UWF EDF 6225 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968) recommended the following seven defining
dimensions for research or behavior change programs - ✔✔Applied
Behavioral
Analytic
Technological
Conceptual
Effective
Generality
✔✔applied - ✔✔◦Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance
to the participant(s)
✔✔examples of applied - ✔✔◦Examples include behaviors such as:
Social
Language
Academic
Daily living
Self-care
Vocational
Recreation and/or leisure
✔✔behavioral - ✔✔◦Precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of
improvement & documents that it was the participant's behavior that changed
The behavior in need of improvement and it is a study of behavior
The behavior must be measurable
Important to note whose behavior has changed
✔✔analytic - ✔✔◦Demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and non-
occurrence of the behavior (a functional relation is demonstrated)
◦Functional & replicable relationships
, ✔✔technological - ✔✔◦Written description of all procedures in the study is sufficiently
complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it
◦All operative procedures are identified and described in detail & clarity
Replicable technology
✔✔conceptually systematic - ✔✔◦Behavior change interventions are derived from basic
principles of behavior
◦Better enable research consumer to derive other similar procedures from the same
principle(s)
◦Assist in integrating discipline into a system instead of a "collection of tricks"
✔✔effective - ✔✔◦Improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the
participant(s)
◦Improvements in behavior must reach clinical or social significance
◦Extent to which changes in the target behavior(s) result in noticeable changes
✔✔generality - ✔✔◦Produces behavior changes that last over time...
◦Appear in other environments (other than the one in which intervention was
implemented)...
◦Or spread to other behaviors (those not directly treated by the intervention)
✔✔ABA offers society an approach toward solving problems that is: - ✔✔Accountable
Public
Doable
Empowering
Optimistic
✔✔accountable - ✔✔◦Created by the focus on
Accessible environmental variables that reliably influence behavior
Reliance on direct & frequent measurement to detect changes in behavior
Detect successes and failures
Allow changes to be made
✔✔public - ✔✔◦Visible, explicit, & straightforward
◦Of value across a very broad spectrum of fields
Doable
◦Not prohibitively complicated or arduous
◦Variety of individuals are able to implement principles and interventions
◦Does involve more than just "learning to do some procedures"
✔✔empowering - ✔✔◦Provides practitioners with real tools that work
◦Raises confidence
◦Increases confidence for future challenges
Optimistic
SET A+
✔✔Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968) recommended the following seven defining
dimensions for research or behavior change programs - ✔✔Applied
Behavioral
Analytic
Technological
Conceptual
Effective
Generality
✔✔applied - ✔✔◦Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance
to the participant(s)
✔✔examples of applied - ✔✔◦Examples include behaviors such as:
Social
Language
Academic
Daily living
Self-care
Vocational
Recreation and/or leisure
✔✔behavioral - ✔✔◦Precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of
improvement & documents that it was the participant's behavior that changed
The behavior in need of improvement and it is a study of behavior
The behavior must be measurable
Important to note whose behavior has changed
✔✔analytic - ✔✔◦Demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and non-
occurrence of the behavior (a functional relation is demonstrated)
◦Functional & replicable relationships
, ✔✔technological - ✔✔◦Written description of all procedures in the study is sufficiently
complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it
◦All operative procedures are identified and described in detail & clarity
Replicable technology
✔✔conceptually systematic - ✔✔◦Behavior change interventions are derived from basic
principles of behavior
◦Better enable research consumer to derive other similar procedures from the same
principle(s)
◦Assist in integrating discipline into a system instead of a "collection of tricks"
✔✔effective - ✔✔◦Improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the
participant(s)
◦Improvements in behavior must reach clinical or social significance
◦Extent to which changes in the target behavior(s) result in noticeable changes
✔✔generality - ✔✔◦Produces behavior changes that last over time...
◦Appear in other environments (other than the one in which intervention was
implemented)...
◦Or spread to other behaviors (those not directly treated by the intervention)
✔✔ABA offers society an approach toward solving problems that is: - ✔✔Accountable
Public
Doable
Empowering
Optimistic
✔✔accountable - ✔✔◦Created by the focus on
Accessible environmental variables that reliably influence behavior
Reliance on direct & frequent measurement to detect changes in behavior
Detect successes and failures
Allow changes to be made
✔✔public - ✔✔◦Visible, explicit, & straightforward
◦Of value across a very broad spectrum of fields
Doable
◦Not prohibitively complicated or arduous
◦Variety of individuals are able to implement principles and interventions
◦Does involve more than just "learning to do some procedures"
✔✔empowering - ✔✔◦Provides practitioners with real tools that work
◦Raises confidence
◦Increases confidence for future challenges
Optimistic
