BASIC PRINCIPLES OF
ABA QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026
What is ABA? - ANS-The science in which procedures derived from the principles of
behavior are systematically applied to improve socially significant behavior to a
meaningful degree and to demonstrate experimentally that the procedures employed
were responsible for the improvement in behavior.
Dimensions of ABA (7) - ANS-1. Applied
2. Behavioral
3. Analytic
4. Conceptually Systematic
5. Technological
6. Effective
7. Generavity
Goals of ABA (2) - ANS-To increase new skills (functioning)
To decrease problem behaviors (suffering)
Properties of Science (6) - ANS-1. Objective
2. Determinism
3. Empiricism
4. Parsimony
5. Scientific Manipulation
, 6. Philsophic Doubt
Explanatory Fiction - ANS-Circular way of viewing cause and effect.
He's autistic because of his behaviors but his behaviors lead him to be autistic.
B.F. Skinner - ANS-1953
Related work with organisms to human behavior
"Operant Conditioning"
Pavlov - ANS-Respondent/Classical Conditioning
What is Behavior? - ANS-An organism's interaction with it's environment that is
characterized by detectable displacement of space through time of some part of the
organism that results in a measurable change.
Response - ANS-Action of an organism
Topography - ANS-Physical form of behavior
(Poking, pointing, pushing button)
Response Class - ANS-Group of responses with the same function
Repertoire - ANS-All of the behaviors a person can do.
Antecedent - ANS-Environmental conditions that exist or occur prior to the target
behavior
Consequence - ANS-Stimulus change that follows a target behavior
ABA QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2025-2026
What is ABA? - ANS-The science in which procedures derived from the principles of
behavior are systematically applied to improve socially significant behavior to a
meaningful degree and to demonstrate experimentally that the procedures employed
were responsible for the improvement in behavior.
Dimensions of ABA (7) - ANS-1. Applied
2. Behavioral
3. Analytic
4. Conceptually Systematic
5. Technological
6. Effective
7. Generavity
Goals of ABA (2) - ANS-To increase new skills (functioning)
To decrease problem behaviors (suffering)
Properties of Science (6) - ANS-1. Objective
2. Determinism
3. Empiricism
4. Parsimony
5. Scientific Manipulation
, 6. Philsophic Doubt
Explanatory Fiction - ANS-Circular way of viewing cause and effect.
He's autistic because of his behaviors but his behaviors lead him to be autistic.
B.F. Skinner - ANS-1953
Related work with organisms to human behavior
"Operant Conditioning"
Pavlov - ANS-Respondent/Classical Conditioning
What is Behavior? - ANS-An organism's interaction with it's environment that is
characterized by detectable displacement of space through time of some part of the
organism that results in a measurable change.
Response - ANS-Action of an organism
Topography - ANS-Physical form of behavior
(Poking, pointing, pushing button)
Response Class - ANS-Group of responses with the same function
Repertoire - ANS-All of the behaviors a person can do.
Antecedent - ANS-Environmental conditions that exist or occur prior to the target
behavior
Consequence - ANS-Stimulus change that follows a target behavior
