The Seven Dimensions of ABA

Question 1

Effecting improvements in behaviors that enhance and improve people’s lives.

Answer 1

Applied

Question 2

1) Target Behavior only
2) Must be measurable
3) Whose behavior changed

Answer 2

Behavioral

Question 3

When the experimenter has demonstrated a functional relation between the manipulated events and a reliable change in some measurable dimension of the targeted behavior. In other words, the experimenter must be able to control the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior.

Answer 3

Analytic

Question 4

When all of its operative procedures are identified and described with sufficient detail and clarity “such that a reader has a fair chance of replicating the application with the same results”

Answer 4

Technological

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Conceptually Systematic

Question 6

Must produce behavior changes that reach clinical or social significance.

Answer 6

Effective

Question 7

Lasts over time, appears in environments other than the one in which the intervention that initially produced it was implemented, and/or spreads to other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention.

Answer 7

Generality