ABA 622 PRE TEST CERTIFICATION
PREPARATION GUIDE
◉ Applied.
Answer: ABA is what kind of evidence-based science?
◉ Science.
Answer: A systematic approach for seeking and organizing
knowledge about the natural world
◉ Determinism.
Answer: Science is based on what attitude of science?
◉ Socially important behaviors.
Answer: What is the phenomena being studied under ABA?
◉ Purpose of Science.
Answer: To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena
under study
◉ Description
Prediction
, Control.
Answer: What are the 3 levels of scientific understanding?
◉ Description.
Answer: Systematic observations that can be quantified and
classified, it is NOT causal explanations
◉ Prediction (Correlation or Covariation).
Answer: Two events may regularly occur at the same time. This
doesn't necessarily mean one causes the other
◉ Control (Causation).
Answer: Functional relation is being established. This is the highest
level of scientific understanding. Experimental demonstration that
manipulating one event results in another event
◉ Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parsimony
Philosophical Doubt.
PREPARATION GUIDE
◉ Applied.
Answer: ABA is what kind of evidence-based science?
◉ Science.
Answer: A systematic approach for seeking and organizing
knowledge about the natural world
◉ Determinism.
Answer: Science is based on what attitude of science?
◉ Socially important behaviors.
Answer: What is the phenomena being studied under ABA?
◉ Purpose of Science.
Answer: To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena
under study
◉ Description
Prediction
, Control.
Answer: What are the 3 levels of scientific understanding?
◉ Description.
Answer: Systematic observations that can be quantified and
classified, it is NOT causal explanations
◉ Prediction (Correlation or Covariation).
Answer: Two events may regularly occur at the same time. This
doesn't necessarily mean one causes the other
◉ Control (Causation).
Answer: Functional relation is being established. This is the highest
level of scientific understanding. Experimental demonstration that
manipulating one event results in another event
◉ Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parsimony
Philosophical Doubt.
