BCBA exam-PASStheBIGABAEXAM
3 levels of scientific understanding ans: DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description ans: Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction ans: AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the other
Control ans: 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 ans: DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt
Determinism ans: Cause & effect
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
Empiricism ans: Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
Experimentation ans: Basic strategy of most sciences.
Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
,Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
Replication ans: Repeating experiments
Parisomy ans: The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.
Philosophical Doubt ans: Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
7 dimensions of ABA ans: BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
Behavioral ans: Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
Applied ans: Socially significant bxs
Technological ans: Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic ans: Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
Analytic ans: AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality ans: AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
Effective ans: Improves bx in a practical manner
Mentalism Terminology ans: Hypothetical Constructs
Explanatory Fictions
Circular Reasoning
4 Branches of Behavior Analysis ans: CASE
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
,ABA
Behavior Service Delivery
Experimental Analysis of Bx (EAB)
2 types of bx ans: Respondent
Operant
Respondent Bx ans: AKA: Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned, US-UR
Elicited
Involuntary
Reflex
Habituation
Habituation ans: Eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly that respondent bx diminishes
Phylogenic ans: Bx that is genetic
Respondent conditioning ans: AKA: Classical Conditioning, Pavlovian Conditioning, S-S Pairing, CS-CR
When new stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents.
Operant Behavior ans: 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 ans: Reductions in responding by repeated or prolonged presentation to antecedent
stimulus.
Ontogentic ans: Learning that results from interactions with environment
Operant Contingency ans: 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 ans: What is the primary analysis in ABA?
, Contiguity ans: When 2 stimuli occur close together in time, resulting in an association of those 2 stimuli.
3 Principles of Bx ans: PER
Punishment
Extinction
Reinforcement
All strategies are derived from these 3 principles.
applied ans: ABA is a(n) _______ science.
ABA ans: 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 ans: To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study (socially significant
bxs)
Response ans: A single instance of bx.
Behavior ans: Larger set/class or responses that share physical dimensions or functions.
Response Class ans: 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. ans: Can responses in the same
response class look different?
Repertoire ans: 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.
Environment ans: Complex, dynamic universe of events that differs from instance to instance.
All bx occurs within an environmental context.
Stimulus ans: Physical events that affect the bx of an individual.
Internal or external to the individual.
An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells.
Stimulus Class ans: A group of antecedent stimuli that have a common effect on an operant class.
Group members of a stimulus class tend to evoke or abate the same bx or response class, yet may vary
across physical dimensions.
3 levels of scientific understanding ans: DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Description ans: Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction ans: AKA: correlation; covariation
2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the other
Control ans: 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 ans: DEER PP
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentation
Replication
Parimony
Philosophical Doubt
Determinism ans: Cause & effect
Lawfulness
Orderly & predictable
Empiricism ans: Facts
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation & experience.
Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.
Experimentation ans: Basic strategy of most sciences.
Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.
,Experiment to determine if one event caused another.
Replication ans: Repeating experiments
Parisomy ans: The simplest theory.
All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.
Philosophical Doubt ans: Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
7 dimensions of ABA ans: BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytic
Generality
Effective
Behavioral ans: Observable events.
Must be a bx in need of improvement.
Applied ans: Socially significant bxs
Technological ans: Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
RECIPE
Conceptually Systematic ans: Procedures should be based on principles of ABA
Analytic ans: AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality ans: AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs
Effective ans: Improves bx in a practical manner
Mentalism Terminology ans: Hypothetical Constructs
Explanatory Fictions
Circular Reasoning
4 Branches of Behavior Analysis ans: CASE
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
,ABA
Behavior Service Delivery
Experimental Analysis of Bx (EAB)
2 types of bx ans: Respondent
Operant
Respondent Bx ans: AKA: Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned, US-UR
Elicited
Involuntary
Reflex
Habituation
Habituation ans: Eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly that respondent bx diminishes
Phylogenic ans: Bx that is genetic
Respondent conditioning ans: AKA: Classical Conditioning, Pavlovian Conditioning, S-S Pairing, CS-CR
When new stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents.
Operant Behavior ans: 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 ans: Reductions in responding by repeated or prolonged presentation to antecedent
stimulus.
Ontogentic ans: Learning that results from interactions with environment
Operant Contingency ans: 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 ans: What is the primary analysis in ABA?
, Contiguity ans: When 2 stimuli occur close together in time, resulting in an association of those 2 stimuli.
3 Principles of Bx ans: PER
Punishment
Extinction
Reinforcement
All strategies are derived from these 3 principles.
applied ans: ABA is a(n) _______ science.
ABA ans: 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 ans: To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study (socially significant
bxs)
Response ans: A single instance of bx.
Behavior ans: Larger set/class or responses that share physical dimensions or functions.
Response Class ans: 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. ans: Can responses in the same
response class look different?
Repertoire ans: 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.
Environment ans: Complex, dynamic universe of events that differs from instance to instance.
All bx occurs within an environmental context.
Stimulus ans: Physical events that affect the bx of an individual.
Internal or external to the individual.
An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells.
Stimulus Class ans: A group of antecedent stimuli that have a common effect on an operant class.
Group members of a stimulus class tend to evoke or abate the same bx or response class, yet may vary
across physical dimensions.
