Pass the Big ABA Exam Section 1 UPDATED Questions and CORRECT Answers
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ABA
Institution
ABA
Pass the Big ABA Exam Section 1
UPDATED Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Define ABA - CORRECT ANSWER- A scientific approach to discovering environmental
variables that reliably influence SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT BEHAVIOR and for developing
a technology of behavior change that is practical and appl...
Pass the Big ABA Exam Section 1
UPDATED Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Define ABA - CORRECT ANSWER- A scientific approach to discovering environmental
variables that reliably influence SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT BEHAVIOR and for developing
a technology of behavior change that is practical and applicable.
APPLIED
Science - CORRECT ANSWER- systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge
about the natural world
DETERMINISM
Purpose of Science - CORRECT ANSWER- to achieve a thorough understanding of the
phenomena under study.
SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT
3 Levels of Scientific Understanding - CORRECT ANSWER- DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description - CORRECT ANSWER- systematic observations that can be quantified and
classified
NOT CAUSAL
AKA's for Prediction - CORRECT ANSWER- Correlation
, Covariation
Prediction - CORRECT ANSWER- Two events may regularly occur at the same time. This
does not mean one causes the other.
AKA for Control - CORRECT ANSWER- causation
Control - CORRECT ANSWER- The highest level of scientific understanding, experimental
demonstration that manipulating one event (IV) results in another event (DV).
FUNCTIONAL RELATION
6 Attitudes of Science/Philosophical Assumptions of Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER-
DEER PP
Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER- The world is orderly and predictable.
Cause and Effect
Lawfulness: If/Then statements
Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER- FACTS!
Experimental, data-based scientific approach drawing upon observation and experience.
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