FBA ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ When behavior is maintained by social positive reinforcement, what
intervention might be chosen to match this function (choose all that apply):.
Answer: attention extinction, non-contingent attention, enriched
environment
◍ The major premise of Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior, is that verbal
behavior is what?.
Answer: Functional
◍ Mary is a BCBA who is consulting to a public school classroom where she
has written several programs for students to increase performance across a
variety of academic skills. Mary is concerned that the data for the programs
are highly variable. Mary's first step in rectifying this issue should be:.
Answer: Collect Data on treatment integrity
◍ The three levels of science include.
Answer: Description, prediction, and control
◍ A Functional Relationship is Confirmed when.
Answer: A change in one variable (antecedents and/or consequences)
reliably influences levels of interfering behavior
◍ a behavior whose rate and form are governed by its consequences.
Answer: operant
◍ In this type of preference assessment, the learner is exposed to many stimuli
at one time and after selection of a stimulus, is given time to engages with
this stimulus. After they have finished engagement with the stimulus, the
stimulus is unavailable for the remainder of the trials..
Answer: MSWO
,◍ To investigate behaviors of social significance..
Answer: Applied
◍ Stimuli that are identified through trial based preference assessment are
_____ likely to serve as a reinforcer than those identified through an
interview preferenceassessment..
Answer: More
◍ An FBA is the process of looking at relationships between the environment
and behavior. (T/F?).
Answer: True
◍ You are conducting a standard (extended) FA with your student, Jimmy.
Jimmy engages in aggression in the form of hitting or slapping. One of the
conditions of theFA you are running is the escape condition. How will you
set up the antecedent component to test for escape?.
Answer: Present a demand to Jimmy
◍ Tact.
Answer: Non-verbal stimulus, seeing swings when driving past
◍ Is the following a topographical or functional operational definition?After
voiding in the toilet, placing hand on flushing handle, pressing down with
enough force that results in water exiting the toilet bowl, then releasing the
handle..
Answer: Functional
◍ FBA Process.
Answer: 1. Inquiring (Indirect FBA) 2. Documenting (Descriptive FBA) 3.
Hypothesis Testing and Verifying (Experimental FBA) 4. Test Driving and
Demonstrating (Treatment Analysis) 5. Validating (Intervention and
Progress Monitoring)
◍ The high-p request sequence, if effective, _____ the value of reinforcement
for noncompliance..
Answer: decrease
, ◍ Which condition is typically used as a control condition in a functional
analysis?.
Answer: Play
◍ Fred's teacher conducted an FBA and identified his behavior, ripping his
paper, was potentially maintained by social negative reinforcement. The
function based treatment of an escape extinction is what?.
Answer: Consequence intervention
◍ Every time Sara's mother asks her to make her bed Sara yells, "Leave me
alone!" and stomps out of her room. Sara's mother sighs and makes the bed
herself. What is your hypothesized function (and principle) of Sara's
problem behavior?.
Answer: Escape (Social negative reinforcement)
◍ Descriptive Assessment Methods.
Answer: Direct observation (natural settings) and real-time recording of
interfering behaviors and associated antecedents and consequences
◍ An assumption of offering choices as an intervention strategy is:.
Answer: As aversiveness of task decreases; problem behavior decreases
◍ Indirect Assessments.
Answer: The assessment of behavior using information provided by
teachers, parents, staff, and in some cases the referred student
◍ Experimental Analysis.
Answer: An assessment model in which environmental events are
systematically manipulated and examined within single-case experimental
designs
◍ To answer the question, "When I see this, I see that," we conduct a
________. To answer the question, "When I did this, I saw that," we
conduct a _________..
Answer: Descriptive assessment/ Functional Analysis
◍ The VB MAPP and the ABLLS-R are two behavioral assessments looking
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ When behavior is maintained by social positive reinforcement, what
intervention might be chosen to match this function (choose all that apply):.
Answer: attention extinction, non-contingent attention, enriched
environment
◍ The major premise of Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior, is that verbal
behavior is what?.
Answer: Functional
◍ Mary is a BCBA who is consulting to a public school classroom where she
has written several programs for students to increase performance across a
variety of academic skills. Mary is concerned that the data for the programs
are highly variable. Mary's first step in rectifying this issue should be:.
Answer: Collect Data on treatment integrity
◍ The three levels of science include.
Answer: Description, prediction, and control
◍ A Functional Relationship is Confirmed when.
Answer: A change in one variable (antecedents and/or consequences)
reliably influences levels of interfering behavior
◍ a behavior whose rate and form are governed by its consequences.
Answer: operant
◍ In this type of preference assessment, the learner is exposed to many stimuli
at one time and after selection of a stimulus, is given time to engages with
this stimulus. After they have finished engagement with the stimulus, the
stimulus is unavailable for the remainder of the trials..
Answer: MSWO
,◍ To investigate behaviors of social significance..
Answer: Applied
◍ Stimuli that are identified through trial based preference assessment are
_____ likely to serve as a reinforcer than those identified through an
interview preferenceassessment..
Answer: More
◍ An FBA is the process of looking at relationships between the environment
and behavior. (T/F?).
Answer: True
◍ You are conducting a standard (extended) FA with your student, Jimmy.
Jimmy engages in aggression in the form of hitting or slapping. One of the
conditions of theFA you are running is the escape condition. How will you
set up the antecedent component to test for escape?.
Answer: Present a demand to Jimmy
◍ Tact.
Answer: Non-verbal stimulus, seeing swings when driving past
◍ Is the following a topographical or functional operational definition?After
voiding in the toilet, placing hand on flushing handle, pressing down with
enough force that results in water exiting the toilet bowl, then releasing the
handle..
Answer: Functional
◍ FBA Process.
Answer: 1. Inquiring (Indirect FBA) 2. Documenting (Descriptive FBA) 3.
Hypothesis Testing and Verifying (Experimental FBA) 4. Test Driving and
Demonstrating (Treatment Analysis) 5. Validating (Intervention and
Progress Monitoring)
◍ The high-p request sequence, if effective, _____ the value of reinforcement
for noncompliance..
Answer: decrease
, ◍ Which condition is typically used as a control condition in a functional
analysis?.
Answer: Play
◍ Fred's teacher conducted an FBA and identified his behavior, ripping his
paper, was potentially maintained by social negative reinforcement. The
function based treatment of an escape extinction is what?.
Answer: Consequence intervention
◍ Every time Sara's mother asks her to make her bed Sara yells, "Leave me
alone!" and stomps out of her room. Sara's mother sighs and makes the bed
herself. What is your hypothesized function (and principle) of Sara's
problem behavior?.
Answer: Escape (Social negative reinforcement)
◍ Descriptive Assessment Methods.
Answer: Direct observation (natural settings) and real-time recording of
interfering behaviors and associated antecedents and consequences
◍ An assumption of offering choices as an intervention strategy is:.
Answer: As aversiveness of task decreases; problem behavior decreases
◍ Indirect Assessments.
Answer: The assessment of behavior using information provided by
teachers, parents, staff, and in some cases the referred student
◍ Experimental Analysis.
Answer: An assessment model in which environmental events are
systematically manipulated and examined within single-case experimental
designs
◍ To answer the question, "When I see this, I see that," we conduct a
________. To answer the question, "When I did this, I saw that," we
conduct a _________..
Answer: Descriptive assessment/ Functional Analysis
◍ The VB MAPP and the ABLLS-R are two behavioral assessments looking
