BCBA exam-PASStheBIGABAEXAM
3 levels of scientific understanding - Answer DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description - Answer Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction - Answer AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the
other
Control - 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 - Answer DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt
Determinism - Answer Cause & effect
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
Empiricism - Answer Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
Experimentation - Answer Basic strategy of most sciences.
,Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
Replication - Answer Repeating experiments
Parisomy - Answer The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.
Philosophical Doubt - Answer Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
7 dimensions of ABA - Answer BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
Behavioral - Answer Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
Applied - Answer Socially significant bxs
Technological - Answer Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic - Answer Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
Analytic - Answer AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality - Answer AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
Effective - Answer Improves bx in a practical manner
Mentalism Terminology - Answer Hypothetical Constructs
Explanatory Fictions
Circular Reasoning
,4 Branches of Behavior Analysis - Answer CASE
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
ABA
Behavior Service Delivery
Experimental Analysis of Bx (EAB)
2 types of bx - Answer Respondent
Operant
Respondent Bx - Answer AKA: Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned, US-UR
Elicited
Involuntary
Reflex
Habituation
Habituation - Answer Eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly that respondent bx
diminishes
Phylogenic - Answer Bx that is genetic
Respondent conditioning - Answer AKA: Classical Conditioning, Pavlovian Conditioning,
S-S Pairing, CS-CR
When new stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents.
Operant Behavior - Answer AKA: S-R-S, 3 term contingency, ABC
Emit/evoke
Bx whose probability is determined by its history of consequences.
Voluntary action.
Operants defined in terms of their relationship to controlling variables.
FUNCTION.
Encompasses both reinforcement & punishment.
Adaptation
Adaptation - Answer Reductions in responding by repeated or prolonged presentation to
antecedent stimulus.
Ontogentic - Answer Learning that results from interactions with environment
Operant Contingency - Answer AKA: Behavioral Contingency, Contingency, 3-term
Contingency, ABC
, The occasion for a response (SD), the response, & the outcome.
The dependency of a particular consequence on the occurrence of the bx.
Reinforcer or punisher is "contingent" on a bx
3-term contingency
ABC - Answer What is the primary analysis in ABA?
Contiguity - Answer When 2 stimuli occur close together in time, resulting in an
association of those 2 stimuli.
3 Principles of Bx - Answer PER
Punishment
Extinction
Reinforcement
All strategies are derived from these 3 principles.
applied - Answer ABA is a(n) _______ science.
ABA - Answer A scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably
influence socially significant bx & for developing a technology of bx change that is
practical & applicable
Science - Answer To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study
(socially significant bxs)
Response - Answer A single instance of bx.
Behavior - Answer Larger set/class or responses that share physical dimensions or
functions.
Response Class - Answer A group of bxs that comprise an operant.
Operant: Response-consequence relationship. Similar bxs that are strengthened or
weakened collectively as a result of operant conditioning.
Yes.
Can widely vary in form but are limited in topographical variations. - Answer Can
responses in the same response class look different?
Repertoire - Answer 1. All bxs that an individual can do.
2. A collection of knowledge & skills an individual has learned that are relevant to a
particular task.
3 levels of scientific understanding - Answer DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description - Answer Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction - Answer AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the
other
Control - 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 - Answer DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt
Determinism - Answer Cause & effect
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
Empiricism - Answer Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
Experimentation - Answer Basic strategy of most sciences.
,Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
Replication - Answer Repeating experiments
Parisomy - Answer The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.
Philosophical Doubt - Answer Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
7 dimensions of ABA - Answer BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
Behavioral - Answer Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
Applied - Answer Socially significant bxs
Technological - Answer Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic - Answer Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
Analytic - Answer AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality - Answer AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
Effective - Answer Improves bx in a practical manner
Mentalism Terminology - Answer Hypothetical Constructs
Explanatory Fictions
Circular Reasoning
,4 Branches of Behavior Analysis - Answer CASE
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
ABA
Behavior Service Delivery
Experimental Analysis of Bx (EAB)
2 types of bx - Answer Respondent
Operant
Respondent Bx - Answer AKA: Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned, US-UR
Elicited
Involuntary
Reflex
Habituation
Habituation - Answer Eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly that respondent bx
diminishes
Phylogenic - Answer Bx that is genetic
Respondent conditioning - Answer AKA: Classical Conditioning, Pavlovian Conditioning,
S-S Pairing, CS-CR
When new stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents.
Operant Behavior - Answer AKA: S-R-S, 3 term contingency, ABC
Emit/evoke
Bx whose probability is determined by its history of consequences.
Voluntary action.
Operants defined in terms of their relationship to controlling variables.
FUNCTION.
Encompasses both reinforcement & punishment.
Adaptation
Adaptation - Answer Reductions in responding by repeated or prolonged presentation to
antecedent stimulus.
Ontogentic - Answer Learning that results from interactions with environment
Operant Contingency - Answer AKA: Behavioral Contingency, Contingency, 3-term
Contingency, ABC
, The occasion for a response (SD), the response, & the outcome.
The dependency of a particular consequence on the occurrence of the bx.
Reinforcer or punisher is "contingent" on a bx
3-term contingency
ABC - Answer What is the primary analysis in ABA?
Contiguity - Answer When 2 stimuli occur close together in time, resulting in an
association of those 2 stimuli.
3 Principles of Bx - Answer PER
Punishment
Extinction
Reinforcement
All strategies are derived from these 3 principles.
applied - Answer ABA is a(n) _______ science.
ABA - Answer A scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably
influence socially significant bx & for developing a technology of bx change that is
practical & applicable
Science - Answer To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study
(socially significant bxs)
Response - Answer A single instance of bx.
Behavior - Answer Larger set/class or responses that share physical dimensions or
functions.
Response Class - Answer A group of bxs that comprise an operant.
Operant: Response-consequence relationship. Similar bxs that are strengthened or
weakened collectively as a result of operant conditioning.
Yes.
Can widely vary in form but are limited in topographical variations. - Answer Can
responses in the same response class look different?
Repertoire - Answer 1. All bxs that an individual can do.
2. A collection of knowledge & skills an individual has learned that are relevant to a
particular task.
