Bcba Exam Bds Modules Updated Questions And Correct Answers

BCBA EXAM BDS MODULES UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. The idea that the value of a philosophic or scientific proposition depends on whether adopting it
leads to success at achieving a particular goal
Answer:
Pragmatism

Question:
2. Whether a response, once made, is repeated in the future depends on the consequences that follow
it
Answer:
Selectionism

Question:
3. What components does empiricism include?
Answer:
- Behavior being quantified
- Objective observation of behavior

Question:
4. What are some of the components of experimentation?
Answer:
- Is a defining feature of behavior analysis
- Involves arranging events to evaluate their influence on other event
- requires manipulation of the independent variable
- Is an evaluation of how one event is influenced by other events

Question:
5. What is behavior that is the result of an individual's genetic background?
Answer:
Phylogenic

Question:
6. Is operant behavior largely ontogenic or phylogenic?
Answer:
Ontogenic

Question:
7. Is ontogenic behavior emitted or elicited?
Answer:
Emitted

Question:
8. Is respondent behavior primarily ontogenic or phylogenic?

, Answer:
Phylogenic

Question:
9. Is phylogenic behavior emitted or elicited?
Answer:
Elicited

Question:
10. What is the assumption of determinism?
Answer:
All events have causes

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11. Behavior analysis is predicted on assumptions and attitudes of science, including
Answer:
- Parsimony
- Determinism (lawfulness of behavior)
- empiricism
- replication
- philosophic doubt
- experimentation (scientific manipulation)

Question:
12. What is philosophic doubt?
Answer:
The idea that knowledge is tentative and may need to be revised if there is compelling evidence to do
so

Question:
13. Human behavior is a product of the contingencies of survival that account for respondent behavior
(phylogeny) and the contingencies of reinforcement that strengthen behavior (ontogeny). This
statement reflects the underlying philosophical assumption known as?
Answer:
Selectionism

Question:
14. Despite reading two elegant experiments that describe behavioral momentum in terms of
fundamental behavior principles, a researcher believes there are not enough data to support the
existence of this phenomenon. This researcher's position most closely represents the underlying
assumptions of?
Answer:
Philosophic doubt

Question:
15. From a deterministic perspective, variability in behavioral data is evidence of?
Answer:
Uncontrolled influences