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BCBA EXAM (PASS THE BIG BOOK 5TH EDITION) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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BCBA EXAM (PASS THE BIG BOOK 5THEDITION) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
What is ABA? - ANSWER Evidence-based applied science for ASD and other developmental disabilities
What is a science that is based on the use of learning principles to improve socially important behaviors,
focuses on assessing environmental influences on behavior, is an assessment-based intervention, and
involves data based decision-making? - ANSWER ABA
What is an organized approach for collecting knowledge and and understanding about the natural
world? - ANSWER Science
What are the purposes of science? - ANSWER 1. To find truths in nature, which are universally
understood and independent of any group's beliefs and/or opinions
2. To understand the subject that is being studied. In ABA, this refers to the socially significant behaviors
that we aim to change.
3. Provides us with 3 levels of understanding
Acronym: Titanic Sunk Under (TSU)
What are the 3 levels of scientific understanding? - ANSWER Description, Prediction, Control
Acronym: Dana Priya Can (DPC) (help you PASS)
What is the 1st level, 2nd level, and 3rd level of scientific understanding? - ANSWER 1st level of scientific
understanding: Description
2nd level of scientific understanding: Prediction
3rd level of scientific understanding: Control
, What are facts that are derived from systematically observed events, can be quantified and classified to
help us test for possible relationships, and facts that help us identify a hypothesis for further
explanation? - ANSWER Description
What is an example of description? - ANSWER George hugged his mom 5x today and each time he
hugged her, she game him a kiss on the forehead.
What are two AKAs of prediction? - ANSWER Correlation, covariation
What is it called when repeat observations show that there is a consistent relationship between the
occurrence of 2 events (covariation/correlation)? - ANSWER Prediction
What is meant by "prediction" relation? - ANSWER Can be used to predict the probability of 1 event
occurring when the other event occurs
Science asks us to hypothesize and make predictions/scientific guesses. Does prediction = cause? -
ANSWER No. Prediction does not equal cause.
Does 2 events occurring at the same time mean 1 causes the other? - ANSWER No because of prediction.
We can make a scientific prediction, but we need a little more to confirm this relationship.
What is an example of prediction? - ANSWER During the winter season, people get more colds.
What is an AKA of "control" - ANSWER Causation
What term is used when describing control? - ANSWER Functional Relation
What is established when science confirms what has been predicted: an experimental demonstration
that manipulating 1 event (independent variable (IV) results in a change in another event (dependent
variable (DV)), and this change can only be attributable to the independent variable? - ANSWER
Functional Relation
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