ABA SECTION A; PHILOSOPHICAL
UNDERPINNINGS TEST
What are the three objectives of ABA? - ANSWER 1. Enhance socially
meaningful behaviors.
2. Evaluate the environmental influence on behavior.
3. Use assessment-based and data-driven decision making
What are the three different stages of scientific understanding? - ANSWER 1.
Description 2. Prediction (also known as correlation or covariance)
3. Control (AKA causation).
What are the five philosophical assumptions underlying ABA? - Answer 1:
Determinism.
2. Empiricism.
3. Parsimony
4. Pragmaticism
5. Selectionism.
Determinism is the foundation on which science is built.
The world is orderly, predictable, and lawful, with everything based on cause
and effect; if/then conditions.
Empiricism is the foundation of knowledge.
The act of making objective observations and measurements.
Hint: Empiricism equals ___ =___=___. - ANSWER Empiricism = evidence,
data, and facts.
Parsimony - Answer Before contemplating more sophisticated theories, simple
and rational ones must be ruled out.
Pragmatism - Answer A realistic approach to problems that seeks truth through
proof.
A philosophy that investigates how things came to be as they are and how we
can change them.
, A probabilistic AB-because-of-C philosophy: ANSWER At the behavioral
level, the relationship between the context (A) and the behavior (B) is
determined by the consequence (C).
Selectionism - ANSWER Selection based on consequences.
The scientific notion that everything evolves as a result of behavioral
consequences.
What were the three terms previously linked with the philosophical
assumptions? - Answer 1: Experimentation.
2. Replication.
3. Philosophical Doubt
What are the seven dimensions of ABA (Baer, Wolf, & Risley)? Answer: 1.
Behavioral 2. Applied
3. Technological.
4. Conceptually systematic 5. Analytic 6. Generalizability
7. Effective.
What are the three primary positions of the Behavioral component of ABA? -
ANSWER 1. Target the behavior that has to be improved.
2. Behavior must be measured with simply descriptive language.
3. Determine who's behavior has altered.
What are the two points on the Applied dimension of ABA? - ANSWER 1:
Enhances socially significant conduct.
2. Helps significant others.
What is the number one position in ABA's Technological dimension? -
ANSWER Procedures that are clear and exact to replicate. Must be defined and
can be followed as a recipe.
What is the first position of the conceptually systematic dimension of ABA? -
ANSWER ABA is not a series of tricks. Instead, all ABA methods should be
based on the fundamental principles of behavior analysis, with the discipline
integrated.
UNDERPINNINGS TEST
What are the three objectives of ABA? - ANSWER 1. Enhance socially
meaningful behaviors.
2. Evaluate the environmental influence on behavior.
3. Use assessment-based and data-driven decision making
What are the three different stages of scientific understanding? - ANSWER 1.
Description 2. Prediction (also known as correlation or covariance)
3. Control (AKA causation).
What are the five philosophical assumptions underlying ABA? - Answer 1:
Determinism.
2. Empiricism.
3. Parsimony
4. Pragmaticism
5. Selectionism.
Determinism is the foundation on which science is built.
The world is orderly, predictable, and lawful, with everything based on cause
and effect; if/then conditions.
Empiricism is the foundation of knowledge.
The act of making objective observations and measurements.
Hint: Empiricism equals ___ =___=___. - ANSWER Empiricism = evidence,
data, and facts.
Parsimony - Answer Before contemplating more sophisticated theories, simple
and rational ones must be ruled out.
Pragmatism - Answer A realistic approach to problems that seeks truth through
proof.
A philosophy that investigates how things came to be as they are and how we
can change them.
, A probabilistic AB-because-of-C philosophy: ANSWER At the behavioral
level, the relationship between the context (A) and the behavior (B) is
determined by the consequence (C).
Selectionism - ANSWER Selection based on consequences.
The scientific notion that everything evolves as a result of behavioral
consequences.
What were the three terms previously linked with the philosophical
assumptions? - Answer 1: Experimentation.
2. Replication.
3. Philosophical Doubt
What are the seven dimensions of ABA (Baer, Wolf, & Risley)? Answer: 1.
Behavioral 2. Applied
3. Technological.
4. Conceptually systematic 5. Analytic 6. Generalizability
7. Effective.
What are the three primary positions of the Behavioral component of ABA? -
ANSWER 1. Target the behavior that has to be improved.
2. Behavior must be measured with simply descriptive language.
3. Determine who's behavior has altered.
What are the two points on the Applied dimension of ABA? - ANSWER 1:
Enhances socially significant conduct.
2. Helps significant others.
What is the number one position in ABA's Technological dimension? -
ANSWER Procedures that are clear and exact to replicate. Must be defined and
can be followed as a recipe.
What is the first position of the conceptually systematic dimension of ABA? -
ANSWER ABA is not a series of tricks. Instead, all ABA methods should be
based on the fundamental principles of behavior analysis, with the discipline
integrated.
