Seven Dimensions of ABA

Question 1

Applied

Answer 1

• ABA Improves the everyday life of clients.
• Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the participant(s) in settings of concern.
• Helps significant others (e.g. parents, teachers, peers, employers) so they behave more positively toward the client.
• Socially important outcomes.

Question 2

Behavioral

Answer 2

• Behavior must be measurable and observable events.
• The behavior one chooses must be the behavior in need of improvement.
• Important to note whose behavior has changed (client’s behavior)
• Focusing on observable behavior.

Question 3

Analytic

Answer 3

• Demonstrated experimental control over the occurrence and non-occurrence of the behavior (a functional relation is determined).
• Functional and replicable relationships.
• Functional relationships between independent and dependent variables.
• Clearly and empirically verifies the functional relationships related to problem behaviors.

Question 4

Technological

Answer 4

• Written description of all procedures in the study is sufficiently complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it.
• Clearly defined procedures.
• All operative procedures are identified and described in detail and clarity.
• Replicable technology.

Question 5

Conceptually Systematic

Answer 5

• Behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior.
• To better enable research consumer to derive other similar procedures from the same principle(s).
• Assist in integrating discipline into a system instead of a “collection of tricks.”
• Researchers and practitioners should articulate principles related to change efforts.
• Interventions used are rooted in ABA principles.

Question 6

Effective

Answer 6

• Improved behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the participant(s)
• Improvements in behavior must reach clinical or social significance.
• Extent to which change in the target behavior(s) result in noticeable changes.
• Large effects that have practical value.

Question 7

Generality/Generalization

Answer 7

• Produces behavior changes that last over time.
• Appear in other environments (other than the one in which intervention was implemented).
• Or spread to other behaviors (those not directly treated by the intervention.
• Behaviors occur across many settings.
• Able to exhibit the behavior in different settings and with different people independently or with very minimal prompting.