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 screaming is maintained by help with difficult tasks. Which intervention best reflects least intrusive effective practice? The plan must be usable by new staff during routine implementation.

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 InterventionIntervention Selection

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