Practise Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification examination with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) · BCBA Test Content Outline, 6th edition, updated September 2024 and effective January 1, 2025; current outline listed by the BACB as of October 18, 2026. The assigned BCBA-D label maps to the BCBA certification examination: BCBA-D is a doctoral designation for qualifying BCBAs, not a separate certification or examination. The assigned slug is preserved.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- Board Certified Behavior Analyst
- BCBA Handbook
- BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)
- Test Content Outlines for BACB Certifications
- Guidance for Meeting the BCBA Requirements During the 2027 Transition
- Ethics Codes
- Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts
- Science and Human Behavior
- About Behaviorism: What Is Inside the Skin?
- Reinforcement: Positive Versus Negative
- Measuring Behavior
- Foundational Strategies
- Establishing Operations
- Toward a Functional Analysis of Self-Injury
- A Comparison of Two Approaches for Identifying Reinforcers for Persons with Severe and Profound Disabilities
- Reducing Behavior Problems Through Functional Communication Training
- The Role of Attention in the Treatment of Attention-Maintained Self-Injurious Behavior
- A Preliminary Investigation on Improving Functional Communication Training by Mitigating Resurgence of Destructive Behavior
- Evidence-Based Staff Training: A Guide for Practitioners
- An Evaluation of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist–Human Services Across Domains
- An Implicit Technology of Generalization
- Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Establishing Operations
- Toward a Functional Analysis of Self-Injury
- A Comparison of Two Approaches for Identifying Reinforcers for Persons with Severe and Profound Disabilities
- The Role of Attention in the Treatment of Attention-Maintained Self-Injurious Behavior: Noncontingent Reinforcement and Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- A Preliminary Investigation on Improving Functional Communication Training by Mitigating Resurgence of Destructive Behavior
- Evidence-Based Staff Training: A Guide for Practitioners
- An Evaluation of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist–Human Services Across Domains
- An Implicit Technology of Generalization
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification examination
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Repeated observations show that a learner requests help more often during difficult tasks. No task conditions have been experimentally changed. Which scientific goal is most directly supported by this relation?
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification examination
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A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations
A.3 — Radical behaviorism
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