BACB Task List questions well answered rated A+ 2023/2024

BACB Task Listlawfulness of behavior - correct answer behavior is determined by specific conditions/variables empiricism - correct answer objective observation of the phenomena of interest based on thorough description, systematic and repeated measurement, and precise quantification of the phenomena of interest. experimental analysis - correct answer manipulate IV to observe changes in DV parsimony - correct answer all simple logical explanations for phenomenon under investigation must be ruled out before more complex explanations are considered (choose the simplest explanation that requires the fewest assumptions) determinism in behavior analysis - correct answer in behavior analysis there is an assumption that behavior is lawful and determined based upon specific conditions/variables mentalistic versus environmental explanations of behavior - correct answer mentalistic is internal (thoughts feelings) and environmental is external experimental analysis of behavior - correct answer the field of basic scientific investigation concerned with analysis of operant behavior applied behavior analysis - correct answer science in which the tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in the behavior behavioral technologies - correct answer clearly defined operative procedures that may be replicated by others based upon their descriptions explain behavior in behavior analytic terms - correct answer use the three term contingency dimensions of applied behavior analysis (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968) - correct answer applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, general behaviorism - correct answer the philosophy of the science of behavior determinism - correct answer the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events experiment - correct answer carefully conducted comparison of some DV under two or more conditions in which only one IV at a time differs across conditions explanatory fiction - correct answer a fictitious variable that often is simply another name for the observed behavior that contributes nothing to an understanding of the variables responsible for developing or maintaining the behavior functional relation - correct answer specific change in one event can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (as in functional analysis) hypothetical construct - correct answer presumed but unobserved entities that could not be manipulated in an experiment mentalism - correct answer an approach to the study of behavior which assumes that a mental or inner dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension methodological behaviorism - correct answer a philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science philosophic doubt - correct answer continued questioning of the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact; willingness to set aside most cherished beliefts to replace them with new knowledge