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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...

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BCBA Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

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.



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"When I eat 37 pizzas, I get fat"

Control - Answer✔️✔️-Functional Relation.



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.



Requires control of variables other than the DV.

Replication - Answer✔️✔️-Repeating experiments

Determine reliability and usefulness

Discover mistakes

Parsimony - Answer✔️✔️-The simplest theory.


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Philosophical Doubt - Answer✔️✔️-Having healthy skepticism

Behavioral - Answer✔️✔️-Observable, measurable, in need of improvement

Applied - Answer✔️✔️-Improves every day life of clients through socially
significant behaviors.

Technological - Answer✔️✔️-Defines procedures clearly.

so they are REPLICABLE.

Conceptually Systematic - Answer✔️✔️-procedures tied to the principles of
behavior analysis

Analytical - Answer✔️✔️-A functional relation is demonstrated



Believability.



Is experimental control enough to prove a reliable functional relation?

Generality - Answer✔️✔️-Extends behavior across time, settings and/or
other behaviors.

Effective - Answer✔️✔️-Improves behavior in a practical manner

Mentalism - Answer✔️✔️-assumes an inner dimension separate from
behavior that influences behavior.




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Subjective. Feelings/attitudes

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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