BCBA 5TH EDITION TASK LIST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
Description - ANSWER is a collection of facts about an observed event.
Prediction - ANSWER repeated observations reveal that observing other events can consistently result in
accurately anticipating an outcome
Control - ANSWER a specific change in one event can be reliably produced by scientific manipulation or
variables.
Radical behaviorism - ANSWER is a branch of behaviorism that includes thoughts and feelings in addition
to the observable events
Generality/Generalization - ANSWER Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environment other
than the environment which it was taught and spreads to other behaviors not targeted by the
intervention
Effective - ANSWER behavior that changes in a practical manner that results in clinical or social
significance
Technological - ANSWER all procedures of an intervention, data and results of an experiment or study are
cleared outlined in detail so they can be understood, replicated and implemented by anyone
Applied - ANSWER the commitment of effecting improvements in people's behaviors to enhance their
quality of life.
Conceptually systematic - ANSWER all procedures used in practice should be related to the basic
behavioral principles of behavior analysis from which they were derived.
Analytic - ANSWER when the experimenter has demonstrated a reliable change and functional relation
between the manipulated events of a target behavior.
, Behavioral - ANSWER Observable and measurable behavior that must be the behavior in need of
improvement.
7 dimension of behavior - ANSWER GET A CAB
Behavior - ANSWER an organism interaction with the environment "Dead man's test"
Response - ANSWER a specific instance of behavior
Stimulus - ANSWER events in the environment that affect the behavior of an individual
Stimulus class - ANSWER a group of stimuli that are similar along one or more dimensions ( for example,
they look or sounds similar, they have a common effect on the behavior, or they at similar times relative
to the response).
Respondent conditioning - ANSWER a learning process wherein a previously neutral stimulus (which
would not alter behavior) acquires the ability to elicit a response (alter behavior).
Operant conditioning - ANSWER consequences that results in an increase or decrease the frequency in
the same type of behavior under similar conditions (remember operant behaviors are controlled by their
consequences)
Positive reinforcement - ANSWER a response is followed by the presentation of a stimulus that results in
an increase in behavior under similar circumstances
Negative reinforcement - ANSWER a response is followed by the removal of a stimulus that results in an
increase on behavior under similar circumstances.
Fixed Ratio (FR) - ANSWER a schedule of reinforcement where reinforcement is provided after a fixed
number of responses occur
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
Description - ANSWER is a collection of facts about an observed event.
Prediction - ANSWER repeated observations reveal that observing other events can consistently result in
accurately anticipating an outcome
Control - ANSWER a specific change in one event can be reliably produced by scientific manipulation or
variables.
Radical behaviorism - ANSWER is a branch of behaviorism that includes thoughts and feelings in addition
to the observable events
Generality/Generalization - ANSWER Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environment other
than the environment which it was taught and spreads to other behaviors not targeted by the
intervention
Effective - ANSWER behavior that changes in a practical manner that results in clinical or social
significance
Technological - ANSWER all procedures of an intervention, data and results of an experiment or study are
cleared outlined in detail so they can be understood, replicated and implemented by anyone
Applied - ANSWER the commitment of effecting improvements in people's behaviors to enhance their
quality of life.
Conceptually systematic - ANSWER all procedures used in practice should be related to the basic
behavioral principles of behavior analysis from which they were derived.
Analytic - ANSWER when the experimenter has demonstrated a reliable change and functional relation
between the manipulated events of a target behavior.
, Behavioral - ANSWER Observable and measurable behavior that must be the behavior in need of
improvement.
7 dimension of behavior - ANSWER GET A CAB
Behavior - ANSWER an organism interaction with the environment "Dead man's test"
Response - ANSWER a specific instance of behavior
Stimulus - ANSWER events in the environment that affect the behavior of an individual
Stimulus class - ANSWER a group of stimuli that are similar along one or more dimensions ( for example,
they look or sounds similar, they have a common effect on the behavior, or they at similar times relative
to the response).
Respondent conditioning - ANSWER a learning process wherein a previously neutral stimulus (which
would not alter behavior) acquires the ability to elicit a response (alter behavior).
Operant conditioning - ANSWER consequences that results in an increase or decrease the frequency in
the same type of behavior under similar conditions (remember operant behaviors are controlled by their
consequences)
Positive reinforcement - ANSWER a response is followed by the presentation of a stimulus that results in
an increase in behavior under similar circumstances
Negative reinforcement - ANSWER a response is followed by the removal of a stimulus that results in an
increase on behavior under similar circumstances.
Fixed Ratio (FR) - ANSWER a schedule of reinforcement where reinforcement is provided after a fixed
number of responses occur
