ABA 5043 FIT Test
Questions and Complete
Solutions Graded A+
Direct observation - Answer: behavior and environmental events within environmental context
Measurement - Answer: quantifying different dimensions of behavior and environmental events
Graphed data - Answer: ongoing data charted on different types of graphical displays
Environmental Manipulation - Answer: systematically altering antecedents and/or consequences
Systematic evaluation - Answer: using single-case designs to control for extraneous variables
Single case designs - Answer: individuals serve as their own control
Analysis and interpretation - Answer: examining data displays to determine functional relations
Pragmatism - Answer: truth of theories evaluated based on the success of application
ABA practice - Answer: Assess and improve socially significant human behavior with behavior analysis
Outcomes - Answer: Functional statements about what a person wants to accomplish and attain in their
life
Response cycle - Answer: Beginning, middle, and end of a response
, Target behavior - Answer: A behavior of interest defined by its topography or function
Functional response definitions - Answer: Responses defined by occurrence under particular
antecedents or consequences
Topographical response definitions - Answer: Responses defined by physical features or form of the
response
Response products - Answer: Observable changes in environment after a response
Episodes - Answer: Brief periods of responding that include the occurrence of one or more behaviors
GOOD response definitions - Answer: Objective, clear, and complete
COMPLETE response definitions - Answer: Boundaries are defined
CLEAR definitions - Answer: (1) Readable and unambiguous
(2) Allow for replication
Questions for testing definitions - Answer: Can you count it?
Can someone else see it?
Can you break it down?
Reason for behavior development - Answer: Skill deficit or performance problem
Reason for behavior strengthening - Answer: Performs behavior, but lacks mastery or fluency
Reason for behavior weakening/replacement - Answer: Behavioral excess
Questions and Complete
Solutions Graded A+
Direct observation - Answer: behavior and environmental events within environmental context
Measurement - Answer: quantifying different dimensions of behavior and environmental events
Graphed data - Answer: ongoing data charted on different types of graphical displays
Environmental Manipulation - Answer: systematically altering antecedents and/or consequences
Systematic evaluation - Answer: using single-case designs to control for extraneous variables
Single case designs - Answer: individuals serve as their own control
Analysis and interpretation - Answer: examining data displays to determine functional relations
Pragmatism - Answer: truth of theories evaluated based on the success of application
ABA practice - Answer: Assess and improve socially significant human behavior with behavior analysis
Outcomes - Answer: Functional statements about what a person wants to accomplish and attain in their
life
Response cycle - Answer: Beginning, middle, and end of a response
, Target behavior - Answer: A behavior of interest defined by its topography or function
Functional response definitions - Answer: Responses defined by occurrence under particular
antecedents or consequences
Topographical response definitions - Answer: Responses defined by physical features or form of the
response
Response products - Answer: Observable changes in environment after a response
Episodes - Answer: Brief periods of responding that include the occurrence of one or more behaviors
GOOD response definitions - Answer: Objective, clear, and complete
COMPLETE response definitions - Answer: Boundaries are defined
CLEAR definitions - Answer: (1) Readable and unambiguous
(2) Allow for replication
Questions for testing definitions - Answer: Can you count it?
Can someone else see it?
Can you break it down?
Reason for behavior development - Answer: Skill deficit or performance problem
Reason for behavior strengthening - Answer: Performs behavior, but lacks mastery or fluency
Reason for behavior weakening/replacement - Answer: Behavioral excess
