BCBA Exam Section A Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)

BCBA Exam Section A Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass) Four branches of behavior analysis - Answer️️ -behaviorism, experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis BACB's definition of ABA - Answer️️ -a science based on the use of learning principles to improve socially important behavior. What does the BACB state ABA focuses on? - Answer️️ -assessing the environmental influences of behavior, assessment-based intervention, and data based decision making. Science definition - Answer️️ -an organized approach for collecting knowledge and understanding about the natural world Purposes of science - Answer️️ -to find truths in nature, which are universally understood and independent of any group's beliefs or opinions, and to understand the subject that is being studied 1. Description 2. Prediction 3. Control - Answer️️ -3 Levels of Scientific Understanding Description - Answer️️ -facts that are derived from systematically observed events, that can be quantified and classified to help us test for ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Monday, August 19, 2024 10:32 PM 2 possible relationships, and that can help us identify a hypothesis for further exploration. Correlation, Covariation - Answer️️ -Prediction AKAs Prediction - Answer️️ -when repeat observations show that there is a consistent relationship between the occurrence of two events False - Answer️️ -True/False: Prediction=Cause Control - Answer️️ -a functional relation is established when science confirms what has been predicted (an experimental demonstration has been conducted) lowest: Description, Mid: prediction, highest: control - Answer️️ -Order of three levels of scientific understanding Causation - Answer️️ -Control AKA Philosophical assumptions of ABA - Answer️️ -determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism, selections Determinism - Answer️️ -what science is based on, believes the world is an orderly, predictable, lawful place, where everything falls into a cause/effect or if/then condition assumption that everything happens because of other events - Answer️️ - Determinism key point ©SOPHIABENNET@2024/2025 Monday, August 19, 2024 10:32 PM 3 Empricism - Answer️️ -upon what knowledge is built, uses objective observations and measurements, requires objective quantification and detailed descriptions of events experimental and data based scientific approach - Answer️️ -Empiricism key point relies on the simplest theory with the fewest assumptions - Answer️️ - Parsimony key point Parsimony - Answer️️ -before considering more complex explanations, you must first rule out the simplest and most logical explanations Behavioral, Applied, Technological, Concept