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Applied Behavioural Analysis Exam
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History of ABA - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Evolved and uses concepts of behaviorism
developed by John B. Watson and B.F Skinner.
- The emergence of ABA as a distinct scientific field occurred in the late 1950s and
1960s. In 1968, Donald Baer, Montrose Wolf, and Todd Risley introduced seven
dimensions of ABA in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
Six key components of ABA - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- guided by methods of scientific
inquiry
- all behaviour change procedures are described and implemented systematically and
technologically
- focus is socially significant behaviour
- make meaningful improvement in behaviour
- analyse factors responsible for improvement
- concepts are derived from the basic principles of behaviour.
ABC's of ABA - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Antecdent
- Behavioral
- Consequence
Antecedent - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Environmental events that precede behaviour.
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Behavioural - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Observable behaviour that occurs.
Consequence - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- events that follow behavior
What is Applied Behavioural Analysis? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Applied behavior analysis
is the process of systematically applying interventions based upon the principles of
learning theory to improve SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT BEHAVIOURS to a meaningful
degree, and to demonstrate EXPERIMENTALLY that the interventions employed are
responsible for the improvement in behavior (Baer, Wolf & Risley, 1968; Sulzer-Azaroff
& Mayer, 1991).
What are Socially Significant Behaviours? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Behaviors that have
immediate and long term benefits for the person engaging in them.
The Four Domains of Behaviour Analytic Science - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Behaviorism
- Experimental Analysis of Behaviour
- Applied Behavioural analysis
- Professional Practice
What is EAB? - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Both human and nonhuman participants in labs
- Goal of discovering and clarifying fundamental principles of behaviour.
Operant Conditioning - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- Reinforcing consequences immediately
following the response increases it's future likelihood: aversive consequences
immediately following the response decrease it's future likelihood
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