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BCBA Exam - Pass the Big ABA Exam (2025)
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS ( DETAILED & ELABORATED) ACTUAL
EXAM 2025 TEST!!
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Terms in this set (46)
- A scientific approach for discovering
environmental variables that reliably influence
Applied Behavior socially significant behavior and for developing a
Analysis (ABA) technology of behavior change that is practical and
applicable.
- ABA is evidence based APPLIED science.
- A systematic approach for seeking and organizing
Science knowledge about the natural world.
- Science is based on determinism.
- To achieve a thorough understanding of the
phenomena under study.
Purpose of science
- In ABA, the phenomena are socially important
behaviors.
D - Description:
3 Levels of Scientific
P - Prediction
Understanding (DPC)
C - Control
- Systematic observations that can be quantified
and classified (not causal explanations).
Description
- EX: Number of praise statements made by
teachers in a classroom.
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(AKA: Correlation, Covariation)
- Two events may regularly occur at the same time.
This does not necessarily mean one causes the
Prediction
other.
- EX: When the weather is hot, there are more
drowning deaths.
(AKA: Causation)
- Functional Relation.
- THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SCIENTIFIC
UNDERSTANDING.
Control - Experimental demonstration that manipulating one
even results in another event.
- EX: In a classroom, students that were given
breaks every 20 min exhibited 0 instances from out
of seat behavior.
D-Determinism
6 Attitudes of E-Empiricism
Science/Philosophical E-Experimentation
Assumptions of Behavior R-Reliability
(DEER PP) P-Parsimony
P-Philosophic Doubt
- Cause and effect
Determinsim - Lawfulness: If/Then Statements
- The world is orderly and predictable
- FACTS
- Experimental, data-based scientific approach,
Empricism drawing upon observation and experience
- Requires objective quantification and detailed
description of events
- The basic strategy of most sciences
- Requires manipulating variables so as to see the
effects on the dependent variable (DV)
Experimentation - An assessment to determine if one event caused
another event
- Requires that all variables be controlled except
the DV
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BCBA Exam - Pass the Big ABA Exam (2025)
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS ( DETAILED & ELABORATED) ACTUAL
EXAM 2025 TEST!!
Save
Terms in this set (46)
- A scientific approach for discovering
environmental variables that reliably influence
Applied Behavior socially significant behavior and for developing a
Analysis (ABA) technology of behavior change that is practical and
applicable.
- ABA is evidence based APPLIED science.
- A systematic approach for seeking and organizing
Science knowledge about the natural world.
- Science is based on determinism.
- To achieve a thorough understanding of the
phenomena under study.
Purpose of science
- In ABA, the phenomena are socially important
behaviors.
D - Description:
3 Levels of Scientific
P - Prediction
Understanding (DPC)
C - Control
- Systematic observations that can be quantified
and classified (not causal explanations).
Description
- EX: Number of praise statements made by
teachers in a classroom.
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(AKA: Correlation, Covariation)
- Two events may regularly occur at the same time.
This does not necessarily mean one causes the
Prediction
other.
- EX: When the weather is hot, there are more
drowning deaths.
(AKA: Causation)
- Functional Relation.
- THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SCIENTIFIC
UNDERSTANDING.
Control - Experimental demonstration that manipulating one
even results in another event.
- EX: In a classroom, students that were given
breaks every 20 min exhibited 0 instances from out
of seat behavior.
D-Determinism
6 Attitudes of E-Empiricism
Science/Philosophical E-Experimentation
Assumptions of Behavior R-Reliability
(DEER PP) P-Parsimony
P-Philosophic Doubt
- Cause and effect
Determinsim - Lawfulness: If/Then Statements
- The world is orderly and predictable
- FACTS
- Experimental, data-based scientific approach,
Empricism drawing upon observation and experience
- Requires objective quantification and detailed
description of events
- The basic strategy of most sciences
- Requires manipulating variables so as to see the
effects on the dependent variable (DV)
Experimentation - An assessment to determine if one event caused
another event
- Requires that all variables be controlled except
the DV
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