BCBA task list questions and answers graded A+ 2023

BCBA task listA-1 Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e., description, prediction, control). - correct answer A-2 Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism). - correct answer A-3 Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism. - correct answer A-4 Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis. - correct answer A-5 Describe and define the dimensions of applied behavior analysis (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968). - correct answer B-1 Define and provide examples of behavior, response, and response class. - correct answer B-2 Define and provide examples of stimulus and stimulus class. - correct answer Stimulus: any event, external or internal to the organism that can affect behavior Stimulus Class: a group of stimulus that share common elements along formal, temporal, or functional dimensions B-3 Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning. - correct answer B-4 Define and provide examples of positive and negative reinforcement contingencies. - correct answer Positive reinforcement: presentation of a stimulus contingent on a behavior that results in an increase in the frequency or future probability of that behavior Negative reinforcement: removal of a stimulus contingent on a behavior that results in an increase in the frequency or future probability of that behavior B-5 Define and provide examples of schedules of reinforcement. - correct answer B-6 Define and provide examples of positive and negative punishment contingencies. - correct answer Positive punishment: presentation of a stimulus contingent on a behavior that results in a decrease in the frequency or future probability of that behavior Negative punishment: removal of a stimulus contingent on a behavior that results in a decrease in the frequency or future probability of that behavior B-7 Define and provide examples of automatic and socially mediated contingencies. - correct answer B-8 Define and provide examples of unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers and punishers. - correct answer B-9 Define and provide examples of operant extinction. - correct answer termination of a response-reinforcer relation through the discontinuation of reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior B-10 Define and provide examples of stimulus control. - correct answer a situation in which the frequency, latency, or duration of a behavior is altered by the presence of or absence of an antecedent stimulus B-11 Define and provide examples of discrimination, generalization, and maintenance. - correct answer Discrimination: the process in which operant behavior occurs only in the presence of the original SD Generalization: the process by which a similar operant response occurs in the presence of different stimuli B-12 Define and provide examples of motivating operations. - correct answer environmental variable that alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of a stimulus and alters (increases or decreases) the frequency of a behavior that has been previously reinforced or punished by that stimulus B-13 Define and provide examples of rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior. - correct answer