BCBA exam-PASStheBIGABAEXAM 527 Questions with Complete Solutions
- levels of scientific understanding - Correct Answer DPC
Description Prediction Control Description - Correct Answer Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified
Prediction - Correct Answer AKA: correlation; covariation
- events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the other
Control - Correct Answer AKA: causation
Functional relation.The highest level of scientific understanding.Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV) results in another event (DV).
- attitudes of science
Philosophical assumptions of bx - Correct Answer DEER PP Determinism Empiricism Experimentation Replication Parimony 1 / 4
Philosophical Doubt Determinism - Correct Answer Cause & effect Lawfulness Orderly & predictable Empiricism - Correct Answer Facts Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation & experience.Requires objective qualification & detailed description of events.Experimentation - Correct Answer Basic strategy of most sciences.Requires manipulating variables to see effects on DV.Experiment to determine if one event caused another.Replication - Correct Answer Repeating experiments Parisomy - Correct Answer The simplest theory.All simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex explanations.Philosophical Doubt - Correct Answer Having healthy skepticism & a critical eye
- dimensions of ABA - Correct Answer BATCAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral 2 / 4
Applied Technological Conceptually Systematic Analytic Generality Effective Behavioral - Correct Answer Observable events.Must be a bx in need of improvement.Applied - Correct Answer Socially significant bxs Technological - Correct Answer Procedures clearly & precisely so they are replicable.
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Conceptually Systematic - Correct Answer Procedures should be based on principles of ABA Analytic - Correct Answer AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation A functional relation is demonstrated.
Generality - Correct Answer AKA: Generalization
Extends bx change across time, settings, or other bxs Effective - Correct Answer Improves bx in a practical manner Mentalism Terminology - Correct Answer Hypothetical Constructs Explanatory Fictions 3 / 4
Circular Reasoning
- Branches of Behavior Analysis - Correct Answer CASE
- types of bx - Correct Answer Respondent
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Conceptual Analysis of Behavior ABA Behavior Service Delivery Experimental Analysis of Bx (EAB)
Operant Respondent Bx - Correct Answer AKA: Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned, US-UR Elicited Involuntary Reflex Habituation Habituation - Correct Answer Eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly that respondent bx diminishes Phylogenic - Correct Answer Bx that is genetic Respondent conditioning - Correct Answer AKA: Classical Conditioning, Pavlovian Conditioning, S-S Pairing, CS-CR When new stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents.