Domains G and H
BCBA intervention practice questions for behavior-change and treatment-selection decisions
Intervention questions often hide the real decision point: whether the plan is function-based, feasible, least intrusive, teachable, and supported by the available data.
Intervention decision checks
- Confirm the function or teaching goal before choosing a behavior-change procedure.
- Prefer the least intrusive effective option that still fits the assessment results.
- Check whether the issue is acquisition, maintenance, generalization, relapse, or treatment integrity.
- Do not let a familiar procedure override feasibility, data, or stakeholder implementation needs.
Intervention questions to review first
Distractor patternsPositive and negative reinforcement procedures: Reinforcement and punishment by behavior change.
Adolescent is learning waiting for access, but performance changes depending on prompts and consequences. Which procedure best fits positive and negative reinforcement procedures? The case file includes 6 recent sessions, 2 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Reinforcement and punishment by behavior change
Differential reinforcement with and without extinction: Reinforcement and punishment by behavior change.
A program for using a clarification request is not producing independent performance. Which adjustment best reflects differential reinforcement with and without extinction? The case file includes 7 recent sessions, 2 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Reinforcement and punishment by behavior change
Time-based reinforcement schedules: Schedules, persistence, and response allocation.
Learner is learning requesting help, but performance changes depending on prompts and consequences. Which procedure best fits time-based reinforcement schedules? The case file includes 8 recent sessions, 2 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Schedules, persistence, and response allocation
Conditioned reinforcer procedures: Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences.
A program for following a visual schedule is not producing independent performance. Which adjustment best reflects conditioned reinforcer procedures? The case file includes 9 recent sessions, 2 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences
Motivating operations and discriminative stimuli in behavior change: Motivating operations versus discriminative stimuli.
Child is learning asking for a break, but performance changes depending on prompts and consequences. Which procedure best fits motivating operations and discriminative stimuli in behavior change? The case file includes 10 recent sessions, 2 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Motivating operations versus discriminative stimuli
Simple and conditional discrimination procedures: Discrimination and stimulus-control teaching procedures.
A program for completing a multi-step job routine is not producing independent performance. Which adjustment best reflects simple and conditional discrimination procedures? The case file includes 11 recent sessions, 2 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Discrimination and stimulus-control teaching procedures
Stimulus and response prompting procedures: Prompting and fading.
Adolescent is learning waiting for access, but performance changes depending on prompts and consequences. Which procedure best fits stimulus and response prompting procedures? The case file includes 12 recent sessions, 2 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Prompting and fading
Stimulus and response prompt fading: Prompting and fading.
A program for using a clarification request is not producing independent performance. Which adjustment best reflects stimulus and response prompt fading? The case file includes 2 recent sessions, 3 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Prompting and fading
Modeling procedures: Modeling, instructions, and rules.
Learner is learning requesting help, but performance changes depending on prompts and consequences. Which procedure best fits modeling procedures? The case file includes 3 recent sessions, 3 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Modeling, instructions, and rules
Instructions and rules: Modeling, instructions, and rules.
A program for following a visual schedule is not producing independent performance. Which adjustment best reflects instructions and rules? The case file includes 4 recent sessions, 3 implementers, and 2 settings.
Review focus: Modeling, instructions, and rules