I PASSED THE BCBA EXAM TODAY!!!! Your videos were extremely helpful in learning how to break down questions, and really figure out what was being asked! I am so excited!! THANK YOU for the content available on TH-cam to review and learn from! :)
ashlynvanderburg7672! That is so amazing! Congratulations! Send us an email and we will send you your first CEU course totally free! Info@behavioranalystsupervisor.com
You guys!!!! I passed yesterday and I have to say this video in addition to your other weekly videos (plus cooper quizzes and studying) really helped me pass 🙏 I literally heard Kevin’s voice in my head and talked my self through each question. As a second time tester and over thinker this method really helped me with my confidence in answering. I can’t thank you all enough for offering for free. I spend a lot of money on another , well known test prep company and it just want the same as how you all dissect the questions! Thank you a thousand times over❤❤
2:30:59 I answered C because "asking peers for rides to work" could be a behavioral cusp that will allow the client the ability to get and maintain a job. At 17 years old, that is really significant, opens up the opportunity to earn money and access pretty much any other reinforcer, and is a "milestone" which the question took words to emphasize was important. so it's enough for me to pick that answer even if it is correct in that it doesn't generalize too much beyond that.
Thanks for the commend Andrew! I think the key here is as many milestones as possible. The support page will open the door to many, many different things including clubs, tutoring, rides even. Whereas asking peers for rides to work is more limited. I hope this helps.
@@showmeTDs Remember that a behavior cusp opens the door to many new reinforcers. Asking peers for a ride to work opens the door to one reinforcer, and using the support page opens the door to many reinforcers allowing her to meet more milestones. We always want to answer the question being asked. Here the scenario wants us to choose the answer that allows for more milestones to be met. To be clear, asking for a ride to work is one milestone, the support page can allow access to many milestones. We do appreciate your opinion though.
@@behavioranalystsupervisori8906 if the question is specifically asking for milestones, then I’m more on board with the answer of web support if it is more closely answering what was asked. I’d still wonder whether being able to make money as a result of being able to access work, could lead to “milestones” in the future. I think I’m not really clear on what the question means by “Milestones” which leaves a lot of room for subjective interpretation like this, where we both have valid reasons for our answers.
1:49:00 Asks, "MOST LIKELY LEARNED the following except..." We reflect on the scenario which gives the possibility that the child is manding for "swing." With verbal operants, in order to have the skill of manding, a learner must know how to tact the item. In the question, we can assume that tacting was already in the learners repertoire and was therefor manding for swing. Following that, the echoic of "favorite." which leaves a) intraverbal as the exception. Compared to 3:15:00 where it asks, "the child has DEMONSTRATED the following except" .. this question is not asking what the child might have already learned but rather what the child has demonstrated in the scenario. which leaves b) tact Hope this helps clarify the first question! :)
This is a good way to look at it. The Cooper book specifically states that "Resurgence refers to the reoccurrence of a previously reinforced behavior when reinforcement for an alternative behavior is terminated or decreased and to the three-phase procedure that produces the effect: (1) A target behavior is reinforced, (2) the target behavior is placed on extinction and reinforcement is provided for an alternative behavior, and (3) both responses are placed on extinction." Cooper et al, p. 799, 2020).
Okay but i learned the difference between resurgence & spontaneous recovery and although they're similar i learned that the difference is resurgence means a bx previously placed on EXT reoccurring because it no longer has received SR for the problem bx. And that spontaneous recovery is when a previous bx has been on EXT but reoccurs out of no where without explicit resason. Thats why i thought question 2 was A.) Becuase there didnt seem to be any signs that the bx of thumb sucking was no longer receiving any SR. All the mock questions I've answered were correct when it came to questions about the differences with resurgence and spontaneous recovery. @behavioranalystsupervisori8906
Intraverbals involve responding to the speech of another person that is not directly echoed but contextually relevant. An appropriate intraverbal response to “Is the swing your favorite?” would be “yes” or “no.” The child’s response “favorite” is not an intraverbal response but an echo of the last word in the question. Manding involves making requests or demands. The initial word “swing” could be interpreted as a request to go on the swing, which shows manding behavior. Tacting involves labeling or identifying objects or events in the environment. The child’s initial utterance of “swing” labels the object of interest, indicating tacting behavior. Echoing involves repeating exactly what another person says. In this scenario, the child repeats the word “favorite” after hearing it in the question. This demonstrates echoic behavior. Given this analysis, the child has demonstrated manding, tacting, and echoing. The response to the question is an echo rather than an intraverbal response. Therefore, the verbal operant the child most likely has not demonstrated is: a) Intraverbals
3:04:25 The question is asking what you "might" do, EXCEPT. This wording implies to me that there is one *clearly wrong* answer, rather than one answer that's not as good as the others - in this case, the worst of the four because it's an indirect assessment rather than a direct, even if it *is* something you might do. So I went looking for the wrong answer and ended up with C because of the implications of possible punishment and/or not giving reinforcement (even though it's true that negative reinforcement is still "requesting" behavior)
2:16:58, the answer is C, which now that one of the students mentioned it being the simplest answer. But I think I was thinking more of a functional and more effective option for the client, which i thought would be B, because if he is having a hard time with space around him wouldnt we try to teach a DRI procedure and then eventually have this generalize in a natural setting? ( i am a big overthinking too which can be my down fall lol)
I thought that too then I also thought we can't choose c.) cuz that says to use the other less trafficked entrance but i didn't select that one cuz i thought well we can't add more than what's in the question and it didn't mention there was a better door especially all the other doors were blocked. Maybe it was implied that there was a better door, but I guess I just didn't want to add more to the story.
The second question is spontaneous recovery bc it went months and then came back? Resurgence is if the behavior stopped being reinforced then showed up?
That's what I was saying that's why I thought the answer may have been A.) Since they mentioned the dog & that's why the lil girl was sucking her thumb again. But i think since resurgence may be the closets best answer than that's the one we'd go with
For the question at 2:27:00 I thought it was A.) Since maintenance is something we test, if the client can still do the mastered skill OVER time. Which A.) Made the only sense to fit that definition and the answer D.) Seems more like generalization across settings. But if it said answering the classroom phone every couple of days or weeks that would be maintenance. Please explain this
For the question with the answer as A- Intraverbals It is intraverbals because there was simply not a “conversation” aspect to the response of the child. The child repeated “favorite” but did not answer the question.
For the question about jr pinching his classmates- I don't understand why "this only occurs during independent work time" is included in the description, if the answer is A. I think this sentence suggests that it is not an appropriate time to get his peers attention and that B would be a better answer, even though it still isn't a great answer bc a replacement bx isn't being taught.
I appreciate your explanation, and you're right that this might not be the best time to get peers attention. Rest assured that the client IS getting their attention, though. That's partly why I think that a replacement bx is warranted. The inclusion about independent time was also there to suggest that the child is seeking attention b/c of an establishing operation. Anyway, I like that answer "b" (DRO FI 14) would reduce the bx, but I don't like that it doesn't address the function. Thanks.
we can assume it could have been a mand in the question about the swing because that is usually the first verbal operant learned( in the form of baby babbling or even crying....crying can be manding, right?) based on the material I've been studying(I can't remember where I saw it but I saw it somewhere recently) and intraverbals are usually learned last is that right? .. it makes sense if you've had children and think about the order in which they developed language skills. Intraverbal seemed like the obvious answer and I'm surprised that you were challenged so much on this. You did a great job explaining your reason. Anyways, I appreciate your challenging questions. Thank you. I purchased the mini mocks a few weeks ago and they've been very helpful :)
I answered D because of the commenter around 1:58:00. It doesn't seem that she clearly explained it, but she argued that because "favorite" does not match "Is the swing your favorite?" *word-for-word,* it is *not* an echoic, but rather an intraverbal. The commenter at 1:56:50 or so argues that an intraverbal is defined by a coherent answer being given to the question being asked. I was never taught that the function is what makes something an intraverbal, just pure form (does it have point-to-point correspondence, yes or no?)
@@showmeTDs Thanks, I'm glad others are seeing this issue. It's true you can argue that for a student who only uses single words, that they're *trying* to echo at the level of their ability, but there's no empirical proof that they are, so it doesn't make sense to ask that someone assume it within the question.
Right. That's just one explanation for why the skill isn't being acquired as quickly, but it fits. Reinforcer satiation might happen when we don't vary reinforcers, limit free access to them or use reinforcers that easily satiate - like edibles.
Yea this question bothered me to because of how much I have had banged in my hand that "the question gives you all the info you need to answer the question, don't assume" and the only way you can get that as the right answer is ruling out the other 3 and the you sit there beating yourself up for assuming it's "reinforcer satiation" and wonder if it truly is the correct answer. However as a multiple test taker, these types of question do come up and they suck!
Hi Just trying to understand one part of the last question which you went back to about Prescott slumps to the floor to get attention. Would b not inadvertently reinforce the attention behaviour ( slumping to the floor )when you give him work when he slumps to the floor as this can be seen as negative attention which he is gaining ? If so wont A be better as planned ignoring is better suited for attention function behaviour?
Hey Angelique! Great question. The thing to keep in mind with planned ignoring is that it is a punishment procedure. In order to use punishment we must first attempt reinforcement or something of the likes!
I could definitely see how this could an impure tact. I would ask myself what is evoking the behavior? Here it seems that the SD is and not the stimuli. Therefore, we might rule out tact all together.
@@behavioranalystsupervisori8906 I could see an argument for the tact if it's meant to say "it's mine," however the question mark makes it really clear and led to me selecting mand.
Getting a little worried, iv watched other videos and have gotten a lot of them correct but this one I’m not doing so well. I’m typically able to eliminate two answers but will pick the wrong one often. These questions are tricky.
Be sure to use applied examples that you have created to match them with the concepts. Try to rule out each answer choice and you will be left with one that makes the most sense. In the end, if it is still difficult send us an email and we can jump on a call with you!
Happy to help! Asking for rides only leads to getting a ride. The reinforcement remains the same. Utilizing the support page can lead to homework help, extracurricular activities, social groups, or more. The key is the difference between a cusp and a pivotal behavior. Cusps access new and different reinforcers whereas pivotal behaviors might be important behaviors but they only allow for access to a singular reinforcer.
I also feel like an important part of the question is the age of the student. Setting age appropriate goals. Additionally, we should not assume the client cannot drive and needs to learn this skills, but accessing a school resource page would be useful for any one at their age.
We understand that everyone has a different learning style. We receive lots of feedback that Kevin's calm voice is what many hear and help them succeed during their exam!
I PASSED THE BCBA EXAM TODAY!!!! Your videos were extremely helpful in learning how to break down questions, and really figure out what was being asked! I am so excited!! THANK YOU for the content available on TH-cam to review and learn from! :)
ashlynvanderburg7672! That is so amazing! Congratulations! Send us an email and we will send you your first CEU course totally free! Info@behavioranalystsupervisor.com
You guys!!!! I passed yesterday and I have to say this video in addition to your other weekly videos (plus cooper quizzes and studying) really helped me pass 🙏 I literally heard Kevin’s voice in my head and talked my self through each question. As a second time tester and over thinker this method really helped me with my confidence in answering. I can’t thank you all enough for offering for free. I spend a lot of money on another , well known test prep company and it just want the same as how you all dissect the questions! Thank you a thousand times over❤❤
Ah! That is so extremely exciting! Excellent work! Send us an email and we will send you your first CEs on us!
2:30:59 I answered C because "asking peers for rides to work" could be a behavioral cusp that will allow the client the ability to get and maintain a job. At 17 years old, that is really significant, opens up the opportunity to earn money and access pretty much any other reinforcer, and is a "milestone" which the question took words to emphasize was important. so it's enough for me to pick that answer even if it is correct in that it doesn't generalize too much beyond that.
Thanks for the commend Andrew! I think the key here is as many milestones as possible. The support page will open the door to many, many different things including clubs, tutoring, rides even. Whereas asking peers for rides to work is more limited. I hope this helps.
@@showmeTDs Remember that a behavior cusp opens the door to many new reinforcers. Asking peers for a ride to work opens the door to one reinforcer, and using the support page opens the door to many reinforcers allowing her to meet more milestones. We always want to answer the question being asked. Here the scenario wants us to choose the answer that allows for more milestones to be met. To be clear, asking for a ride to work is one milestone, the support page can allow access to many milestones. We do appreciate your opinion though.
@@behavioranalystsupervisori8906 if the question is specifically asking for milestones, then I’m more on board with the answer of web support if it is more closely answering what was asked. I’d still wonder whether being able to make money as a result of being able to access work, could lead to “milestones” in the future. I think I’m not really clear on what the question means by “Milestones” which leaves a lot of room for subjective interpretation like this, where we both have valid reasons for our answers.
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1:49:00 Asks, "MOST LIKELY LEARNED the following except..." We reflect on the scenario which gives the possibility that the child is manding for "swing." With verbal operants, in order to have the skill of manding, a learner must know how to tact the item. In the question, we can assume that tacting was already in the learners repertoire and was therefor manding for swing. Following that, the echoic of "favorite." which leaves a) intraverbal as the exception.
Compared to 3:15:00 where it asks, "the child has DEMONSTRATED the following except" .. this question is not asking what the child might have already learned but rather what the child has demonstrated in the scenario. which leaves b) tact
Hope this helps clarify the first question! :)
Resurgence is when the replacement behavior is no longer reinforced and the problem behavior comes back.
This is a good way to look at it. The Cooper book specifically states that "Resurgence refers to the reoccurrence of a previously reinforced behavior when reinforcement for an alternative behavior is terminated or decreased and to the three-phase procedure that produces the effect: (1) A target behavior is reinforced, (2) the target behavior is placed on extinction and reinforcement is provided for an alternative behavior, and (3) both responses are placed on extinction." Cooper et al, p. 799, 2020).
Okay but i learned the difference between resurgence & spontaneous recovery and although they're similar i learned that the difference is resurgence means a bx previously placed on EXT reoccurring because it no longer has received SR for the problem bx.
And that spontaneous recovery is when a previous bx has been on EXT but reoccurs out of no where without explicit resason.
Thats why i thought question 2 was A.) Becuase there didnt seem to be any signs that the bx of thumb sucking was no longer receiving any SR.
All the mock questions I've answered were correct when it came to questions about the differences with resurgence and spontaneous recovery.
@behavioranalystsupervisori8906
Intraverbals involve responding to the speech of another person that is not directly echoed but contextually relevant. An appropriate intraverbal response to “Is the swing your favorite?” would be “yes” or “no.” The child’s response “favorite” is not an intraverbal response but an echo of the last word in the question.
Manding involves making requests or demands. The initial word “swing” could be interpreted as a request to go on the swing, which shows manding behavior.
Tacting involves labeling or identifying objects or events in the environment. The child’s initial utterance of “swing” labels the object of interest, indicating tacting behavior.
Echoing involves repeating exactly what another person says. In this scenario, the child repeats the word “favorite” after hearing it in the question. This demonstrates echoic behavior.
Given this analysis, the child has demonstrated manding, tacting, and echoing. The response to the question is an echo rather than an intraverbal response. Therefore, the verbal operant the child most likely has not demonstrated is:
a) Intraverbals
3:04:25 The question is asking what you "might" do, EXCEPT. This wording implies to me that there is one *clearly wrong* answer, rather than one answer that's not as good as the others - in this case, the worst of the four because it's an indirect assessment rather than a direct, even if it *is* something you might do. So I went looking for the wrong answer and ended up with C because of the implications of possible punishment and/or not giving reinforcement (even though it's true that negative reinforcement is still "requesting" behavior)
2:16:58, the answer is C, which now that one of the students mentioned it being the simplest answer. But I think I was thinking more of a functional and more effective option for the client, which i thought would be B, because if he is having a hard time with space around him wouldnt we try to teach a DRI procedure and then eventually have this generalize in a natural setting? ( i am a big overthinking too which can be my down fall lol)
I thought that too then I also thought we can't choose c.) cuz that says to use the other less trafficked entrance but i didn't select that one cuz i thought well we can't add more than what's in the question and it didn't mention there was a better door especially all the other doors were blocked. Maybe it was implied that there was a better door, but I guess I just didn't want to add more to the story.
The second question is spontaneous recovery bc it went months and then came back? Resurgence is if the behavior stopped being reinforced then showed up?
That's what I was saying that's why I thought the answer may have been A.) Since they mentioned the dog & that's why the lil girl was sucking her thumb again.
But i think since resurgence may be the closets best answer than that's the one we'd go with
For the question at 2:27:00 I thought it was A.) Since maintenance is something we test, if the client can still do the mastered skill OVER time. Which A.) Made the only sense to fit that definition and the answer D.) Seems more like generalization across settings.
But if it said answering the classroom phone every couple of days or weeks that would be maintenance.
Please explain this
For the question with the answer as A- Intraverbals
It is intraverbals because there was simply not a “conversation” aspect to the response of the child. The child repeated “favorite” but did not answer the question.
Doesn’t DRA need to be functionally equivalent behavior? Thats why I picked DRO because she is reinforcing OTHER behaviors
For the question about jr pinching his classmates- I don't understand why "this only occurs during independent work time" is included in the description, if the answer is A. I think this sentence suggests that it is not an appropriate time to get his peers attention and that B would be a better answer, even though it still isn't a great answer bc a replacement bx isn't being taught.
I appreciate your explanation, and you're right that this might not be the best time to get peers attention. Rest assured that the client IS getting their attention, though. That's partly why I think that a replacement bx is warranted. The inclusion about independent time was also there to suggest that the child is seeking attention b/c of an establishing operation. Anyway, I like that answer "b" (DRO FI 14) would reduce the bx, but I don't like that it doesn't address the function. Thanks.
@@behavioranalystsupervisori8906 that makes sense, thanks for your reply :) great video by the way. super helpful.
we can assume it could have been a mand in the question about the swing because that is usually the first verbal operant learned( in the form of baby babbling or even crying....crying can be manding, right?) based on the material I've been studying(I can't remember where I saw it but I saw it somewhere recently) and intraverbals are usually learned last is that right? .. it makes sense if you've had children and think about the order in which they developed language skills. Intraverbal seemed like the obvious answer and I'm surprised that you were challenged so much on this. You did a great job explaining your reason. Anyways, I appreciate your challenging questions. Thank you. I purchased the mini mocks a few weeks ago and they've been very helpful :)
You are spot on! We always teach manding first in order for learners to communicate their wants and needs.
I answered D because of the commenter around 1:58:00. It doesn't seem that she clearly explained it, but she argued that because "favorite" does not match "Is the swing your favorite?" *word-for-word,* it is *not* an echoic, but rather an intraverbal. The commenter at 1:56:50 or so argues that an intraverbal is defined by a coherent answer being given to the question being asked. I was never taught that the function is what makes something an intraverbal, just pure form (does it have point-to-point correspondence, yes or no?)
@@showmeTDs Thanks, I'm glad others are seeing this issue. It's true you can argue that for a student who only uses single words, that they're *trying* to echo at the level of their ability, but there's no empirical proof that they are, so it doesn't make sense to ask that someone assume it within the question.
Qn 1 , I was confused because of “reinforcer satiation”
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@@behavioranalystsupervisori8906 it was clear when I listened again, thank you so much for the support
Right. That's just one explanation for why the skill isn't being acquired as quickly, but it fits. Reinforcer satiation might happen when we don't vary reinforcers, limit free access to them or use reinforcers that easily satiate - like edibles.
Yea this question bothered me to because of how much I have had banged in my hand that "the question gives you all the info you need to answer the question, don't assume" and the only way you can get that as the right answer is ruling out the other 3 and the you sit there beating yourself up for assuming it's "reinforcer satiation" and wonder if it truly is the correct answer. However as a multiple test taker, these types of question do come up and they suck!
Hi Just trying to understand one part of the last question which you went back to about Prescott slumps to the floor to get attention.
Would b not inadvertently reinforce the attention behaviour ( slumping to the floor )when you give him work when he slumps to the floor as this can be seen as negative attention which he is gaining ? If so wont A be better as planned ignoring is better suited for attention function behaviour?
Hey Angelique! Great question. The thing to keep in mind with planned ignoring is that it is a punishment procedure. In order to use punishment we must first attempt reinforcement or something of the likes!
Hi, thanks for your amazing work! 3:15:25 - point to the ID badge and say mine? couldn't be impure tact?
I could definitely see how this could an impure tact. I would ask myself what is evoking the behavior? Here it seems that the SD is and not the stimuli. Therefore, we might rule out tact all together.
@@behavioranalystsupervisori8906 I could see an argument for the tact if it's meant to say "it's mine," however the question mark makes it really clear and led to me selecting mand.
makes sense
Getting a little worried, iv watched other videos and have gotten a lot of them correct but this one I’m not doing so well. I’m typically able to eliminate two answers but will pick the wrong one often. These questions are tricky.
Be sure to use applied examples that you have created to match them with the concepts. Try to rule out each answer choice and you will be left with one that makes the most sense. In the end, if it is still difficult send us an email and we can jump on a call with you!
Agreed lol
Can someone share cooper Quizes?
I am curious, how many questions does this video has?
It should have around 45!
I am very confused about the part where accessing a school's homework support page is a greater milestone than asking for peers for rides to work.
Happy to help! Asking for rides only leads to getting a ride. The reinforcement remains the same. Utilizing the support page can lead to homework help, extracurricular activities, social groups, or more. The key is the difference between a cusp and a pivotal behavior. Cusps access new and different reinforcers whereas pivotal behaviors might be important behaviors but they only allow for access to a singular reinforcer.
I also feel like an important part of the question is the age of the student. Setting age appropriate goals. Additionally, we should not assume the client cannot drive and needs to learn this skills, but accessing a school resource page would be useful for any one at their age.
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