Practice question
Personnel Supervision and Management

Evaluate treatment integrity before changing a plan.

Original BCBA scenario practice question with answer explanation and wrong-choice notes.

Question

Difficulty: medium. Skill: apply. Type: applied scenario.

A BCBA reviews data showing an increase in aggression after a new intervention began. Direct observation shows staff rarely prompt the replacement response and deliver reinforcement inconsistently. What should the BCBA do next?

A
Discontinue the plan immediately because aggression increased
B
Retrain staff and monitor treatment integrity

Correct answer

C
Add a punishment procedure to suppress aggression
D
Continue without changes because extinction bursts are expected

Explanation

Answer B

The data cannot be interpreted as intervention failure until the plan is implemented correctly. The next step is staff retraining and integrity monitoring.

Why the other choices are weaker

A
Choice A

This changes the plan before checking whether it was implemented as designed.

C
Choice C

This adds a more intrusive procedure without first addressing integrity.

D
Choice D

The scenario gives evidence of poor implementation, not merely an expected temporary increase.

Study tags

SupervisionTreatment IntegrityData Interpretation

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