ABA 620 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What are the four Branches of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - - Radical Behaviorism
- Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
- Applied Behavior Analysis ABA
- Professional Practice or Practice Guided by Behavior Analysis
What are the seven dimensions of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Behavioral, Applied,
Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Analytic, Generality, Effective,
What is the Behavioral dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Must study behavior in need
of improvement, the behavior must be measurable, and understand whose behavior has changed after a
change in behavior is observed during investigation.
What is the applied dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Must select behaviors to change
that are socially significant for participants....and/or improve the day-to-day life experience of participants
or significant others.
What is the Technological dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Technological when all of
its operative procedures are identified and described with sufficient detail and clarity "such that a reader
has a fair chance of replicating the application with the same results" (Baer, Blount, Detrich, & Stokes,
1987, p. 320)
What is the Conceptually Systematic dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Procedures for
changing behavior and any interpretations of how or why those procedures were effective should be
described in terms of the relevant principle(s) from which they were derived.
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What are the four Branches of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - - Radical Behaviorism
- Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
- Applied Behavior Analysis ABA
- Professional Practice or Practice Guided by Behavior Analysis
What are the seven dimensions of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Behavioral, Applied,
Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Analytic, Generality, Effective,
What is the Behavioral dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Must study behavior in need
of improvement, the behavior must be measurable, and understand whose behavior has changed after a
change in behavior is observed during investigation.
What is the applied dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Must select behaviors to change
that are socially significant for participants....and/or improve the day-to-day life experience of participants
or significant others.
What is the Technological dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Technological when all of
its operative procedures are identified and described with sufficient detail and clarity "such that a reader
has a fair chance of replicating the application with the same results" (Baer, Blount, Detrich, & Stokes,
1987, p. 320)
What is the Conceptually Systematic dimension of ABA? - CORRECT ANSWER - Procedures for
changing behavior and any interpretations of how or why those procedures were effective should be
described in terms of the relevant principle(s) from which they were derived.
