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BCAT - FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE An activity schedule would be most appropriate when teaching which of the following skills? - answerGetting dressed Therapists/RBTs are responsible for collecting various types of data within ABA treatment sessions. Which of the following is NOT a type of data discussed within this training? - answerBehavior management Which of the following statements is true regarding data collection? - answerData should be taken during every ABA teaching session on all tar...

er staff members implement them. C. Make sure the data and the client are monitored for unintended side effects and the rate of progress. D. Make sure the intervention is used on only the days that the behaviors are really bad. - answerC The end goal is to generalize imitation skills so students are able to copy the behavior of: A. Peers. B. Teachers. C. Skill trainers/paraprofessionals. D. Parents. E. All of the above - answerE Another end goal of imitation training is for the learne...

BCAT Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) Positive reinforcement - answerGive something that increases behavior Negative reinforcement - answerTake something away that increases behavior Positive punishment - answerGive something that decreases behavior Negative punishment - answerTake something away that decreases behavior Reinforcer - answerA stimulus that increases the probability of a desired response Punisher - answerA stimulus that decreases the probability of a desired...

BCAT Certification Test Exam Questions With Verified Answers Latency - answerElapsed time from the onset of a stimulus to the initiation of a response Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity - answerranging, for example, from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions or affect, to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction - answ...

BCAT Practice Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) Which of the following statements is true? A. Accurate data is sometimes necessary for making sure that behavior change plans are relevant to the person receiving them. B. Accurate data is always necessary for building behavior change plans and measuring progress. C. If most of the data collected is accurate, then it will be enough to make decisions about the behavior. D. If only a small amount of data is collected over time...

BCAT Practice Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) Autism is a: A. Neurodevelopment Disorder B. Mood Disorder C. Metabolic Disorder - answerA ASD is characterized by: A. "Difficulties with reading, writing and math" B. "Difficulties in social interaction, communication and repetitive behaviors" C. "Difficulties with communication, acting out and academics" D. "Difficulties with following instructions and self harming" - answerB ABA is the cure for autism A. TRUE ...

BCAT Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Motivating Operations (MO) - answerAn environmental variable that alters the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event. Contingency - answerRefers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior an it's controlling variables. Satiation - answerRepeated presentation of a reinforcer weakens its effectiveness and for this reason the rate of responses declines. Positive Reinforcement - answerA type of reinforce...

BCAT Exam (Treatment: Skill Acquisition) Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) discrimination training - answeri) Using DTT to teach different labels, objects, or colors ii) Procedure that establishes stimulus control. iii) Example, teaching a student to discriminate between colors and "wh" questions. discrete trial training - answeri) The method allows for repeated presentations of trials ii) A trial is clearly and objectively defined. iii) It has three parts: SD, child re...

nd Updated) You are working with a 6-year-old girl with ASD. When her friend comes over to the house to play, your client only wants to play with her stuffed animals by lining them up. Her friend becomes bored of the same sequence and wants to play other games. The behavior of the your client is an example of Deficit in nonverbal communication Collaborative play Inflexibility with routine Lack of social-emotional reciprocity - answerInflexibility with routine A 4-year-old boy with ASD h...

BCAT Exam (Behavioral Data Collection) Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) Measurement dimensions (e.g., rate, duration, percentage) - answeri) Rate: add up the behaviors or items over time ii) Ex: Mary hits 4 them in two hours which equals to 2 times per hour iii) Duration: amount of times a behavior occurs Example: Mary cried from 10am to 10:16am. Thus, Mary cried for a total of 16 minutes. iv) Percentage: ratio form by combining the same dimensional quantities such as count ...