Question

Difficulty: hard. Skill: analyze. Type: applied scenario.

During teaching, a student responds correctly with one example but errors increase with new materials and staff. Across 7 sessions in service week 8, 2 observers recorded 38 minutes of observation in the elementary classroom. The BCBA should:

A
Deliver the same consequence for the target response and the replacement response.
B
Use the person's learning history and the consequence's effect, not its common label, to classify it.

Correct answer

C
Train only one example and wait to see whether transfer happens naturally.
D
Keep the most intrusive prompt in place so errors stay low during teaching sessions.

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What this question tests

Conditioned reinforcer procedures: Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences. in Behavior-Change Procedures, with study tags for Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences, Conditioned reinforcer procedures, unconditioned reinforcer, conditioned reinforcer.

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Explanation

Answer B

The decision point is: Does the answer match the teaching or behavior-change procedure to the function, skill, and stimulus-control problem? This item specifically tests Conditioned reinforcer procedures through a applied-client-service-scenario format. The key clue is in the stem facts: During teaching, a student responds correctly with one example but errors increase with new materials and staff. Across 7 sessions in service week 8, 2 observers recorded 38 minutes of observation in the elementary classroom. The BCBA should: Answer B is strongest because it follows this rule: Use the person's learning history and the consequence's effect, not its common label, to classify it. It fits the source-backed rule without announcing that rule in the stem. The tempting mistake is to choose a shortcut before the scenario's prerequisite is satisfied. This choice treats a procedure or response form as enough. The scenario still requires matching the action to function, assessment results, or the decision rule. Exam move: name the missing prerequisite first, then eliminate answers that jump to a label, a familiar procedure, a single data point, or an undocumented action.

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Clue
Key scenario clue

During teaching, a student responds correctly with one example but errors increase with new materials and staff. Across 7 sessions in service week 8, 2 observers recorded 38 minutes of observation in the elementary classroom. The BCBA should:

Trap
Common trap

This choice treats a procedure or response form as enough. The scenario still requires matching the action to function, assessment results, or the decision rule.

Next
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Rule
Conditioned reinforcer procedures: Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences

Does the answer match the teaching or behavior-change procedure to the function, skill, and stimulus-control problem?

Clue
What the stem gives you

During teaching, a student responds correctly with one example but errors increase with new materials and staff. Across 7 sessions in service week 8, 2 observers recorded 38 minutes of observation in the elementary classroom. The BCBA should:

Trap
Common trap

Choose unconditioned when the stimulus acquired value through learning. This often shows up as calling all preferred items unconditioned reinforcers..

Fix
If you missed this item

Rewrite the miss as a rule: "When I see Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences, I must identify the relevant evidence before choosing the action." Then answer two related G domain questions without reading explanations first.

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Next drill

Practice 3 more questions tagged to Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences, then explain why each wrong answer is weaker before moving back to mixed practice.

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Why the other choices are weaker

A
Choice A

This choice treats a procedure or response form as enough. The scenario still requires matching the action to function, assessment results, or the decision rule.

C
Choice C

This choice overgeneralizes from limited evidence. The stronger answer checks the controlling variables before assuming the same relation holds elsewhere.

D
Choice D

This choice moves too quickly toward a more intrusive response. The better answer checks function, risk, feasibility, and less intrusive options first.

Study tags

Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequencesConditioned reinforcer proceduresunconditioned reinforcerconditioned reinforcer

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This practice question is tagged to Behavior-Change Procedures. It also includes study tags for Unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized consequences, Conditioned reinforcer procedures, unconditioned reinforcer, conditioned reinforcer.

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