BCBA Exam Prep questions with correct answers

ABA - correct answer Scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that influence socially significant behaviour AND developing technology of behaviour change that is practical and applicable. Evidence based and APPLIED Science (definition and purpose) - correct answer Definition: systematic approach for seeking and organizing information about the natural world - based on determinism Purpose: to achieve a thorough understanding of phenomena under study (Socially- significant behaviour behaviour) 3 Levels of Scientific Understanding - correct answer Description: systematic observations that can be quantified and classified- not casual explanations Prediction: when 2 events occur at same time with some scientific probability - doesn't necessarily mean that they cause one another (correlation/covariation): Control (causation): Functional Relation: HIGHEST LEVEL OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING. experimental demonstration that one event (IV) leads to another event (DV) 6 Attitudes of Science/ Philosophical Assumptions of Behaviour - correct answer DEER PP Determinism Empiricism Experimentation (Experimental Analysis)