BCBA 5th Edition Task
List Exam Questions and
Complete Solutions
Graded A+
Description - Answer: is a collection of facts about an observed event.
Prediction - Answer: repeated observations reveal that observing other events can consistently result in
accurately anticipating an outcome
Control - Answer: a specific change in one event can be reliably produced by scientific manipulation or
variables.
Radical behaviorism - Answer: is a branch of behaviorism that includes thoughts and feelings in addition
to the observable events
Generality/Generalization - Answer: Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environment other
than the environment which it was taught and spreads to other behaviors not targeted by the
intervention
Effective - Answer: behavior that changes in a practical manner that results in clinical or social
significance
Technological - Answer: all procedures of an intervention, data and results of an experiment or study are
cleared outlined in detail so they can be understood, replicated and implemented by anyone
Applied - Answer: the commitment of effecting improvements in people's behaviors to enhance their
quality of life.
, Conceptually systematic - Answer: all procedures used in practice should be related to the basic
behavioral principles of behavior analysis from which they were derived.
Analytic - Answer: when the experimenter has demonstrated a reliable change and functional relation
between the manipulated events of a target behavior.
Behavioral - Answer: Observable and measurable behavior that must be the behavior in need of
improvement.
7 dimension of behavior - Answer: GET A CAB
Behavior - Answer: an organism interaction with the environment "Dead man's test"
Response - Answer: a specific instance of behavior
Stimulus - Answer: events in the environment that affect the behavior of an individual
Stimulus class - Answer: a group of stimuli that are similar along one or more dimensions ( for example,
they look or sounds similar, they have a common effect on the behavior, or they at similar times relative
to the response).
Respondent conditioning - Answer: a learning process wherein a previously neutral stimulus (which
would not alter behavior) acquires the ability to elicit a response (alter behavior).
Operant conditioning - Answer: consequences that results in an increase or decrease the frequency in
the same type of behavior under similar conditions (remember operant behaviors are controlled by their
consequences)
Positive reinforcement - Answer: a response is followed by the presentation of a stimulus that results in
an increase in behavior under similar circumstances
List Exam Questions and
Complete Solutions
Graded A+
Description - Answer: is a collection of facts about an observed event.
Prediction - Answer: repeated observations reveal that observing other events can consistently result in
accurately anticipating an outcome
Control - Answer: a specific change in one event can be reliably produced by scientific manipulation or
variables.
Radical behaviorism - Answer: is a branch of behaviorism that includes thoughts and feelings in addition
to the observable events
Generality/Generalization - Answer: Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environment other
than the environment which it was taught and spreads to other behaviors not targeted by the
intervention
Effective - Answer: behavior that changes in a practical manner that results in clinical or social
significance
Technological - Answer: all procedures of an intervention, data and results of an experiment or study are
cleared outlined in detail so they can be understood, replicated and implemented by anyone
Applied - Answer: the commitment of effecting improvements in people's behaviors to enhance their
quality of life.
, Conceptually systematic - Answer: all procedures used in practice should be related to the basic
behavioral principles of behavior analysis from which they were derived.
Analytic - Answer: when the experimenter has demonstrated a reliable change and functional relation
between the manipulated events of a target behavior.
Behavioral - Answer: Observable and measurable behavior that must be the behavior in need of
improvement.
7 dimension of behavior - Answer: GET A CAB
Behavior - Answer: an organism interaction with the environment "Dead man's test"
Response - Answer: a specific instance of behavior
Stimulus - Answer: events in the environment that affect the behavior of an individual
Stimulus class - Answer: a group of stimuli that are similar along one or more dimensions ( for example,
they look or sounds similar, they have a common effect on the behavior, or they at similar times relative
to the response).
Respondent conditioning - Answer: a learning process wherein a previously neutral stimulus (which
would not alter behavior) acquires the ability to elicit a response (alter behavior).
Operant conditioning - Answer: consequences that results in an increase or decrease the frequency in
the same type of behavior under similar conditions (remember operant behaviors are controlled by their
consequences)
Positive reinforcement - Answer: a response is followed by the presentation of a stimulus that results in
an increase in behavior under similar circumstances
