BCBA EXAM COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Description.
Answer: Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
◉ Prediction.
Answer: AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean
one causes the other
◉ Control.
Answer: 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.
Answer: DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt
◉ Determinism.
Answer: Cause & effect
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
◉ Empiricism.
Answer: Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon
observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
,◉ Experimentation.
Answer: Basic strategy of most sciences.
Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
◉ Replication.
Answer: Repeating experiments
◉ Parisomy.
Answer: The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before
complex explanations.
◉ Philosophical Doubt.
Answer: Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
◉ 7 dimensions of ABA.
Answer: BATCAGE or GET A CAB
, Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
◉ Behavioral.
Answer: Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
◉ Applied.
Answer: Socially significant bxs
◉ Technological.
Answer: Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
◉ Conceptually Systematic.
Answer: Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Description.
Answer: Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
◉ Prediction.
Answer: AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean
one causes the other
◉ Control.
Answer: 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.
Answer: DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt
◉ Determinism.
Answer: Cause & effect
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
◉ Empiricism.
Answer: Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon
observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
,◉ Experimentation.
Answer: Basic strategy of most sciences.
Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
◉ Replication.
Answer: Repeating experiments
◉ Parisomy.
Answer: The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before
complex explanations.
◉ Philosophical Doubt.
Answer: Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
◉ 7 dimensions of ABA.
Answer: BATCAGE or GET A CAB
, Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
◉ Behavioral.
Answer: Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
◉ Applied.
Answer: Socially significant bxs
◉ Technological.
Answer: Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
◉ Conceptually Systematic.
Answer: Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
