ABAT STUDY 2026 EXAMS GUIDED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)? - ✔✔- ABA is the science in which the
principles of the analysis of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially
significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for
behavior change
- a way to teach, manage and reduce behaviors
- GOAL : to directly observe, measure, and analyze the relations between environment
and behavior
✔✔What are the 6 key components of ABA? - ✔✔1. ABA is guided by the attitudes and
methods of scientific inquiry
2. All procedures are described and implemented in a systematic, technological manner
3. Not all means of changing behavior qualify as ABA; only those derived from the basic
principles of behavior
4. Focus on socially significant behavior
5. Meaningful improvement in important behavior
6. Analyze the factors responsible for improvement
✔✔What is Pairing? - ✔✔- the first component to good teaching is that the individual
must associate you with good things happening
- pairing yourself of associating yourself with reinforcers is highly important
, - pairing turns you into the reinforcers and provides increased compliance and
instructional control
- pairing is essential in developing a fun working relationship with clients
✔✔What does A-B-C mean? - ✔✔Antecedents
Behavior
Consequence
✔✔What are Antecedents? - ✔✔- proactive
- are events or environments that TRIGGER behavior
- this occurs BEFORE the behavior
- who what where when
✔✔What is Behavior? - ✔✔- is an action that is both observable and measurable
- described in a way an outside observe can easily identify the action
- it occurs as a result of the antecedent
✔✔What is the Consequence? - ✔✔- reactive
- is the response to the consumers behavior that will either strengthen or weakening the
future likelihood of the consumer engaging in the same behavior in the future
✔✔What is Motivating Operation? - ✔✔- motivating operations are environmental
variables that :
1. Alter the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer
2. Alter the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus,
object or event
✔✔What are the effects of Motivating Operation? - ✔✔- affects how much you want
something
- affects what you will do to get it
✔✔What is negative reinforcement? - ✔✔- the removal of an aversive stimulus or
negative outcome in which the response or behavior is strengthened by stopping or
removing it
✔✔What is positive reinforcement? - ✔✔- the addition of a reinforcing stimulus following
a behavior that makes it more likely the behavior will occur again
✔✔What is positive punishment? - ✔✔- this works by presenting (adding) a negative
consequence after an undesired behavior is exhibited, making the behavior less likely to
happen in the future
✔✔What is negative punishment? - ✔✔- taking something good (removing) or desirable
way after an undesired behavior is exhibited, making the behavior less likely to occur
again
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)? - ✔✔- ABA is the science in which the
principles of the analysis of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially
significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for
behavior change
- a way to teach, manage and reduce behaviors
- GOAL : to directly observe, measure, and analyze the relations between environment
and behavior
✔✔What are the 6 key components of ABA? - ✔✔1. ABA is guided by the attitudes and
methods of scientific inquiry
2. All procedures are described and implemented in a systematic, technological manner
3. Not all means of changing behavior qualify as ABA; only those derived from the basic
principles of behavior
4. Focus on socially significant behavior
5. Meaningful improvement in important behavior
6. Analyze the factors responsible for improvement
✔✔What is Pairing? - ✔✔- the first component to good teaching is that the individual
must associate you with good things happening
- pairing yourself of associating yourself with reinforcers is highly important
, - pairing turns you into the reinforcers and provides increased compliance and
instructional control
- pairing is essential in developing a fun working relationship with clients
✔✔What does A-B-C mean? - ✔✔Antecedents
Behavior
Consequence
✔✔What are Antecedents? - ✔✔- proactive
- are events or environments that TRIGGER behavior
- this occurs BEFORE the behavior
- who what where when
✔✔What is Behavior? - ✔✔- is an action that is both observable and measurable
- described in a way an outside observe can easily identify the action
- it occurs as a result of the antecedent
✔✔What is the Consequence? - ✔✔- reactive
- is the response to the consumers behavior that will either strengthen or weakening the
future likelihood of the consumer engaging in the same behavior in the future
✔✔What is Motivating Operation? - ✔✔- motivating operations are environmental
variables that :
1. Alter the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer
2. Alter the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus,
object or event
✔✔What are the effects of Motivating Operation? - ✔✔- affects how much you want
something
- affects what you will do to get it
✔✔What is negative reinforcement? - ✔✔- the removal of an aversive stimulus or
negative outcome in which the response or behavior is strengthened by stopping or
removing it
✔✔What is positive reinforcement? - ✔✔- the addition of a reinforcing stimulus following
a behavior that makes it more likely the behavior will occur again
✔✔What is positive punishment? - ✔✔- this works by presenting (adding) a negative
consequence after an undesired behavior is exhibited, making the behavior less likely to
happen in the future
✔✔What is negative punishment? - ✔✔- taking something good (removing) or desirable
way after an undesired behavior is exhibited, making the behavior less likely to occur
again
