BCBA Exam

Question 1

ABA

Answer 1

Scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those discoveries.

Question 2

Analytic

Answer 2

It means that everything we do and every intervention we use has years of data, research, and evidence behind it, proving objectively that it is effective in making the changes we want to see. While there may be some trial-and-error when finding out which data-driven intervention works best for your child, nothing is ever subjective or made up on the spot.

Question 3

Antecedent

Answer 3

An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.

Question 4

Applied

Answer 4

We focus on behaviors that are socially significant to the individual and their life. We target behaviors that matter to them and that will affect their lives in a positive way.

Question 5

Behavior

Answer 5

That portion of an organism’s interaction with its environment that involves movement of some part of the organism.

Question 6

Behavioral

Answer 6

We only target behaviors that can be seen and measured

Question 7

Behaviorism

Answer 7

philosophy of the science of behavior

Question 8

Conceptually Systematic

Answer 8

One of the dimensions of applied behavior analysis

Procedures for changing behaviors and any interpretations of how or why those procedures were effective should be described in terms of the relevant principle (s) from which they are derived.

Question 9

Concurrent Schedule of Reinforcement

Question 10

Conditioned Stimulus

Question 11

Consequence

Question 12

Contingency

Question 13

Contingency-Shaped Behavior

Question 14

Contingent

Question 15

Deprivation

Question 16

Determinism

Question 17

Discriminated Operant

Question 18

Discriminative Stimulus (Sd)

Question 19

Effective

Question 20

Empiricism

Question 21

Environment

Question 22

Experiment

Question 23

Experiment

Question 24

Explanatory Fiction

Question 24

Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Question 25

Functional Analysis

Question 26

Functional Relation

Question 27

Generalization

Question 28

Habituation

Question 29

Higher-Order Conditioning

Question 30

History of Reinforcement

Question 31

Hypothetical Construct

Question 32

Mentalism

Question 33

Methodological Behaviorism

Question 34

Neutral Stimulus

Question 35

Operant Behavior

Question 36

Operant Conditioning

Question 37

Parsimony

Question 38

Philosophical Doubt

Question 39

Pragmatism

Question 40

Radical Behaviorism

Question 40

Principle of Behavior

Question 41

Reflex

Question 42

Reinforcement

Question 43

Reinforcer

Question 44

Repertoire

Question 45

Replication

Question 46

Respondent Behavior

Question 47

Respondent Conditioning

Question 48

Respondent Extinction

Question 49

Response

Question 50

Response Class

Question 51

Response Cost

Question 52

Science

Question 53

Selectionism

Question 54

Stimulus Class

Question 55

Stimulus Control

Question 56

Technological

Question 57

Three Term Contingency