BCBA Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Applied Behavior Analysis - Answer️️ -A 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
Evid...
Applied Behavior Analysis - Answer✔️✔️-A 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 - Answer✔️✔️-A systematic approach for seeking and organizing
knowledge about the natural world.
Purpose of science - Answer✔️✔️-To achieve a thorough understanding of
the phenomena under study. In ABA, the phenomena are socially
important behaviors.
Levels of Scientific Understanding - Answer✔️✔️-Description, Prediction,
Control
Description - Answer✔️✔️-Systematic observations that can be quantified
and classified. Not causal explanations.
"I ate 37 pizzas while studying for the exam."
Prediction - Answer✔️✔️-Two events may regularly occur at the same time.
This does not necessarily mean one causes the other.
IV causes change in DV reliably-shown through experiment
Give Kiki her mud on breaks, aggressions decrease
Determinism - Answer✔️✔️-Cause and effect. Lawfulness: If/Then
statements. The world is orderly and predictable.
Empiricism - Answer✔️✔️-Facts. Experimental, data based scientific
approach, drawing upon observation and experience. Requires objective
quantification and detailed description of events.
Experimentation (Experimental analysis) - Answer✔️✔️-manipulating
variables so as to see the effects on the dependent variable.
Hypothetical Construct - Answer✔️✔️-A presumed but unobserved inner
process or entity, (e.g., Freud's id, ego, and superego).
Explanatory Fictions - Answer✔️✔️-Fictitious 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 - Answer✔️✔️-Cause & effect are both inferred from the
same information.
Behaviorism - Answer✔️✔️-the science of behavior.
Environmental explanations of behavior.
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior - Answer✔️✔️-Examines philosophical,
theoretical. historical, and methodological issues
ABA - Answer✔️✔️-Behavior 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 - Answer✔️✔️-Implementing ABA within various
professions. (Education, sports, psychology, job safety, health business,
animal training, commerce)
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