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BCBA exam-PASS the BIG ABA EXAM
Practice Questions and Answers
3 levels of scientific understanding - Correct Answer✔️✔️-DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Systematic observations that can be quantified &
classified
Prediction - Correct Answer✔️✔️-AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the
other
Control - Correct Answer✔️✔️-AKA: causation
Functional relation.
The highest level of scientific understanding.
Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV) results in another event
(DV).
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6 attitudes of science
Philosophical assumptions of bx - Correct Answer✔️✔️-DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt
Determinism - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Cause & effect
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
Empiricism - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
Experimentation - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Basic strategy of most sciences.
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Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
Replication - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Repeating experiments
Parisomy - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.
Philosophical Doubt - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
7 dimensions of ABA - Correct Answer✔️✔️-BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
Behavioral - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
Applied - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Socially significant bxs
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Technological - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Procedures clearly & precisely so they are
replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Procedures should be based on
principles of ABA
Analytic - Correct Answer✔️✔️-AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control,
Causation
A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality - Correct Answer✔️✔️-AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
Effective - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Improves bx in a practical manner
Mentalism Terminology - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Hypothetical Constructs
Explanatory Fictions
Circular Reasoning
4 Branches of Behavior Analysis - Correct Answer✔️✔️-CASE
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
ABA
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