7 Dimensions of ABA

Question 1

Applied

Answer 1

Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject

Question 2

Behavioral

Answer 2

Precise measurement of the behavior in need of improvement and documents that it was the subject’s behavior that changed

Question 3

Analytic

Answer 3

Demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and non occurrence of the behavior; demonstrates if there is a functional relation

Question 4

Technological

Answer 4

The written description of all procedures used in the study is sufficiently completed and detailed to enable others to replicate it

Question 5

Conceptually Systematic

Answer 5

Behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior

Question 6

Effective

Answer 6

Improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the participant/client

Question 7

Generality

Answer 7

Produces behavior changes that last over time, appear in other environments, or spread to other behaviors