BCBA 5th edition task list questions and answers

Description Correct Answer: is a collection of facts about an observed event. Prediction Correct Answer: repeated observations reveal that observing other events can consistently result in accurately anticipating an outcome Control Correct Answer: a specific change in one event can be reliably produced by scientific manipulation or variables. Radical behaviorism Correct Answer: is a branch of behaviorism that includes thoughts and feelings in addition to the observable events Generality/Generalization Correct Answer: Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environment other than the environment which it was taught and spreads to other behaviors not targeted by the intervention Effective Correct Answer: behavior that changes in a practical manner that results in clinical or social significance Technological Correct Answer: all procedures of an intervention, data and results of an experiment or study are cleared outlined in detail so they can be understood, replicated and implemented by anyone Applied Correct Answer: the commitment of effecting improvements in people's behaviors to enhance their quality of life. Conceptually systematic Correct Answer: all procedures used in practice should be related to the basic behavioral principles of behavior analysis from which they were derived. Analytic Correct Answer: when the experimenter has demonstrated a reliable change and functional relation between the manipulated events of a target behavior. Behavioral Correct Answer: Observable and measurable behavior that must be the behavior in need of improvement. 7 dimension of behavior Correct Answer: GET A CAB Behavior Correct Answer: an organism interaction with the environment "Dead man's test" Response Correct Answer: a specific instance of behavior Stimulus Correct Answer: events in the environment that affect the behavior of an individual