BCBA Exam with Answers (Rated
100%).
ABA Answer- Scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that influence socially significant
behavior and for developing a technology for behavior change that is practical and applicable
2. DEFINITION & PURPOSE OF SCIENCE Answer- Systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge. To
achieve a through understanding of the phenomena under study.
3. 3 LEVELS OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING Answer- Description, Prediction , Control
4. 6 ATTITUDES OF SCIENCE/ PHILOSOPHICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF BEHAVIOR Answer- DEER PP
5. DETERMINISM Answer- Cause/Effect - orderly
6. EMPIRICISM Answer- Facts - experimental data based scientific approach, requires objective quantification
and detailed description of events
7. EXPERIMENTATION Answer- Manipulating variables so see effects on DV, an assessment
8. REPLICATION Answer- Repeating Experiments Determines Reliability, Helps scientists discover mistakes and
self correct
9. PARSIMONY Answer- Simplest theory helps to fit findings into existing knowledge base
,10. PHILOSOPHICAL DOUBT Answer- healthy skepticism and critical eye.
11. 7 DIMENSIONS OF ABA Answer- BATCAGE
12. BEHAVIORAL Answer- Observable Events - The bx you chose must be the one in need of improvement
13. APPLIED Answer- Improves everyday life, improves socially significant behaviors, helps significant others
14. TECHNOLOGICAL Answer- Defines procedures in detail so they are replicable
15. CONCEPTUALLY SYSTEMATIC Answer- Procedures should be tied to basic principles
16. ANALYTIC Answer- Functional Relation/experimentation/control/causation A functional relationship is
demonstrated. BELIEVABILITY
17. GENERALITY Answer- Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bx
18. EFFECTIVE Answer- Improves behavior in a practical manner, not simply making a change that is
statistically significant
19. MENTALISM Answer- Explaining behavior that assumes an inner dimension exists and causes it.
20. HYPOTHETICAL CONSTRUCTS Answer- ex: Free Will - Presumed, but unobserved entities
21. EXPLANATORY FICTIONS Answer- Fictitious variables that are another name for observed bx. contributes
nothing to what is maintaining bx. ex: knows, wants, figures out
22. CIRCULAR REASONING Answer- cause and effect are inferred from the same place. ex. he cried because he
, felt sad.
23. BEHAVIORISM Answer- The philosophy of the science of bx. Environmental not mentalistic explanation of
bx
24. 4 BRANCHES OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS Answer- CASE
25. IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV Answer- 1850-1936
26. JOHN BROADUS WATSON Answer- 1913 - methodological behaviorism - looks at only publicly observable
events, not private events
27. BURRHUS FREDERIC SKINNER Answer-
28. DARWINIAN SELECTIONISM & PRAGMATISM Answer- Selection by consequences / probabilistic AB because
of C. How do things come to be and how can they be changed.
29. RESPONDENT BEHAVIOR/RESPONDENTCONDITIONING Answer- Elicited, involuntary, Habituation, Pavlov
US = UR = NS = CR= CS
30. REFLEX Answer- Eliciting stimulus (US) and the behavior it produces (UR) that is part of the genetic makeup
of the individual
31. HABITUATION Answer- When the eliciting stimuli is presented repeatedly - the strength of the respondent
bx diminishes
32. PHYLOGENY Answer- Behavior that is inherited
33. OPERANT BEHAVIOR/OPERANT CONTINGENCY Answer- Emit/Evoke - Any behavior whose probability of
100%).
ABA Answer- Scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that influence socially significant
behavior and for developing a technology for behavior change that is practical and applicable
2. DEFINITION & PURPOSE OF SCIENCE Answer- Systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge. To
achieve a through understanding of the phenomena under study.
3. 3 LEVELS OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING Answer- Description, Prediction , Control
4. 6 ATTITUDES OF SCIENCE/ PHILOSOPHICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF BEHAVIOR Answer- DEER PP
5. DETERMINISM Answer- Cause/Effect - orderly
6. EMPIRICISM Answer- Facts - experimental data based scientific approach, requires objective quantification
and detailed description of events
7. EXPERIMENTATION Answer- Manipulating variables so see effects on DV, an assessment
8. REPLICATION Answer- Repeating Experiments Determines Reliability, Helps scientists discover mistakes and
self correct
9. PARSIMONY Answer- Simplest theory helps to fit findings into existing knowledge base
,10. PHILOSOPHICAL DOUBT Answer- healthy skepticism and critical eye.
11. 7 DIMENSIONS OF ABA Answer- BATCAGE
12. BEHAVIORAL Answer- Observable Events - The bx you chose must be the one in need of improvement
13. APPLIED Answer- Improves everyday life, improves socially significant behaviors, helps significant others
14. TECHNOLOGICAL Answer- Defines procedures in detail so they are replicable
15. CONCEPTUALLY SYSTEMATIC Answer- Procedures should be tied to basic principles
16. ANALYTIC Answer- Functional Relation/experimentation/control/causation A functional relationship is
demonstrated. BELIEVABILITY
17. GENERALITY Answer- Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bx
18. EFFECTIVE Answer- Improves behavior in a practical manner, not simply making a change that is
statistically significant
19. MENTALISM Answer- Explaining behavior that assumes an inner dimension exists and causes it.
20. HYPOTHETICAL CONSTRUCTS Answer- ex: Free Will - Presumed, but unobserved entities
21. EXPLANATORY FICTIONS Answer- Fictitious variables that are another name for observed bx. contributes
nothing to what is maintaining bx. ex: knows, wants, figures out
22. CIRCULAR REASONING Answer- cause and effect are inferred from the same place. ex. he cried because he
, felt sad.
23. BEHAVIORISM Answer- The philosophy of the science of bx. Environmental not mentalistic explanation of
bx
24. 4 BRANCHES OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS Answer- CASE
25. IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV Answer- 1850-1936
26. JOHN BROADUS WATSON Answer- 1913 - methodological behaviorism - looks at only publicly observable
events, not private events
27. BURRHUS FREDERIC SKINNER Answer-
28. DARWINIAN SELECTIONISM & PRAGMATISM Answer- Selection by consequences / probabilistic AB because
of C. How do things come to be and how can they be changed.
29. RESPONDENT BEHAVIOR/RESPONDENTCONDITIONING Answer- Elicited, involuntary, Habituation, Pavlov
US = UR = NS = CR= CS
30. REFLEX Answer- Eliciting stimulus (US) and the behavior it produces (UR) that is part of the genetic makeup
of the individual
31. HABITUATION Answer- When the eliciting stimuli is presented repeatedly - the strength of the respondent
bx diminishes
32. PHYLOGENY Answer- Behavior that is inherited
33. OPERANT BEHAVIOR/OPERANT CONTINGENCY Answer- Emit/Evoke - Any behavior whose probability of
