the peer, and answering every question that is posed by the peer to the participant). Data collection will occur every day of the school week (i.e., Monday through Friday) for 3 consecutive weeks. Your professor looks over your rough proposal and tells you that you are missing a key component of single-case design. Which component is missing?

A child is working on advanced verbal behavior skills in their educational program. This consists of engaging in listening behavior and spelling written words that are dictated by the behavioral therapist. What type verbal behavior is being targeted?

Rosa has educational goals to learn to speak English. Her therapist presents pictures of preferred items, states the label in English, and prompts Rosa to repeat them. Over time, the therapist stops labeling items and begins to present Rosa with a variety of pictures of the same items. The therapist is utilizing ___________ to teach Rosa.

You are a BCBA working with a non-verbal child in middle school. You observe the child and talk to family. You come up with the overall conclusion that the child only requests what he wants by grunting. Those around the child do not know what he wants or needs, so you make that your first priority in skill acquisition. Which core principle does this best represent?

The traditional and formal views of the properties of language involve the:

You have just completed an FBA on a child in a general education classroom setting. You have hypothesized that the challenging behavior is maintained by access to peer attention. Which antecedent intervention strategy would be the most appropriate in this situation?

You are working as a BCBA within a home setting with a seven-year old client who is struggling to learn an intraverbal response related to the feature of an item during a discrete trial training session. Although the client has responded to prompting provided by the BCBA, there has been difficulty fading the prompts for this child. The child has not responded independently after several teaching sessions. The BCBA decides to utilize a previously mastered tact to help teach this skill. What type of procedure is being used in this scenario?