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"The BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.; TCO) describes the content that will appear on the BCBA® certification examination beginning in"
"2025. The TCO represents the knowledge and skills identified as being important for entry-level BCBA practitioners by the most recent"
"job task analysis (see the February 2022 BACB Newsletter). The BCBA examination includes 175 scored questions and 10 unscored pilot"
"questions. The TCO includes 104 tasks organized in 9 domains as follows:"
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"Domain # of Questions (% of Exam)"
"A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations 8 (5%)"
"B. Concepts and Principles 24 (14%)"
"C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation 21 (12%)"
"D. Experimental Design 13 (7%)"
"E. Ethical and Professional Issues 22 (13%)"
"F. Behavior Assessment 23 (13%)"
"G. Behavior-Change Procedures 25 (14%)"
"H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions 20 (11%)"
"I. Personnel Supervision and Management 19 (11%)"
"Total Questions 175"
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"Domain # of Questions"
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"A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations 8"
"A.1. Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e., A.3. Explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism."
"description, prediction, control). A.4. Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of"
"A.2. Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice"
"science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, guided by the science of behavior analysis."
"empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism). A.5. Identify and describe dimensions of applied behavior analysis."
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"B. Concepts and Principles 24"
"B.1. Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and B.12. Identify examples of stimulus control."
"response class. B.13. Identify examples of stimulus discrimination."
"B.2. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class. B.14. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and"
"B.3. Identify and distinguish between respondent and response generalization."
"operant conditioning. B.15. Identify examples of response maintenance."
"B.4. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative B.16. Identify examples of motivating operations."
"reinforcement contingencies."
"B.17. Distinguish between motivating operations and stimulus control."
"B.5. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative"
"B.18. Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and"
"punishment contingencies."
"contingency-shaped behavior."
"B.6. Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially"
"B.19. Identify and distinguish among verbal operants."
"mediated contingencies."
"B.20. Identify the role of multiple control in verbal behavior."
"B.7. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned,"
"and generalized reinforcers. B.21. Identify examples of processes that promote emergent"
"relations and generative performance."
"B.8. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned,"
"and generalized punishers. B.22. Identify ways behavioral momentum can be used to"
"understand response persistence."
"B.9. Identify and distinguish among simple schedules"
"of reinforcement. B.23. Identify ways the matching law can be used to interpret"
"response allocation."
"B.10. Identify and distinguish among concurrent, multiple, mixed,"
"and chained schedules of reinforcement. B.24. Identify and distinguish between imitation and"
"observational learning."
"B.11. Identify and distinguish between operant and respondent"
"extinction as operations and processes."
"This document should be referenced as:"
"Behavior Analyst Certification Board. (2022). BCBA test content outline (6th ed.)."
"Updated 09/2024, Copyright © 2022, BACB® | All rights reserved. https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/bcba-outline-6thEd/"
" C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation 21"
"C.1. Create operational definitions of behavior. C.8. Evaluate the validity and reliability of"
"C.2. Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures measurement procedures."
"of behavior. C.9. Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative"
"C.3. Measure occurrence. data that accounts for the critical dimension of the behavior"
"and environmental constraints."
"C.4. Measure temporal dimensions of behavior (e.g., duration,"
"latency, interresponse time). C.10. Graph data to communicate relevant quantitative relations"
"(e.g., equal-interval graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records)."
"C.5. Distinguish between continuous and discontinuous"
"measurement procedures. C.11. Interpret graphed data."
"C.6. Design and apply discontinuous measurement procedures C.12. Select a measurement procedure to obtain"
"(e.g., interval recording, time sampling). representative procedural integrity data that accounts"
"for relevant dimensions (e.g., accuracy, dosage) and"
"C.7. Measure efficiency (e.g., trials to criterion, cost-benefit"
"environmental constraints."
"analysis, training duration)."
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"D. Experimental Design 13"
"D.1. Distinguish between dependent and independent variables. D.6. Critique and interpret data from single-case"
"D.2. Distinguish between internal and external validity. experimental designs."
"D.3. Identify threats to internal validity (e.g., history, maturation). D.7. Distinguish among reversal, multiple-baseline, multielement,"
"and changing-criterion designs."
"D.4. Identify the defining features of single-case experimental"
"designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, D.8. Identify rationales for conducting comparative, component,"
"repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication). and parametric analyses."
"D.5. Identify the relative strengths of single-case experimental D.9. Apply single-case experimental designs."
"designs and group designs."
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"E. Ethical and Professional Issues 22"
"E.1. Identify and apply core principles underlying the ethics codes E.7. Identify types of and risks associated with multiple"
"for BACB certificants (e.g., benefit others; treat others with relationships, and how to mitigate those risks when they"
"compassion, dignity, and respect; behave with integrity). are unavoidable."
"E.2. Identify the risks to oneself, others, and the profession as a E.8. Identify and apply interpersonal and other skills"
"result of engaging in unethical behavior. (e.g., accepting feedback, listening actively, seeking"
"E.3. Develop and maintain competence by engaging in input, collaborating) to establish and maintain"
"professional development activities (e.g., read literature, seek professional relationships."
"consultation, establish mentors). E.9. Engage in cultural humility in service delivery and"
"E.4. Identify and comply with requirements for collecting, using, professional relationships."
"protecting, and disclosing confidential information. E.10. Apply culturally responsive and inclusive service and"
"E.5. Identify and comply with requirements for making public supervision activities."
"statements about professional activities (e.g., social media E.11. Identify personal biases and how they might interfere with"
"activity; misrepresentation of professional credentials, professional activity."
"behavior analysis, and service outcomes). E.12. Identify and apply the legal, regulatory, and practice"
"E.6. Identify the conditions under which services or supervision requirements (e.g., licensure, jurisprudence, funding,"
"should be discontinued and apply steps that should certification) relevant to the delivery of behavior-"
"be taken when transitioning clients and supervisees to analytic services."
"another professional."
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"F. Behavior Assessment 23"
"F.1. Identify relevant sources of information in records (e.g., F.5. Design and evaluate descriptive assessments."
"educational, medical, historical) at the outset of the case. F.6. Design and evaluate functional analyses."
"F.2. Identify and integrate relevant cultural variables in the F.7. Interpret assessment data to determine the need for"
"assessment process. behavior-analytic services and/or referral to others."
"F.3. Design and evaluate assessments of relevant skill strengths F.8. Interpret assessment data to identify and prioritize socially"
"and areas of need. significant, client-informed, and culturally responsive"
"F.4. Design and evaluate preference assessments. behavior-change procedures and goals."
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" G. Behavior-Change Procedures 25"
"G.1. Design and evaluate positive and negative G.10. Design and evaluate instructions and rules."
"reinforcement procedures. G.11. Shape dimensions of behavior."
"G.2. Design and evaluate differential reinforcement (e.g., DRA, G.12. Select and implement chaining procedures."
"DRO, DRL, DRH) procedures with and without extinction."
"G.13. Design and evaluate trial-based and free-"
"G.3. Design and evaluate time-based reinforcement (e.g., fixed- operant procedures."
"time) schedules."
"G.14. Design and evaluate group contingencies."
"G.4. Identify procedures to establish and use conditioned"
"G.15. Design and evaluate procedures to promote stimulus and"
"reinforcers (e.g., token economies)."
"response generalization."
"G.5. Incorporate motivating operations and discriminative stimuli"
"G.16. Design and evaluate procedures to maintain desired"
"into behavior-change procedures."
"behavior change following intervention (e.g., schedule"
"G.6. Design and evaluate procedures to produce simple and thinning, transferring to naturally occurring reinforcers)."
"conditional discriminations."
"G.17. Design and evaluate positive and negative punishment (e.g.,"
"G.7. Select and evaluate stimulus and response prompting time-out, response cost, overcorrection)."
"procedures (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most)."
"G.18. Evaluate emotional and elicited effects of behavior-"
"G.8. Design and implement procedures to fade stimulus and change procedures."
"response prompts (e.g., prompt delay, stimulus fading)."
"G.19. Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent"
"G.9. Design and evaluate modeling procedures. relations and generative performance."
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"H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions 20"
"H.1. Develop intervention goals in observable and H.4. Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible unwanted effects when"
"measurable terms. using reinforcement, extinction, and punishment procedures."
"H.2. Identify and recommend interventions based on assessment H.5. Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible relapse of the"
"results, scientific evidence, client preferences, and contextual target behavior."
"fit (e.g., expertise required for implementation, cultural H.6. Make data-based decisions about procedural integrity."
"variables, environmental resources)."
"H.7. Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of the"
"H.3. Select socially valid alternative behavior to be established or intervention and the need for modification."
"increased when a target behavior is to be decreased."
"H.8. Collaborate with others to support and enhance client services."
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"I. Personnel Supervision and Management 19"
"I.1. Identify the benefits of using behavior-analytic supervision I.4. Select supervision goals based on an assessment of the"
"(e.g., improved client outcomes, improved staff performance supervisee’s skills, cultural variables, and the environment."
"and retention). I.5. Identify and apply empirically validated and culturally"
"I.2. Identify and apply strategies for establishing effective responsive performance management procedures (e.g.,"
"supervisory relationships (e.g., executing supervisor- modeling, practice, feedback, reinforcement, task clarification,"
"supervisee contracts, establishing clear expectations, giving manipulation of response effort)."
"and accepting feedback). I.6. Apply a function-based approach (e.g., performance"
"I.3. Identify and implement methods that promote equity in diagnostics) to assess and improve supervisee behavior."
"supervision practices. I.7. Make data-based decisions about the efficacy of"
"supervisory practices."
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