Basic Principles of ABA Exam Questions
With Revised Answers
What is ABA? - answer✔✔The science in which procedures derived from the principles of
behavior are systematically applied to improve socially significant behavior to a meaningful
degree and to demonstrate experimentally that the procedures employed were responsible for the
improvement in behavior.
Dimensions of ABA (7) - answer✔✔1. Applied
2. Behavioral
3. Analytic
4. Conceptually Systematic
5. Technological
6. Effective
7. Generavity
Goals of ABA (2) - answer✔✔To increase new skills (functioning)
To decrease problem behaviors (suffering)
What is Behavior? - answer✔✔An organism's interaction with it's environment that is
characterized by detectable displacement of space through time of some part of the organism that
results in a measurable change.
Response - answer✔✔Action of an organism
Topography - answer✔✔Physical form of behavior
(Poking, pointing, pushing button)
Response Class - answer✔✔Group of responses with the same function
Repertoire - answer✔✔All of the behaviors a person can do.
Antecedent - answer✔✔Environmental conditions that exist or occur prior to the target behavior
Consequence - answer✔✔Stimulus change that follows a target behavior
Environment - answer✔✔the entire spectrum of stimuli, internal and external, acting on an
organism
Stimulus - answer✔✔An energy change that affects an organism
Stimulus Class - answer✔✔Any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of elements (size,
shape, function)
Respondent Behavior - answer✔✔elicited by antecedent only through the two-term contingency
(Antecedent --> Response)
do not need to be learned (eye blink, coughing)
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