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BCBA EXAM SECTION A QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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BCBA EXAM SECTION A QUESTIONSAND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Four branches of behavior analysis - ANSWER behaviorism, experimental analysis of behavior, applied
behavior analysis, professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
BACB's definition of ABA - ANSWER a science based on the use of learning principles to improve socially
important behavior.
What does the BACB state ABA focuses on? - ANSWER assessing the environmental influences of
behavior, assessment-based intervention, and data based decision making.
Science definition - ANSWER an organized approach for collecting knowledge and understanding about
the natural world
Purposes of science - ANSWER to find truths in nature, which are universally understood and
independent of any group's beliefs or opinions, and to understand the subject that is being studied
1. Description
2. Prediction
3. Control - ANSWER 3 Levels of Scientific Understanding
Description - ANSWER facts that are derived from systematically observed events, that can be quantified
and classified to help us test for possible relationships, and that can help us identify a hypothesis for
further exploration.
Correlation, Covariation - ANSWER Prediction AKAs
Prediction - ANSWER when repeat observations show that there is a consistent relationship between the
occurrence of two events
False - ANSWER True/False: Prediction=Cause
, Control - ANSWER a functional relation is established when science confirms what has been predicted
(an experimental demonstration has been conducted)
lowest: Description, Mid: prediction, highest: control - ANSWER Order of three levels of scientific
understanding
Causation - ANSWER Control AKA
Philosophical assumptions of ABA - ANSWER determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism,
selections
Determinism - ANSWER what science is based on, believes the world is an orderly, predictable, lawful
place, where everything falls into a cause/effect or if/then condition
assumption that everything happens because of other events - ANSWER Determinism key point
Empricism - ANSWER upon what knowledge is built, uses objective observations and measurements,
requires objective quantification and detailed descriptions of events
experimental and data based scientific approach - ANSWER Empiricism key point
relies on the simplest theory with the fewest assumptions - ANSWER Parsimony key point
Parsimony - ANSWER before considering more complex explanations, you must first rule out the simplest
and most logical explanations
Behavioral, Applied, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Analytic, Generality, Effective - ANSWER
Seven Dimensions of ABA
a behavior must be in need of improvement, measurable, and you must ask whose behavior has
changed (consider the reliability of the observer) - ANSWER Behavioral 3 main positions
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