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The QASP-S exam has 125 questions and runs 3 hours.
These 10 free QASP-S questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Qualified Autism Services Practitioner - Supervisor (QASP-S) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
Following a functional assessment, a QASP-S implements a punishment procedure for severe self-injury. Over the next two weeks, the frequency and intensity of the self-injury increase. According to the QABA Ethical Code of Conduct, what must the QASP-S do?
Correct answer: C - Immediately remove the punishment procedure and reassess
A supervisee writes the following goal in a behavior plan: 'The learner will not leave his seat during circle time.' A QASP-S reviewing the plan should identify which problem?
Correct answer: B - The goal fails the dead man's test, because a dead man could satisfy it perfectly
A learner's aggression is maintained by attention. A QASP-S implements a plan in which a staff member delivers 30 seconds of praise and conversation every 5 minutes on a timer, whether or not aggression has occurred. A supervisee objects: 'We can't reinforce him while he's aggressive - that will make it worse.' What is the BEST response?
Correct answer: C - The procedure is non-contingent reinforcement, which weakens the aggression-attention contingency
A learner's parent reports that he slept approximately three hours the previous night. The following day, tasks he normally completes easily evoke high rates of escape-maintained tantrums. The poor sleep is BEST classified as:
Correct answer: B - A setting event that alters the effectiveness of escape as a reinforcer
A QASP-S is teaching a learner to use a sharp kitchen knife to slice vegetables as part of a vocational program. Errors carry a genuine risk of injury. Which prompting approach is MOST appropriate at the outset of instruction?
Correct answer: A - Most-to-least prompting, beginning with full hand-over-hand guidance to prevent errors
A student raises his hand approximately 20 times per hour. Hand-raising is an appropriate classroom behavior, but at this rate it disrupts instruction and prevents peers from participating. The team wants him to continue raising his hand, but far less often. Which procedure is MOST appropriate?
Correct answer: A - DRL, reinforcing hand-raising when it occurs at or below a set rate
A behavior plan successfully reduces a learner's disruptive behavior in the resource room, where the plan is implemented with high fidelity. Over the same period, disruptive behavior in the general education classroom - where no plan is in place - increases noticeably. This pattern BEST illustrates:
Correct answer: C - Behavior contrast
A QASP-S must measure a learner's hand-flapping, which occurs in long, sustained bouts. The team needs an estimate that will not under-report the behavior, because the data will be used to justify continued funding. Which recording method carries the HIGHEST risk of producing an artificially LOW estimate?
Correct answer: C - Whole interval recording
A QASP-S reviews ABC data for a 7-year-old's screaming. Screaming occurred 40 times: attention followed 24 of those instances (60%), and demands were removed after 20 of them (50%). The QASP-S then examines what happened when screaming did NOT occur. Attention was delivered following 62% of those non-screaming intervals, whereas demands were removed following only 4%. Which conclusion is BEST supported?
Correct answer: B - Escape is the maintaining consequence, because demand removal is far more probable when screaming occurs than when it does not
A QASP-S needs to identify reinforcers for a learner whose severe problem behavior is reliably triggered when preferred items are taken away. Which preference assessment format is MOST appropriate?
Correct answer: A - Free-operant observation
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