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BCABA BACB 5TH ED. TASK LIST EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
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BCABA BACB 5TH ED. TASK LIST EXAM2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
A-1 Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e., description,
prediction, control). - Precise Answer ✔✔1. Description: A collection of
facts about the observed event(s) that can be quantified, classified and
examined for possible similarities to other known facts. ("I know what
the behavior looks/sounds like.
2. Prediction: Repeated observations reveal that observing other events
can consistently result in accurately anticipating an outcome. ("I know
when the behavior will occur.
3. Control: A specific change in one event can be reliably produced by
scientific manipulation of another event. This change is not due to other
factors or variables. ("I can turn this behavior on and off like a faucet."
A-1 Description Example - Precise Answer ✔✔A parent comes to a
clinic and is interviewed by the lead BCBA® about their child's self-
injurious and aggressive behavior. The parent describes to the BCBA
that the aggressive behavior only occurs when the mother is interacting
with the other siblings in the home. The parent also describes that the
self-injurious behavior only occurs when the child is denied access to
highly preferred activities. The parent has provided the BCBA with a
description of the events that are associated with self-injurious and
aggressive behavior exhibited by the child.
,A-1 Prediction Example - Precise Answer ✔✔A client on the inpatient
unit engages in verbal aggressive behavior (e.g., screaming, cursing,
verbal threats) toward staff and other patients on the milieu. After
several days of observation, the nurse on the unit notices that each time
the client requests and is denied access to alcohol and cigarettes, they
engage in verbal aggression. The nurse predicts that each time the
patient is denied access to alcohol and cigarettes, they will engage in
verbal aggression.
A-1 Control Example - Precise Answer ✔✔A client in a residential
treatment facility engages in self-injurious behavior, and has been
referred for a functional analysis. During the analysis, the client does not
engage in self injury during the play (control), attention, or tangible
conditions. During the demand condition, however, the client engages in
self injury every time they are presented with a demand. Removing the
demand consistently results in termination of the self injurious behavior.
A-2: Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of
behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism,
parsimony, pragmatism) - Precise Answer ✔✔1. Selectionism: All life
forms naturally and continually evolve through their learning history and
evolutionary development. This happens at an individual level, and also
on a species level.
2. Determinism: Events that occur in the universe do not happen "out of
the blue." Instead, they occur in an orderly and predictable manner.
3. Empiricism: Objective observation of events in our environment,
using information from (and only from) one or more of our five senses.
,Empiricism rejects the option of accepting things as truth that are only
"known" through channels outside of our five senses (such as mystical
powers) or someone "feeling" a certain way and presenting that as
evidence for claims outside of their own experience.
4. Parsimony: Ruling out all simple, logical explanations before
considering more complex or abstract explanations. "The simplest
explanation should be the first explanation."
5. Pragmatism: The philosophical attitude that something has value, or is
true, to the extent that it leads to successful outcomes when practically
applied. ("Truth is an effective action."
A-3: Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical
behaviorism - Precise Answer ✔✔- A branch of behaviorism that
includes thoughts and feelings in addition to observable behavioral
events. Distinguished from methodological behaviorism.
- From a radical behaviorist's perspective, there is no meaningful
differences between public events (observable, measurable behaviors)
and private events (covert behaviors such as emotions and thoughts).
This has extremely profound implications.
A-3: Example of perspective of radical behaviorism - Precise Answer
✔✔Your client engages in intense ritual behaviors which include
wearing certain clothing items at certain times of the day. When you try
to interrupt the client's engagement in the ritual, they become extremely
aggressive toward you. A team member suggests that this behavior is
, caused by feelings of frustration. As a radical behaviorist, you do not
operate under the assumption that feelings cause behaviors. Rather,
feelings can make things in the environment more or less valuable.
A-4: behaviorism and an example - Precise Answer ✔✔- The
philosophy of the science of behavior. It emphasizes objective methods
of investigation and is rooted in the assumption that behavior results
from interactions between the environment and individual variables
(such as prior learning history
- Ex: You are teaching a client self-management strategies to help them
with their overeating behavior. You instruct them to remove all junk
food from their home, since you know that when the client sees junk
food, they are more likely to eat it. You also instruct your client to avoid
the junk food aisles at the grocery store and to only shop the perimeter
of the store since that is where the healthy options are. Behaviorism is at
work, since you are assisting the client with altering their environment to
reduce stimuli that occasion overeating behavior, while providing them
with alternative options to meet their goals.
A-4: Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) and an example -
Precise Answer ✔✔- The scientific study of behavior to study behavior
for its own sake.
- Ex: A researcher in a lab is studying the effects of various
reinforcement schedules using mice as subjects. The mice complete a
maze and receive food along the way. The researcher finds that mice
complete the maze faster when they used a variable ratio schedule of
reinforcement rather than a fixed interval schedule of reinforcement.
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