BCBA Task List 5th Edition (A1-A5)

BCBA Task List 5th Edition (A1-A5) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior. Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science. - 3 Levels of Scientific Understanding: Description, Prediction, and Control Description - Facts that are derived from systematically observed events. Prediction - When repeated observations show that there is a consistent relationship between the occurrence of 2 events. Control - An experimental demonstration that manipulating 1 event (IV) results in a change in another event (DV) and this change can only be attributable to the independent variable. Explain the Philosophical Assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis. - (DEPPS-PER) Determinism Empiricism Pragmatism Parsimony Selectionism Philosophical Doubt Experimentation Replication Determinism - The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy-nilly, accidental fashion. Empiricism - The act of objective observation and measurement. Parsimony - The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations. Pragmatism - A practical approach to problems in which truth is found in the process of verification. Selectionism - A theory that all forms of life naturally and continually evolve as a result of the interaction between function and the survival value of that function. Operant selection by consequences is the conceptual and empirical foundation of behavior analysis. Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism. - Radical behaviorism is a types of behaviorism that seeks to understand all forms of behavior, including private events such as thoughts and feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person (ontogeny) and the species (phylogeny) Ontogeny - The history of development of an individual organism during its lifetime. Phylogeny - The history of the natural evolution of a species.