BCBA EXAM PASS the BIG ABA
EXAM QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
3 levels of scientific understanding - ANSẀER -DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description - ANSẀER -Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction - ANSẀER -AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the other
Control - ANSẀER -AKA: causation
Functional relation.
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 - ANSẀER -DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
,Philosophical Doubt
Determinism - ANSẀER -Cause & effect
Laẁfulness
Orderly & predictable
Empiricism - ANSẀER -Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, draẁing upon observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
Experimentation - ANSẀER -Basic strategy of most sciences.
Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
Replication - ANSẀER -Repeating experiments
Parisomy - ANSẀER -The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.
Philosophical Doubt - ANSẀER -Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
7 dimensions of ABA - ANSẀER -BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
Behavioral - ANSẀER -Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
,Applied - ANSẀER -Socially significant bxs
Technological - ANSẀER -Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic - ANSẀER -Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
Analytic - ANSẀER -AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality - ANSẀER -AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
Effective - ANSẀER -Improves bx in a practical manner
Mentalism Terminology - ANSẀER -Hypothetical Constructs
Explanatory Fictions
Circular Reasoning
4 Branches of Behavior Analysis - ANSẀER -CASE
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
ABA
Behavior Service Delivery
Experimental Analysis of Bx (EAB)
2 types of bx - ANSẀER -Respondent
Operant
Respondent Bx - ANSẀER -AKA: Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned, US-UR
Elicited
Involuntary
Reflex
, Habituation
Habituation - ANSẀER -Eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly that respondent bx diminishes
Phylogenic - ANSẀER -Bx that is genetic
Respondent conditioning - ANSẀER -AKA: Classical Conditioning, Pavlovian Conditioning, S-S
Pairing, CS-CR
Ẁhen neẁ stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents.
Operant Behavior - ANSẀER -AKA: S-R-S, 3 term contingency, ABC
Emit/evoke
Bx ẁhose probability is determined by its history of consequences.
Voluntary action.
Operants defined in terms of their relationship to controlling variables.
FUNCTION.
Encompasses both reinforcement & punishment.
Adaptation
Adaptation - ANSẀER -Reductions in responding by repeated or prolonged presentation to
antecedent stimulus.
Ontogentic - ANSẀER -Learning that results from interactions ẁith environment
Operant Contingency - ANSẀER -AKA: Behavioral Contingency, Contingency, 3-term
Contingency, ABC
The occasion for a response (SD), the response, & the outcome.
The dependency of a particular consequence on the occurrence of the bx.
Reinforcer or punisher is "contingent" on a bx
3-term contingency
ABC - ANSẀER -Ẁhat is the primary analysis in ABA?
EXAM QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
3 levels of scientific understanding - ANSẀER -DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description - ANSẀER -Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction - ANSẀER -AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the other
Control - ANSẀER -AKA: causation
Functional relation.
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 - ANSẀER -DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
,Philosophical Doubt
Determinism - ANSẀER -Cause & effect
Laẁfulness
Orderly & predictable
Empiricism - ANSẀER -Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, draẁing upon observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
Experimentation - ANSẀER -Basic strategy of most sciences.
Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
Replication - ANSẀER -Repeating experiments
Parisomy - ANSẀER -The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.
Philosophical Doubt - ANSẀER -Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
7 dimensions of ABA - ANSẀER -BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
Behavioral - ANSẀER -Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
,Applied - ANSẀER -Socially significant bxs
Technological - ANSẀER -Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic - ANSẀER -Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
Analytic - ANSẀER -AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality - ANSẀER -AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
Effective - ANSẀER -Improves bx in a practical manner
Mentalism Terminology - ANSẀER -Hypothetical Constructs
Explanatory Fictions
Circular Reasoning
4 Branches of Behavior Analysis - ANSẀER -CASE
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
ABA
Behavior Service Delivery
Experimental Analysis of Bx (EAB)
2 types of bx - ANSẀER -Respondent
Operant
Respondent Bx - ANSẀER -AKA: Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned, US-UR
Elicited
Involuntary
Reflex
, Habituation
Habituation - ANSẀER -Eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly that respondent bx diminishes
Phylogenic - ANSẀER -Bx that is genetic
Respondent conditioning - ANSẀER -AKA: Classical Conditioning, Pavlovian Conditioning, S-S
Pairing, CS-CR
Ẁhen neẁ stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents.
Operant Behavior - ANSẀER -AKA: S-R-S, 3 term contingency, ABC
Emit/evoke
Bx ẁhose probability is determined by its history of consequences.
Voluntary action.
Operants defined in terms of their relationship to controlling variables.
FUNCTION.
Encompasses both reinforcement & punishment.
Adaptation
Adaptation - ANSẀER -Reductions in responding by repeated or prolonged presentation to
antecedent stimulus.
Ontogentic - ANSẀER -Learning that results from interactions ẁith environment
Operant Contingency - ANSẀER -AKA: Behavioral Contingency, Contingency, 3-term
Contingency, ABC
The occasion for a response (SD), the response, & the outcome.
The dependency of a particular consequence on the occurrence of the bx.
Reinforcer or punisher is "contingent" on a bx
3-term contingency
ABC - ANSẀER -Ẁhat is the primary analysis in ABA?
