BCAT 2026 EXAMINERS SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔DTT 3 Step Process - ✔✔Used with successive presentation: 1. Mass trial target 1
alone 2. Mass trial target 2 alone 3. RR targets 1 and 2
✔✔DTT 7 Step Process - ✔✔Used with simultaneous presentation: 1. MT Target 1
alone 2. MT Target 1 with unknown 3. MT Target 2 alone 4. MT Target 2 with unknown
5. MT Target 1 with Target 2 present 6. MT T2 with T1 present 7. Randomly rotate
Target 1 and Target 2
✔✔DTT 4 Step Process - ✔✔Simultaneous presentation 1. MT current target alone 2.
Mass trial current target with unknown 3. MT current target with one or more known
distracters 4. Randomly rotate current target with one or more previously mastered
targets
✔✔Types of Consequence Based Interventions - ✔✔1. Extinction
2. Response Cost
3. Time out
✔✔Distracter Trials - ✔✔Additional trials of known or mastered targets that do not
include the acquisition target used to teach discrimination
, ✔✔Distracter Item - ✔✔Known or unknown item used in simultaneous presentation to
teach discrimination
✔✔Successive Discrimination Training - ✔✔The target and distracters occur across
successive trials
✔✔Simultaneous Discrimination Training - ✔✔Multiple objects are placed in front of a
child and he or she is asked to touch, point to, or pick up one of the items (*Field of
stimuli)
✔✔Steps to Shaping - ✔✔1. Identify problem behavior
2. Identify first approximation
3. Reinforce first approximation until it starts to occur consistently
4. Raise criterion for reinforcement to a closer approximation of the target behavior, no
longer reinforce previous approximation
5. Continue until child learns target behavior
✔✔Prompt Fading - ✔✔The systematic removal of a prompt across successive trials so
that stimulus control is transferred from the prompt to the target SD
✔✔Prompt - ✔✔A stimulus is presented in addition to the SD that evokes the target
response
✔✔Time Delay - ✔✔A type of prompt fading. Increasing the elapsed time between the
presentation of the target SD and the prompt across trials
✔✔Pacing - ✔✔The speed at which the trials are being presented (Time delay b/w
trials; Inter-trial interval)
✔✔Simple Prompt Fading - ✔✔The partial removal or reduction of a specific type of
prompt across successive trials
✔✔2 seconds - ✔✔The guideline for inter-trial interval length
✔✔Error Correction - ✔✔Any procedure implemented to correct an incorrect or no
response that provides opportunities for the child to engage in the correct response in
the presence of a specific SD.
✔✔Intermittent Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcing some but not all instances of a specific
behavior. This is used when maintaining bx's that are already mastered.
✔✔Continuous Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcing every occurence of a specific behavior.
This is used when teaching new behaviors.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔DTT 3 Step Process - ✔✔Used with successive presentation: 1. Mass trial target 1
alone 2. Mass trial target 2 alone 3. RR targets 1 and 2
✔✔DTT 7 Step Process - ✔✔Used with simultaneous presentation: 1. MT Target 1
alone 2. MT Target 1 with unknown 3. MT Target 2 alone 4. MT Target 2 with unknown
5. MT Target 1 with Target 2 present 6. MT T2 with T1 present 7. Randomly rotate
Target 1 and Target 2
✔✔DTT 4 Step Process - ✔✔Simultaneous presentation 1. MT current target alone 2.
Mass trial current target with unknown 3. MT current target with one or more known
distracters 4. Randomly rotate current target with one or more previously mastered
targets
✔✔Types of Consequence Based Interventions - ✔✔1. Extinction
2. Response Cost
3. Time out
✔✔Distracter Trials - ✔✔Additional trials of known or mastered targets that do not
include the acquisition target used to teach discrimination
, ✔✔Distracter Item - ✔✔Known or unknown item used in simultaneous presentation to
teach discrimination
✔✔Successive Discrimination Training - ✔✔The target and distracters occur across
successive trials
✔✔Simultaneous Discrimination Training - ✔✔Multiple objects are placed in front of a
child and he or she is asked to touch, point to, or pick up one of the items (*Field of
stimuli)
✔✔Steps to Shaping - ✔✔1. Identify problem behavior
2. Identify first approximation
3. Reinforce first approximation until it starts to occur consistently
4. Raise criterion for reinforcement to a closer approximation of the target behavior, no
longer reinforce previous approximation
5. Continue until child learns target behavior
✔✔Prompt Fading - ✔✔The systematic removal of a prompt across successive trials so
that stimulus control is transferred from the prompt to the target SD
✔✔Prompt - ✔✔A stimulus is presented in addition to the SD that evokes the target
response
✔✔Time Delay - ✔✔A type of prompt fading. Increasing the elapsed time between the
presentation of the target SD and the prompt across trials
✔✔Pacing - ✔✔The speed at which the trials are being presented (Time delay b/w
trials; Inter-trial interval)
✔✔Simple Prompt Fading - ✔✔The partial removal or reduction of a specific type of
prompt across successive trials
✔✔2 seconds - ✔✔The guideline for inter-trial interval length
✔✔Error Correction - ✔✔Any procedure implemented to correct an incorrect or no
response that provides opportunities for the child to engage in the correct response in
the presence of a specific SD.
✔✔Intermittent Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcing some but not all instances of a specific
behavior. This is used when maintaining bx's that are already mastered.
✔✔Continuous Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcing every occurence of a specific behavior.
This is used when teaching new behaviors.
