BCBA Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
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.
,BCBA Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
The highest level of scientific understanding.
Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV)
results in another event (DV).
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
,BCBA Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
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.
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.
, BCBA Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
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.
(Grade A+)
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.
,BCBA Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
The highest level of scientific understanding.
Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV)
results in another event (DV).
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
,BCBA Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
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.
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.
, BCBA Exam Questions & Answers
(Grade A+)
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.
