Basic Principles of ABA Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What is ABA? -
correct answer ✅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) -
correct answer ✅1. Applied
2. Behavioral
3. Analytic
4. Conceptually Systematic
5. Technological
6. Effective
7. Generavity
Goals of ABA (2) -
correct answer ✅To increase new skills (functioning)
To decrease problem behaviors (suffering)
,Basic Principles of ABA Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Properties of Science (6) -
correct answer ✅1. Objective
2. Determinism
3. Empiricism
4. Parsimony
5. Scientific Manipulation
6. Philsophic Doubt
Explanatory Fiction -
correct answer ✅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 -
correct answer ✅1953
Related work with organisms to human behavior
"Operant Conditioning"
Pavlov -
correct answer ✅Respondent/Classical Conditioning
, Basic Principles of ABA Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What is Behavior? -
correct answer ✅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 -
correct answer ✅Action of an organism
Topography -
correct answer ✅Physical form of behavior
(Poking, pointing, pushing button)
Response Class -
correct answer ✅Group of responses with the same function
Repertoire -
correct answer ✅All of the behaviors a person can do.
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What is ABA? -
correct answer ✅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) -
correct answer ✅1. Applied
2. Behavioral
3. Analytic
4. Conceptually Systematic
5. Technological
6. Effective
7. Generavity
Goals of ABA (2) -
correct answer ✅To increase new skills (functioning)
To decrease problem behaviors (suffering)
,Basic Principles of ABA Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Properties of Science (6) -
correct answer ✅1. Objective
2. Determinism
3. Empiricism
4. Parsimony
5. Scientific Manipulation
6. Philsophic Doubt
Explanatory Fiction -
correct answer ✅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 -
correct answer ✅1953
Related work with organisms to human behavior
"Operant Conditioning"
Pavlov -
correct answer ✅Respondent/Classical Conditioning
, Basic Principles of ABA Exam
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
What is Behavior? -
correct answer ✅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 -
correct answer ✅Action of an organism
Topography -
correct answer ✅Physical form of behavior
(Poking, pointing, pushing button)
Response Class -
correct answer ✅Group of responses with the same function
Repertoire -
correct answer ✅All of the behaviors a person can do.
