BCBA EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
3 levels of scientific understanding - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-DPC
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Description
Prediction
Control
Description - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Systematic observations that can be
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quantified & classified
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Prediction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: correlation; covariation
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2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes
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the other
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Control - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: causation
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Functional relation. |
The highest level of scientific understanding.
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Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV) results in another
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event (DV).
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,6 attitudes of science
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Philosophical assumptions of bx - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-DEER PP
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Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt |
Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Cause & effect
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Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
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Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Facts
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Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation &
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experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
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Experimentation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Basic strategy of most sciences.
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,Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
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Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
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Replication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Repeating experiments
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Parisomy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The simplest theory.
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All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex
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explanations.
Philosophical Doubt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Having healthy skepticism & a
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critical eye
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7 dimensions of ABA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-BATCAGE or GET A CAB
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Behavioral
Applied
Technological |
Conceptually Systematic |
Analytic
Generality
Effective
, Behavioral - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Observable events.
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Must be a bx in need of improvement.
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Applied - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Socially significant bxs
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Technological - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Procedures clearly & precisely so they are
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replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Procedures should be based on
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principles of ABA | |
Analytic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation,
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Control, Causation
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A functional relation is demonstrated.
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Generality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: Generalization
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Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
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Effective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Improves bx in a practical manner
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SOLUTIONS
3 levels of scientific understanding - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-DPC
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Description
Prediction
Control
Description - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Systematic observations that can be
| | | | | | | |
quantified & classified
| |
Prediction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: correlation; covariation
| | | | | |
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
the other
|
Control - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: causation
| | | | |
Functional relation. |
The highest level of scientific understanding.
| | | | |
Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV) results in another
| | | | | | | | | |
event (DV).
|
,6 attitudes of science
| | |
Philosophical assumptions of bx - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-DEER PP
| | | | | | |
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt |
Determinism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Cause & effect
| | | | |
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
| |
Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Facts
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Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation &
| | | | | | | |
experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
| | | | | | |
Experimentation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Basic strategy of most sciences.
| | | | | | | |
,Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
| | | | | | |
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
| | | | | | |
Replication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Repeating experiments
| | | |
Parisomy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The simplest theory.
| | | | |
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex
| | | | | | | | | | | |
explanations.
Philosophical Doubt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Having healthy skepticism & a
| | | | | | | | |
critical eye
|
7 dimensions of ABA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-BATCAGE or GET A CAB
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Behavioral
Applied
Technological |
Conceptually Systematic |
Analytic
Generality
Effective
, Behavioral - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Observable events.
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Must be a bx in need of improvement.
| | | | | | |
Applied - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Socially significant bxs
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Technological - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Procedures clearly & precisely so they are
| | | | | | | | | |
replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Procedures should be based on
| | | | | | | | |
principles of ABA | |
Analytic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation,
| | | | | | |
Control, Causation
|
A functional relation is demonstrated.
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Generality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-AKA: Generalization
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Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
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Effective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Improves bx in a practical manner
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