BF Skinner correct answers in preparation for the BCAB certification exam, please know that the
material is based on the work of _____________
Standard Celeration Chart correct answers only standardized form of data measurement in our
science
Dr Ogden Lindsey correct answers coined the term SAFMEDS circa 1980 to refer to the cards
and how to best use them for learning
SAFMEDS correct answers Say All Fast Minute Every Day Shuffle
Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) correct answers - single governing body for
professionals in the field of behavior analysis
- established in 1998 to provide certification to professionals in an effort to establish minimum
criteria to be a reactionary
science correct answers a systematic approach fro seeking and organizing knowledge about the
natural world
Three levels of understanding correct answers description, prediction, control
descriptive correct answers studies that produce a collection of facts about the observed events
that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts
correlation correct answers when a systematic co-variation occurs between two events, we are
able to predict the probability that one event will occur in conjunction with the other event
,control correct answers - highest level of scientific understanding
- specifically manipulate one event in order to produce a reliable change in another event
independent variable correct answers The factor that is manipulated; variable whose effect is
being studied
dependent variable correct answers The outcome factor in which we observe change; the variable
that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
Functional Relation correct answers when one event is specifically manipulated in order to
produce a reliable change in another event, and the change in the dependent variable in not likely
due to other extraneous factors (confounding variables)
dependent variable correct answers - the "behavior" we wish to change
- the change we see in target bx
independent variable correct answers - the "intervention" we employ
- the stimuli we manipulate
Functional Relation correct answers when we manipulate the independent variable and see a
change in the dependent variable and that change is not likely due to confounding variables
determinism correct answers assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which
phenomena occur as a result of other events
Empiricism correct answers The objective observation of the phenomena of interest
,Replication correct answers repeating of experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness
of the findings
parsimony correct answers considers the simplest , most logical explanation of a phenomenon
before more complex explanations are considered
3 major branches of behavior analysis correct answers Behaviorism
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Experimental Analysis of Behavior correct answers natural science approach for discovering
orderly and reliable relations between behaviors and various types of environmental variables of
which it functions.
Behaviorism correct answers the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) correct answers established by Bear, Wolf, and Risley in 1968
with 7 guiding dimentions
Radical Behaviorism correct answers Attempts to study all behavior, including private events,
such as thoughts/feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person and
species.
methodological behaviorism correct answers A philosophical position that views behavioral
events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science.
The Behavior of Organisms correct answers - skinner describes some of his most important
research in ____
, - describes experiments that demonstrated orderly and reliable relationships between behavior
and the environment
Applied dimension of ABA correct answers - Improving the socially significant behaviors of
people's lives
- Bear et al (1968) : applied research is constrained to examining behaviors which are socially
important (socially significant) rather than convenient for study
Behavioral dimension of ABA correct answers behaviors that are observable and measurable
Analytic dimension of ABA correct answers defines how we arrive to our decision as to whether
or not behavior change occurred as we predicted
technological dimension of ABA correct answers Defines procedures clearly and in detail so they
are replicable
Conceptually Systematic Dimension of ABA correct answers rely on behavioral procedures
derived from the research, not just random attempts to change behavior
Effective (Dimension of ABA) correct answers shows that the behavior we selected was
objectively measures and it demonstrated a reliable change
Generality (Dimension of ABA) correct answers - golden standard of ABA procedures
- when an intervention not only changes behavior in one setting with on person, but maintains
across other settings/people
positive reinforcement correct answers when a stimulus is added and future frequencies of
behavior maintain or increase