BCBA Readiness Test

10 questions, balanced across the exam's topics. Answer each one, then submit for your practice readiness estimate and per-topic breakdown. This is a practice estimate — not a prediction or guarantee of your official exam result.

Question 1

A manufacturing company's safety practices persist across decades: each cohort of new hires is trained by veteran employees, safe practices are reinforced, and unsafe ones are corrected, so the practices outlive any individual worker. This is an example of selection at which level?

Question 2

A nonvocal child tantrums to obtain toys. The BCBA teaches picture exchange to request toys; tantrums decrease as picture requests increase. This is an example of:

Question 3

In a reversal design, the second A phase (return to baseline) primarily serves to:

Question 4

A supervisor runs group supervision where the three most advanced trainees dominate discussion; the four novices never receive individual feedback. The structural fix is:

Question 5

A BCBA writes a behavior plan for parents and teachers to implement. The procedures section must:

Question 6

An analyst suspects child abuse based on observations during a session. The analyst should:

Question 7

Aggression drops from a stable baseline of 15 per day to 2 per day beginning in the very first intervention session, with no other changes reported. In visual analysis, the strongest evidence for experimental control here is:

Question 8

A behavior occurs at 12 responses per minute when the client is alone, 11 per minute with staff present but ignoring, and 12 per minute during a control play condition. The most likely function is:

Question 9

An analyst defines aggression as any instance of hitting, kicking, or biting with an open or closed hand or foot making forceful contact with another person body. This is an:

Question 10

The statement all behavior, public or private, is subject to the same behavioral principles describes which core tenet?

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