Pass the Big ABA Exam Section 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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ABA
Institution
ABA
Pass the Big ABA Exam Section 1
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Applied Behavior Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER- A scientific approach for discovering
environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for
developing a technology of behavior change tha...
Pass the Big ABA Exam Section 1
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Applied Behavior Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER- A scientific approach for discovering
environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for
developing a technology of behavior change that is practical and applicable
Applied - CORRECT ANSWER- ABA is what kind of evidence-based science?
Science - CORRECT ANSWER- A systematic approach for seeking and organizing
knowledge about the natural world
Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER- Science is based on what attitude of science?
Socially important behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER- What is the phenomena being studied
under ABA?
Purpose of Science - CORRECT ANSWER- To achieve a thorough understanding of the
phenomena under study
Description
Prediction
Control - CORRECT ANSWER- What are the 3 levels of scientific understanding?
Description - CORRECT ANSWER- Systematic observations that can be quantified and
classified, it is NOT causal explanations
Prediction (Correlation or Covariation) - CORRECT ANSWER- Two events may regularly
occur at the same time. This doesn't necessarily mean one causes the other
, Control (Causation) - CORRECT ANSWER- Functional relation is being established. This is
the highest level of scientific understanding. Experimental demonstration that manipulating
one event results in another event
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parsimony
Philosophical Doubt - CORRECT ANSWER- What are the 6 attitudes of
science/philosophical assumptions of behavior?
Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER- Cause and effect, LAWFULNESS, the world is
orderly and predictable
Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER- FACTS, experimental, data-based scientific approach,
drawing upon observation and experience, requires objective quantification and detailed
description of events
Experimentation (Experimental Analysis) - CORRECT ANSWER- The basic strategy of
most sciences, requires manipulating variables so as to see the effects on the DV, it is an
assessment to determine if one event causes another event. This requires ALL variables be
controlled, except the DV
Replication - CORRECT ANSWER- Repeating experiments. This is the method that
scientists use to determine the reliability and usefulness of their findings. How scientists
discover their mistakes, and how science is a self-correcting enterprise
Parsimony - CORRECT ANSWER- The simplest theory, all simple and logical explanations
must be ruled out before considering more complex ones. This helps scientists fit findings
within the field's existing knowledge base
Philosophical Doubt - CORRECT ANSWER- Having healthy skepticism and a critical eye
about the results of studies
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