BCBA Behavior-Change Procedures Practice Questions
Domain G of the BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.) · 25 of the 175 scored questions (14%)
185 questions across all nine domains in 4 hours, with a score for behavior-change procedures so you know where you stand.
Free behavior-change procedures drillA speech-language team wants Marisol to label 16 action-object combinations (4 actions such as "pushing" and "washing" crossed with 4 objects such as "car" and "doll"). She can already tact all 8 words alone. Which teaching plan best uses matrix training to promote recombinative generalization?
Behavior-Change Procedures on the BCBA
Behavior-Change Procedures is the largest domain on the BCBA exam: 25 of the 175 scored questions across 19 tasks. It covers the procedures behavior analysts use every day, from differential reinforcement and token economies to prompting, shaping, chaining, generalization, maintenance and punishment.
- Share of the exam
- 25 of 175 scored questions (14%) on every exam form
- Outline tasks
- 19 (G.1 to G.19)
- Our drill
- 10 questions from 71 behavior-change procedures questions, untimed, an explanation after every answer; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What behavior-change procedures questions test
- Positive and negative reinforcement procedures, and differential reinforcement (DRA, DRI, DRO, DRL, DRH) with and without extinction (tasks G.1–G.2)
- Time-based schedules such as fixed-time and variable-time delivery (task G.3)
- Conditioned reinforcers and token economies (task G.4)
- Building motivating operations and discriminative stimuli into procedures (task G.5)
- Simple and conditional discriminations (task G.6)
- Prompting and prompt fading: errorless learning, most-to-least, least-to-most, prompt delay and stimulus fading (tasks G.7–G.8)
- Modeling, instructions and rules, shaping and chaining (tasks G.9–G.12)
- Trial-based and free-operant teaching, and group contingencies (tasks G.13–G.14)
- Generalization and maintenance: programming common stimuli, multiple exemplars, schedule thinning and natural reinforcers (tasks G.15–G.16)
- Punishment procedures (time-out, response cost, overcorrection), emotional and elicited effects, and emergent relations (tasks G.17–G.19)
Sit the full exam under the real clock
185 questions across all nine domains in 4 hours, with a score for behavior-change procedures so you know where you stand.
Free behavior-change procedures drillHow to study it
- Learn the DR procedures by what gets reinforced: an alternative behavior (DRA), an incompatible one (DRI), the absence of the behavior (DRO), or a lower or higher rate (DRL, DRH).
- Know when each prompting strategy fits: most-to-least for new skills and few errors, least-to-most when the learner may already know part of the skill.
- For chaining, know forward, backward and total-task presentation, and why backward chaining puts the terminal reinforcer right after the step being taught.
- Group contingencies come in three types: independent, dependent and interdependent. Learn one classroom example of each.
Common questions
What is the biggest domain on the BCBA exam?
Behavior-Change Procedures, with 25 of the 175 scored questions (14%) and 19 tasks. Concepts and Principles is close behind with 24.
Is punishment on the BCBA exam?
Yes. Task G.17 covers designing and evaluating positive and negative punishment, including time-out, response cost and overcorrection, and task G.18 covers the emotional and elicited effects of behavior-change procedures. Questions also test the conditions that make punishment more effective and the reasons to prefer reinforcement-based procedures first.
185 questions across all nine domains in 4 hours, with a score for behavior-change procedures so you know where you stand.
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Sources
Original practice questions for exam preparation, written to the BACB’s BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.) and the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts (2022). Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB). BCBA® and BACB® are registered trademarks of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board.