Practice question
Selecting and Implementing Interventions

Select least intrusive effective interventions.

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

Question

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

Assessment suggests throwing materials is maintained by a break from demands. Which intervention best reflects least intrusive effective practice? The BCBA is checking whether the response matches the referral concern.

A
Begin with a highly intrusive punishment procedure
B
Ignore all behavior from the learner all day
C
Choose procedures based only on staff convenience
D
Teach and reinforce an appropriate response that accesses the same functional outcome

Correct answer

Explanation

Answer D

Function-based teaching and reinforcement are typically less intrusive and directly address the maintaining variable.

Why the other choices are weaker

A
Choice A

More intrusive procedures are not first-line when function-based reinforcement options are available.

B
Choice B

This is not a complete, individualized function-based plan.

C
Choice C

Interventions should be effective, ethical, feasible, and function-based.

Study tags

Least RestrictiveFunction-Based InterventionFunction-Based Intervention

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