ABA EXAMS 2024/2025
ABA EXAMS
©SOPHIABENNETT 9/2/24 2024/2025
, ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM
ABA SAFMEDS EXAM STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
A-B-A DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-Withdrawal design; considerations: end on baseline
A-B-A-B DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-Reversal design; an experiment reintroducing the
intervention enables the replication of treatment effects, which strengthens the
demonstration of experimental control.
Considerations: end on intervention phase
ABOLISHING OPERATION - Answer✔️✔️-A motivating operation that TEMPORARILY
decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus thereby having an ABATIVE
EFFECT on behavior
ACCURACY - Answer✔️✔️-The extent to which observed values, the data produced by
measuring an event, match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in
nature
ALTERNATING TREATMENT DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-the rapid alternation of two or
more distinct treatments while their effects on the target behavior are measured
ANECDOTAL OBSERVATION - Answer✔️✔️-a form of direct, continuous observation in
which the observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account of all
behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those
behaviors as those events occur in the client's natural environment
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ANTECDENT - Answer✔️✔️-An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or
occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
AUTOMATIC REINFORCEMENT - Answer✔️✔️-Reinforcement that occurs independent
of the social mediation of others (e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch).
AUTOMATICITY OF REINFORCEMENT - Answer✔️✔️-behavior is modified by its
consequences irrespective of the person's awareness
AVERSIVE STIMULUS - Answer✔️✔️-an unpleasant or noxious stimulus
AVOIDANCE CONTINGENCY - Answer✔️✔️-contingency in which a response prevents
or postpones the presentation of a stimulus-
EX: opening an umbrella prevents presentation of rain
BASELINE LOGIC - Answer✔️✔️-the experimental reasoning inherent in single subject
experimental designs; entails three elements: prediction, verification, and replication.
BASELINE - Answer✔️✔️-A condition of an experiment in which the independent variable
is not present; data obtained during baseline are the basis for determining the effects of
the independent variable/basis of comparison
a control condition that does not necessarily mean the absence of instruction or
treatment, only the absence of a specific independent variable of experimental interest.
BEHAVIOR - Answer✔️✔️-the activity of living organisms, everything that an organism
does. " that portion of an organsim's interaction with its environment that is
characterized by detectable displacement in space through time of some part of the
organism and results in a measurable change in at least one aspect of the environment"
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BEHAVIOR CHANGE TACTIC - Answer✔️✔️-a consistent method for changing behavior
derived from one or more principles of behavior.
BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST - Answer✔️✔️-a checklist that provides descriptions of specific
skills and the conditions under which each skill should be observed
BEHAVIOR TRAP - Answer✔️✔️-An interrelated community of contingencies of
reinforcement that can be especially powerful, producing substantial and long-lasting
behavior changes.
BEHAVIORAL TRAP - Answer✔️✔️-The phenomenon in which a change in one
component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on
that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite
direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule.
BEHAVIORAL CUSP - Answer✔️✔️-a behavior that has sudden and dramatic
consequences that extend well beyond the idiosyncratic change itself because it
exposes the person to new environments, reinforcers, contingencies, responses, and
stimulus controls
BEHAVIORAL MOMENTUM - Answer✔️✔️-A metaphor to describe a rate of responding
and its resistance to change following an alteration in reinforcement conditions.
CELERATION - Answer✔️✔️-the change (acceleration or deceleration) in rate of
responding over time
CHANGING CRITERION DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-An experimental Design in which an
initial baseline phase is followed by a series of treatment phases consisting of
successive and gradually changing criteria for reinforcement or punishment.
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ABA EXAMS
©SOPHIABENNETT 9/2/24 2024/2025
, ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM
ABA SAFMEDS EXAM STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
A-B-A DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-Withdrawal design; considerations: end on baseline
A-B-A-B DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-Reversal design; an experiment reintroducing the
intervention enables the replication of treatment effects, which strengthens the
demonstration of experimental control.
Considerations: end on intervention phase
ABOLISHING OPERATION - Answer✔️✔️-A motivating operation that TEMPORARILY
decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus thereby having an ABATIVE
EFFECT on behavior
ACCURACY - Answer✔️✔️-The extent to which observed values, the data produced by
measuring an event, match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in
nature
ALTERNATING TREATMENT DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-the rapid alternation of two or
more distinct treatments while their effects on the target behavior are measured
ANECDOTAL OBSERVATION - Answer✔️✔️-a form of direct, continuous observation in
which the observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account of all
behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those
behaviors as those events occur in the client's natural environment
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ANTECDENT - Answer✔️✔️-An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or
occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
AUTOMATIC REINFORCEMENT - Answer✔️✔️-Reinforcement that occurs independent
of the social mediation of others (e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch).
AUTOMATICITY OF REINFORCEMENT - Answer✔️✔️-behavior is modified by its
consequences irrespective of the person's awareness
AVERSIVE STIMULUS - Answer✔️✔️-an unpleasant or noxious stimulus
AVOIDANCE CONTINGENCY - Answer✔️✔️-contingency in which a response prevents
or postpones the presentation of a stimulus-
EX: opening an umbrella prevents presentation of rain
BASELINE LOGIC - Answer✔️✔️-the experimental reasoning inherent in single subject
experimental designs; entails three elements: prediction, verification, and replication.
BASELINE - Answer✔️✔️-A condition of an experiment in which the independent variable
is not present; data obtained during baseline are the basis for determining the effects of
the independent variable/basis of comparison
a control condition that does not necessarily mean the absence of instruction or
treatment, only the absence of a specific independent variable of experimental interest.
BEHAVIOR - Answer✔️✔️-the activity of living organisms, everything that an organism
does. " that portion of an organsim's interaction with its environment that is
characterized by detectable displacement in space through time of some part of the
organism and results in a measurable change in at least one aspect of the environment"
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BEHAVIOR CHANGE TACTIC - Answer✔️✔️-a consistent method for changing behavior
derived from one or more principles of behavior.
BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST - Answer✔️✔️-a checklist that provides descriptions of specific
skills and the conditions under which each skill should be observed
BEHAVIOR TRAP - Answer✔️✔️-An interrelated community of contingencies of
reinforcement that can be especially powerful, producing substantial and long-lasting
behavior changes.
BEHAVIORAL TRAP - Answer✔️✔️-The phenomenon in which a change in one
component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on
that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite
direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule.
BEHAVIORAL CUSP - Answer✔️✔️-a behavior that has sudden and dramatic
consequences that extend well beyond the idiosyncratic change itself because it
exposes the person to new environments, reinforcers, contingencies, responses, and
stimulus controls
BEHAVIORAL MOMENTUM - Answer✔️✔️-A metaphor to describe a rate of responding
and its resistance to change following an alteration in reinforcement conditions.
CELERATION - Answer✔️✔️-the change (acceleration or deceleration) in rate of
responding over time
CHANGING CRITERION DESIGN - Answer✔️✔️-An experimental Design in which an
initial baseline phase is followed by a series of treatment phases consisting of
successive and gradually changing criteria for reinforcement or punishment.
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