BCBA concepts and principles practice questions

10 questions · Untimed · Explanation after each question

Reinforcement and punishment, schedules, extinction, stimulus control, motivating operations, verbal operants, emergent relations, behavioral momentum and the matching law. Domain B of the BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.): 24 of the 175 scored questions.

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Every question has four options and one correct or best answer, as on the real exam. Each explanation says why the answer is right and why the most tempting wrong answer is wrong; measurement questions show the arithmetic and ethics questions name the Code standard.
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