BCBA ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY A GRADED.REVISED

BCBA ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY A GRADED.REVISED What are the common attitudes and assumptions of science? determinism, empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, and philosophic doubt Explain the difference between EAB and ABA EAB involves basic research, reporting only on basic behavior experiments whose primary goal is to discover and clarify the basic principles of behavior and determine functional relations between behavior and controlling variables. ABA involves applied research and has the goal of creating a technology for improving socially significant behavior and to determine functional relations between socially significant behavior and controlling variables. Describe the methodological features of EAB rate of response is the most common dependent variable; repeated or continuous measurement is made of carefully defined response classes; within-subject experimental comparisons are used instead of group designs; visual analysis of graphed data is preferred over statistical inference; a description of functional relations is valued over formal theory testing. 5 functions/phases of behavioral assessment a) screening, b) defining and quantifying problems or goals, c) pinpointing the target behavior(s), d) monitoring progress, e) following up