BCBA Exam Section A Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
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BCBA Exam Section A Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Four branches of behavior analysis - Answer️️ -behaviorism,
experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, professional
practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
BACB's definition of ABA - Answer️️ ...
BCBA Exam Section A Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
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
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
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