EDF 6225 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED () (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

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Researchers began to apply principles of behavior in an effort to improve so
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cially important behavior - ANS ✓1960s
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Techniques for measuring behavior and controlling and manipulating varia
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bles were sometimes unavailable or inappropriate. Little funding was availa
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ble. No ready outlet for publishing studies. - ANS ✓1960s
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Formal beginning of contemporary applied behavior analysis. Application of
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principles were made. - ANS ✓1960s-1970s
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Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) began publication -
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First journal in united states to deal with applied problems and gave researc
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hers using methodology from the experimental analysis of behavior an outle
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t for publishing their findings. Flagship journal of ABA. -
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uANS ✓Journal of applied behavior analysis (JABA)
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Founding fathers of ABA - ANS ✓Baer, Wolf, and Risley 1960s-1970s
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Defined the criteria for judging adequacy of research and practice in ABA an
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d outlines the scope of work for those in the science. Most widely cited publi
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cation in ABA and remains standard description of the discipline. -
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ANS ✓"Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis" (Baer, Wolf, and Ri
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sley) 1960s-1970s u




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Characteristics of ABA - ANS ✓1. Applied u u u u u u




2. Behavioral
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3. Analytic
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4. Technological
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5. Conceptually Systematic
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6. Effective
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7. Generality
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Investigates socially significant behavior with immediate importance to the
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participants. Behaviors include: social, language, academic, daily living, self-
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care, vocational, recreation and/or leisure. - ANS ✓Applied
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Precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement and do
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cuments that it was the participant's behavior that changed. The behavior in
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need of improvement and it is a study of behavior (not about behavior). The
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behavior must be measurable and important to note whose behavior change
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d. - ANS ✓Behavioral
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Demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrenc
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e of the behavior (a functional relation is demonstrated) - ANS ✓Analytic
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A written description of all procedures in the study and is sufficiently compl
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ete and detailed to enable others to replicate it. All operative procedures are
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identified and described in detail and clarity. - ANS ✓Technological
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Behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavio
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r. Better enable research consumer to derive other similar procedures from
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the same principles. Assist in integrating discipline into a system instead of
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a "collection of tricks" - ANS ✓Conceptually systematic
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Improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the participa
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nts. Improvements in behavior must reach clinical or social significance beh
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