ABA 620 EXAM SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
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⩥ Stimulus. Answer: Any event, object, or energy changing in the
environment that influences or can influence a person's behavior,
whether internal or external.
⩥ Controlling variables. Answer: Any factor that influences a specific
behavior (it is constantly present when a behavior occurs, and its
absence of which causes the behavior to stop).
⩥ Duration. Answer: The dimension that involves the length of a
behavior.
⩥ Latency. Answer: The time between behaviors.
⩥ Intensity. Answer: Severity of the behavior.
⩥ Frequency. Answer: Number of times a behavior occurs.
⩥ Overt behavior. Answer: A type of behavior that is externally
measurable.
, ⩥ Lawful behaviors. Answer: Behaviors that are influenced by other
behaviors, internal aspects, and inanimate objects (all part of the
environment).
⩥ Behavioral excess. Answer: Something you want to decrease.
⩥ Behavior deficit. Answer: Something you want to increase.
⩥ Behavioral modification. Answer: Not meant to be only clinical.
⩥ Pavlov. Answer: Known for respondent conditioning.
⩥ Thorndike. Answer: Known for cause and effect.
⩥ Watson. Answer: Founder of behaviorism.
⩥ Skinner. Answer: Founder of behavior modification (and operant
conditioning).
⩥ Respondent conditioning. Answer: Involuntary, based on
manipulating antecedents, the process where a neutral stimulus, through
AND ANSWERS FULLY VERIFIED STUDY
GUIDE
⩥ Stimulus. Answer: Any event, object, or energy changing in the
environment that influences or can influence a person's behavior,
whether internal or external.
⩥ Controlling variables. Answer: Any factor that influences a specific
behavior (it is constantly present when a behavior occurs, and its
absence of which causes the behavior to stop).
⩥ Duration. Answer: The dimension that involves the length of a
behavior.
⩥ Latency. Answer: The time between behaviors.
⩥ Intensity. Answer: Severity of the behavior.
⩥ Frequency. Answer: Number of times a behavior occurs.
⩥ Overt behavior. Answer: A type of behavior that is externally
measurable.
, ⩥ Lawful behaviors. Answer: Behaviors that are influenced by other
behaviors, internal aspects, and inanimate objects (all part of the
environment).
⩥ Behavioral excess. Answer: Something you want to decrease.
⩥ Behavior deficit. Answer: Something you want to increase.
⩥ Behavioral modification. Answer: Not meant to be only clinical.
⩥ Pavlov. Answer: Known for respondent conditioning.
⩥ Thorndike. Answer: Known for cause and effect.
⩥ Watson. Answer: Founder of behaviorism.
⩥ Skinner. Answer: Founder of behavior modification (and operant
conditioning).
⩥ Respondent conditioning. Answer: Involuntary, based on
manipulating antecedents, the process where a neutral stimulus, through
