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BCBA Questions and CORRECT Answers 2024/2025
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BCBAApplied Behavior Analysis - ANSA scientific approach for discovering environmental variables
that reliably influence socially significant behaviour and for developing a technology of
behaviour change that is practical and applicable
Evidence based applied science.
Science - ANSA systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural
world.
Purpose of science - ANSTo achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study.
In ABA, the phenomena are socially important behaviors.
Levels of Scientific Understanding - ANSDescription, Prediction, Control
Description - ANSSystematic observations that can be quantified and classified. Not causal
explanations.
"I ate 37 pizzas while studying for the exam."
Prediction - ANSTwo events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not necessarily
mean one causes the other.
"When I eat 37 pizzas, I get fat"
Control - ANSFunctional Relation.
IV causes change in DV reliably-shown through experiment
Give Kiki her mud on breaks, aggressions decrease
Determinism - ANSCause and effect. Lawfulness: If/Then statements. The world is orderly and
predictable.
Empiricism - ANSFacts. Experimental, data based scientific approach, drawing upon
observation and experience. Requires objective quantification and detailed description of
events.
Experimentation (Experimental analysis) - ANSmanipulating variables so as to see the effects
on the dependent variable.
,Requires control of variables other than the DV.
Replication - ANSRepeating experiments
Determine reliability and usefulness
Discover mistakes
Parsimony - ANSThe simplest theory.
Philosophical Doubt - ANSHaving healthy skepticism
Behavioral - ANSObservable, measurable, in need of improvement
Applied - ANSImproves every day life of clients through socially significant behaviors.
Technological - ANSDefines procedures clearly.
so they are REPLICABLE.
Conceptually Systematic - ANSprocedures tied to the principles of behavior analysis
Analytical - ANSA functional relation is demonstrated
Believability.
Is experimental control enough to prove a reliable functional relation?
Generality - ANSExtends behavior across time, settings and/or other behaviors.
Effective - ANSImproves behavior in a practical manner
Mentalism - ANSassumes an inner dimension separate from behavior that influences behavior.
Subjective. Feelings/attitudes
Hypothetical Construct - ANSA presumed but unobserved inner process or entity, (e.g., Freud's
id, ego, and superego).
Explanatory Fictions - ANSFictitious variables that are another name for the observed behavior.
They contribute nothing to the variables responsible for maintaining behavior. (Knows, wants,
figures out)
Circular Reasoning - ANSCause & effect are both inferred from the same information.
Behaviorism - ANSthe science of behavior.
,Environmental explanations of behavior.
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior - ANSExamines philosophical, theoretical. historical, and
methodological issues
ABA - ANSBehavior analysts that assess, monitor, analyze, revise and communicate efforts of
their work. Create behavior change tactics that increase, teach, maintain, generalize and reduce
problem behavior.
Behavior Service Delivery - ANSImplementing ABA within various professions. (Education,
sports, psychology, job safety, health business, animal training, commerce)
Experimental Analysis of Behavior - ANSresearch on basic processes and principles; done
mostly in laboratories
Ivan Pavlov 1906 - ANSClassical Conditioning
Watson - ANSFirst to describe behaviorism as a formal system. Father of behaviorism.
Suggested study of behavior by direct observation of environmental stimuli and the response
they bring about.
Methodological Behaviorism - ANSOnly looks at public events in analysis of behavior. Private
events considered outside realm of science.
BF Skinner - ANSRadical behaviorism, included private events into an understanding of
behavior
Darwinian Selectionism - ANSThree term contingency with regard to species and survival where
all forms of life evolve as a result of selection with respect to function.
Pragmatism - ANSThe relation between setting (A) and behavior (B) is because of the
consequence (C).
How do things come about?
How are they changed?
Respondent Behavior - ANSReflex, involuntary, unlearned
behavior that occurs in an automatic response to some stimulus
Reflex - ANSA simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk
response.
Habituation - ANSA decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations.
, Getting used to the stimulus
Phylogeny - ANSBehavior inherited genetically
Operant Behavior - ANSEmitted/Evoked. Voluntary action
behaviors which are controlled by their consequences
Adaptation - ANSA trait that helps a population survive (Giraffe's long neck).
Changing to fit new conditions and environments- giraffes long necks reach leaves
Ontogeny - ANSLearning as a result of learning history
Contiguity - ANSWhen two stimuli occur close together in time, resulting in association.
(Pairing, cause of superstitious behavior)
Respondent Conditioning - ANSWhen new stimuli acquire ability to elicit respondents.
Operant Contingency - ANSAtecedent- behavior- consequence
A>B>C
3-term contingency
Respondent-Operant Interactions - ANSAn experience can often include both respondent &
operant conditioning that occur together at the same time.
3 Principles of Behavior - ANSPunishment, Extinction, Reinforcement
Response - ANSA single instance of behavior.
Measurable unit of analysis.
Behavior - ANSWhat an organism says or does
Response class - ANSBehaviors that serve same function.
Operant - ANSLearning based on of consequences of behavior.
Cause and effect
Repertoire - ANSAll the behaviors that an individual can do.
Environment - ANSThe context in which behavior occurs.
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