EDF 6223 PRACTICE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ Assent in services, including clients in every aspect of planning behavior
change, and combating ableism in services. Answer: Areas to grow in ABA
▶ Applied behavior analysis is set apart from other disciplines by. Answer:
Focus, goals, and methods
▶ The goals of applied behavior analysis are. Answer: Description,
prediction, and control
▶ Descriptive knowledge consists of a collection of facts about the
observed clients that can be. Answer: quantified, classified, and examined
for possible relations
▶ A functional relation exists when. Answer: A change in a dependent
variable is reliably produced by manipulations of the independent variable
▶ The foremost rule in behavior analysis. Answer: Empiricism
▶ Our language suggests that.... Answer: Behavior is generally motivated
and controlled by events going on in the mind, emotions control
subsequent actions, and we can make choices that are free of outside
influences
▶ Knowledge about (or study of) the natural world based on facts learned
through experiments and observation. Systemized knowledge derived from
observation, study, etc. Achieves a greater understanding of area of study.
Rooted in scientific method: problem, observe/measure, formulate/test
hypothesis. Answer: Science
▶ The philosophy of the science of behavior. The behavior is controlled by
the environment.. Answer: Behaviorism
, ▶ Inner thoughts (and other things we cannot observe) mediate something
with our behavior. Used to be the accepted way of thinking (e.g., Freud,
Descartes). Answer: Mentalism
▶ Presumed but unobserved entities that can't be manipulated in an
experiment (cognitvie processes, drives, free will, etc.). Answer:
Hypothetical constructs
▶ Fictitious variable contributing nothing to an understanding of the
variables response for developing or maintaining bx (circular logic).
Answer: Explanatory fictions
▶ Published 20 books. Behavior of organisms (1938) and other popular
ones include Walden Two (1948) and verbal behavior (1957). Answer:
Skinner
▶ Identified distinction between respondent and operant behavior. Looked
towards environment for determinants of bx which appeas "voluntary"..
Answer: Skinner
▶ Restricts activities to descriptions of bx and makes no scientific
manipulations; no causality. Answer: Structural behaviorism
▶ Rejects all non-observable events, denied existence of "inner variables"
or they aren't considered science, and searches for functional relationships.
Answer: Methodological behaviorism
▶ University training programs were developed around ABA, teaching and
research made major contributions to the rapid growth of the field, and
these people made our current field possible.. Answer: Education's impact
in the 1960s
▶ Publication of "some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis" by
Baer, Wolf, and Risley. 7 defining dimensions for ABA research or bx
change programs.. Answer: 1968
▶ The behavior of an organism is that portion of an organism's interaction
with its environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in
space through time and some part of the organism and that results in a
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ Assent in services, including clients in every aspect of planning behavior
change, and combating ableism in services. Answer: Areas to grow in ABA
▶ Applied behavior analysis is set apart from other disciplines by. Answer:
Focus, goals, and methods
▶ The goals of applied behavior analysis are. Answer: Description,
prediction, and control
▶ Descriptive knowledge consists of a collection of facts about the
observed clients that can be. Answer: quantified, classified, and examined
for possible relations
▶ A functional relation exists when. Answer: A change in a dependent
variable is reliably produced by manipulations of the independent variable
▶ The foremost rule in behavior analysis. Answer: Empiricism
▶ Our language suggests that.... Answer: Behavior is generally motivated
and controlled by events going on in the mind, emotions control
subsequent actions, and we can make choices that are free of outside
influences
▶ Knowledge about (or study of) the natural world based on facts learned
through experiments and observation. Systemized knowledge derived from
observation, study, etc. Achieves a greater understanding of area of study.
Rooted in scientific method: problem, observe/measure, formulate/test
hypothesis. Answer: Science
▶ The philosophy of the science of behavior. The behavior is controlled by
the environment.. Answer: Behaviorism
, ▶ Inner thoughts (and other things we cannot observe) mediate something
with our behavior. Used to be the accepted way of thinking (e.g., Freud,
Descartes). Answer: Mentalism
▶ Presumed but unobserved entities that can't be manipulated in an
experiment (cognitvie processes, drives, free will, etc.). Answer:
Hypothetical constructs
▶ Fictitious variable contributing nothing to an understanding of the
variables response for developing or maintaining bx (circular logic).
Answer: Explanatory fictions
▶ Published 20 books. Behavior of organisms (1938) and other popular
ones include Walden Two (1948) and verbal behavior (1957). Answer:
Skinner
▶ Identified distinction between respondent and operant behavior. Looked
towards environment for determinants of bx which appeas "voluntary"..
Answer: Skinner
▶ Restricts activities to descriptions of bx and makes no scientific
manipulations; no causality. Answer: Structural behaviorism
▶ Rejects all non-observable events, denied existence of "inner variables"
or they aren't considered science, and searches for functional relationships.
Answer: Methodological behaviorism
▶ University training programs were developed around ABA, teaching and
research made major contributions to the rapid growth of the field, and
these people made our current field possible.. Answer: Education's impact
in the 1960s
▶ Publication of "some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis" by
Baer, Wolf, and Risley. 7 defining dimensions for ABA research or bx
change programs.. Answer: 1968
▶ The behavior of an organism is that portion of an organism's interaction
with its environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in
space through time and some part of the organism and that results in a
