| "BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)" | |
| "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." | |
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| "Behavior Analyst Certification Board. (2022). BCBA test content outline (6th ed.)." | |
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| " 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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