Basic Principles of ABA Exam Questions and Answers | 100% Pass

Basic Principles of ABA Exam Questions and Answers | 100% Pass What is ABA? - Answer️️ -The science in which procedures derived from the principles of behavior are systematically applied to improve socially significant behavior to a meaningful degree and to demonstrate experimentally that the procedures employed were responsible for the improvement in behavior. Dimensions of ABA (7) - Answer️️ -1. Applied 2. Behavioral 3. Analytic 4. Conceptually Systematic 5. Technological 6. Effective 7. Generavity Goals of ABA (2) - Answer️️ -To increase new skills (functioning) To decrease problem behaviors (suffering) Properties of Science (6) - Answer️️ -1. Objective 2. Determinism 3. Empiricism 4. Parsimony 5. Scientific Manipulation ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM Page | 2 6. Philsophic Doubt Explanatory Fiction - Answer️️ -Circular way of viewing cause and effect. He's autistic because of his behaviors but his behaviors lead him to be autistic. B.F. Skinner - Answer️️ -1953 Related work with organisms to human behavior "Operant Conditioning" Pavlov - Answer️️ -Respondent/Classical Conditioning What is Behavior? - Answer️️ -An organism's interaction with it's environment that is characterized by detectable displacement of space through time of some part of the organism that results in a measurable change. Response - Answer️️ -Action of an organism Topography - Answer️️ -Physical form of behavior (Poking, pointing, pushing button) Response Class - Answer️️ -Group of responses with the same function Repertoire - Answer️️ -All of the behaviors a person can do. Antecedent - Answer️️ -Environmental conditions that exist or occur prior to the target behavior Consequence - Answer️️ -Stimulus change that follows a target behavior Environment - Answer️️ -the entire spectrum of stimuli, internal and external, acting on an organism Stimulus - Answer️️ -An energy change that affects an organism ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM Page | 3 Stimulus Class - Answer️️ -Any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of elements (size, shape, function) Respondent Behavior - Answer️️ -elicited by antecedent only through the two-term contingency (Antecedent --> Response) do not need to be learned (eye blink, coughing) Habituation - Answer️️ -Gradually diminishing response strength Respondent Conditioning - Answer️️ -Pavlov UCS -->Neutral Stimulus CS --->CR (stimulus pairing) Respondent Extinction - Answer️️ -Repeatedly presenting the uncon