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BCBA TASK LIST 5TH EDITION (A1-A5) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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BCBA TASK LIST 5TH EDITION (A1-A5)QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - ANSWER The science in which tactics derived from the principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the
variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.
Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science. - ANSWER 3 Levels of Scientific Understanding:
Description, Prediction, and Control
Description - ANSWER Facts that are derived from systematically observed events.
Prediction - ANSWER When repeated observations show that there is a consistent relationship between
the occurrence of 2 events.
Control - ANSWER An experimental demonstration that manipulating 1 event (IV) results in a change in
another event (DV) and this change can only be attributable to the independent variable.
Explain the Philosophical Assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis. - ANSWER (DEPPS-
PER) Determinism Empiricism Pragmatism Parsimony Selectionism Philosophical Doubt Experimentation
Replication
Determinism - ANSWER The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which
phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy-nilly, accidental fashion.
Empiricism - ANSWER The act of objective observation and measurement.
Parsimony - ANSWER The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or
conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations.
Pragmatism - ANSWER A practical approach to problems in which truth is found in the process of
verification.
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