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1. Generality
2. Effective
3. Technological
4. Applied
5. Conceptually Systematic
6. Analytic
7. Behavioral |
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A BCBA works with several clients who were recently diagnosed with food allergies. The clients will begin eating restricted diets to address the allergies and the BCBA SUSPECTS the food restrictions might results in improvements in the client's target behaviors. The families agree to work with the BCBA to evaluate the indepenndent and combined effects of the diet and behaviors change programs using a multiple baseline across subject design. The BCBA is engaging in:
A. Practice Guided by Behavioral Analysis
B. Applied Behavioral Analysis
C. EAB |
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B. Applied Behavioral Analysis
Translate basic principles into widely applicable methods for improving social problems. |
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A child kicks the doctor after being jabbed in the shoulder with a hypodermic needle.
This response is:
A. Ontogenic
B, Phylogenic
C, Ellicited |
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A child kicks the doctor after being tapped in the knee with a patellar hammer? The response is?
A. Phylogenic
B.Emitted
C. Ontogenic |
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A. Phylogenic
Since this behavior of Reflex is inherited.
Cooper 27-33 |
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A child reports feeling lots of anxiety at school. After speaking with and observing the child, you determine that the child is very uncomfortable in social situations like lunch period and recess. You therefore decide to use behavioral skills training to role-play particular initiations and to measure any changes in the child's engagement with peers. Your approach most closely represents.
A. A mentalistic view of behavior
B. Radical Behaviorism
Methodological Behaviorism |
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C. Methodological Behaviorism.
Target social engagement directly, neither a hypothetical causal mechanism nor acknowledging private events. Acts as anxiety is everything. |
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A child reports feeling lots of anxiety at school. After speaking with and observing the child, you determine that the child is very uncomfortable in unstructured social situations like lunch period and recess. You therefore decide to shape and reinforce the social situations in which they practice positive self-statements that acknowledge nervous feelings while engaging in some tolerable approximation of social engagement. Your approach most closely represent.
A. Radical Behaviorism
B. A Mentalistic View of Behavior
C. Methodological Behaviorism, |
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A child reports feeling lots of anxiety at school. After speaking with and observing the child, you determine that the child is very uncomfortable in unstructured social situations like lunch periods and recess. You therefore decide to substantially increase descriptive praise and feedback for the child's other appropriate behavior in these settings, "catch them being good" in an effort to bolster their confidence in social situations. Your approach most closely represents:
A Radical Behaviorism
B. Mentalistic View of Behavior
C. Methodological behaviorism |
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A mentalistic view of behavior
Saying that behavior is engaged in due to lack of confidence or self-esteem. |
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A problem behavior that occurs during class is maintained by attention from a teacher.
Food Refusal occurs because of scar tissue in the esophagus that makes swallowing painful.
A high error rate with the subtraction problem is a function of incorrect borrowing.
These are examples of?
A. DETERMINISM
B. PARSIMONIOUS
C. SELECTIONISM |
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| Parsimonious Explamations |
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An intervention is supported by many peer-reviewed experiments published in non-behavioral journals. You initially were skeptical of the intervention because the outcomes are explained in terms that are inconsistent with operant principles. After you successfully implement the experimental procedures described in the literature within your setting, however, your confidence in the intervention grows. In this case, your revised opinion is a result of the attitude of science known as:
A. experimentation
B. Replication
C, Pragmatism
d. ALL of the above |
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Directly improving socially significant behavior through the application and measurement of behavioral technology is a goal.
B. Applied Behavioral Analysis
C. EAB
A. Practice Guided by Behavioral Analysis |
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| B. Practice Guided by Behavioral Analysis |
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Even though the research shows that DRO is an effective strategy for eliminating undesirable behaviors. It wasn't effective with Janine, therefore her BCBA chose a procedure that had better outcomes for Jamime.
A. selectionism
B. Determinism
C.Parsimony
D. Pragmatism |
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Fido runs to the door upon hearing the family car pull up to the house. Which explanations of Fido's/are mentalistic?
A. The dog's behavior is evoked by thinking its owner has arrived home
B. The dog's behavior is controlled by expectations of seeing its owner.
C. The dog antipirate is being reinforced.
D. All of the above. |
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From A deterministic perspective, variability in behavioral data is evidence of,
Cooper 4-5 |
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James is at school and frequently runs out of the classroom. The teacher explains this by saying, "James runs away from the classroom because he has not yet developed the intrinsic motivation for remaining in school." The term "intrinsic motivation" is an example of an"
A. Hypothetical Construct
B. Circular Reasoning
C. Environmental explanation
D. DIAGNOSTIC Explanation |
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John helped a young child learn to take a bath using behavioral principles. John did not use an established program to do this; rather, he created his intervention package using evidence-based treatments from in literature. John used a multiple-probe experimental design to research the impact of the evaluation on behavior. Which domain of behavior analysis does this best exemplify?"
A. Practice guided by behavior analysis
B. Behaviorism
C. Experimental Analysis of Behavior
D. Applied behavior analysis. |
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D. Applied behavior analysis.
in classroom
Translates basic principles into widely applicable methods for improving social problems. |
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John, a behavior analyst, accepts that people think and engage in other mental events. John's perspective is similar to:
A. Radical Behaviorism
B. Neither answer is correct
C. Both answers are correct
D. Methodological Behaviorism |
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C. Both answers are correct
Both radical and methodological behaviorism acknowledge the existence of mental events. Methodological behaviorists reject studying such phenomena. |
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Lyle screams when he can't drink soda. When asked why he does this, his mother says, "Lyle screams because it typically results in us giving him soda." In this example, the mother is using which type of explanation for her son's behavior?
A. Mentalistic Explanation
B.. Environmental Explanation
C. Diagnostic
D. Hypothetical Construct |
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| B. Environmental Explanation |
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Lyle screams when he can't drink soda. When asked why he does this, his mother says, "Lylie screams because he has oppositional defiant disorder. His mind works differently from ours." When asked how the mom knows her son has oppositional defiant disorder, she says, "Because he always screams when he can't get what he wants." In this example, the mother appears to be using:
A. Environmental Explanation
B. Mentalistic Explanation
C. Hypothetical Construct
C. Circular Reasoning |
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Lyle screams when he can't drink soda. When asked why he does this, his other says, "Lyle screams because he has oppositional defiant disorder. His mind just works differently from ours. In this example, the term mind is an
A. Hypothetical Construct
B. Circular Reasoning
C. Mentalistic Explanation
D. Environmental Explanation |
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Rob conducts a study following an ABAB design to measure if a DRA procedure would reduce the frequency of self-injurious behavior. Rob planned for an extraneous variable, and it was clear that his intervention produced a reduction in the behavior. Which level of scientific understanding did Rob demonstrate?
A. nONE
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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Control
Extraneous Variables controlled. |
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Rob conducts a study following an ABAB design to measure if a DRA procedure would reduce the frequency of self-injurious behavior. Self-injurious behavior was reduced during all three phases after the initial baseline. When the study ended, Rob discovered that the client started a medication change at the same time that the study began. Which level of scientific understanding did Rob demonstrate?
A. None
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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None
Did not control for extraneous variables |
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Rob conducts a study where he observes behavior and documents what "SELF-INJURIOUS Behavior" may commonly look like with individuals diagnosed with autism. Which level of scientific understanding did Rob achieve?
A.. Description
B.. Prediction
C.. Control |
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Standardized Test Scores for fourth graders in the district ranged from 75-135.
C. Control
B.Prediction
C. Description |
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| Three Levels Scientific understanding are |
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| Description, Prediction, and Control |
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Users who complete at least 85% of the modules are more likely to pass the exam.
A. Description
B. Control
C. Prediction |
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When 2 events consistently relate to each other, and this is demonstrated with a degree of probability, what level of
scientific understanding is achieved.
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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When special receptacles were installed next to trash bins at all home football games, trash collection fees dropped by 11% for the season.
A. Control
B. Prediction
C. description |
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When the teacher puts a large green placard on the board, the students earn points for raising their right hand to ask a question. When the placard is red, students earn points for raising their left hand. Alternating treatment data show that the conditions quickly become discriminative for when students raise their right or left hand will be reinforced. This vignette shows.
B. Applied Behavioral Analysis
C. EAB
A. Practice Guided by Behavioral Analysis |
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When the teacher wears a baseball cap all students will be called on when they raise their hands to answer a question. When the teacher has no hat on students, questions will not be addressed. Call outs will be ignored. Reversal data show that the students quickly demonstrate discriminative responding according to when asking questions will be extinguished or reinforced. This vignette closely shows.
A. Practice Guided by Behavioral Analysis
B. Applied Behavioral Analysis
C. EAB |
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| b. Applied Behavioral Analysis. |
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Which is the highest level of scientific understanding?
A. None
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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Which level of scientific understanding is possible to achieve when finding results using a dependent and independent variable in a well-constructed experiment?
a. None
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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Which level of scientific understanding provides information to form possible hypothesis?
A. All answers provided are correct?
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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Which level of scientific understanding provides the most basic understanding of human behavior?
A. Effective
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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Which of the following is a goal of behavior analysis as a science?
A. All answers provided are correct?
B. Description
C. Prediction
D. Control |
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| A. All answers provided are correct |
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| With Respect To Behavior, Mentalism |
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Halts Further Inquiry Into Behaviors' Causes,
Appeals to hypothetical events as their causes.
Establishes Antecedents as its primary cause. |
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| With Respect to behavior, Mentalism |
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Tends to halt further inquiry into the causes of behavior.
Appeals to hypothetical events
establish antecedents as causes. |
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Withdrawal design data indicate that when children get training, scores go up; when they don't, scores go down.
A. Prediction
B. Control
C. Description |
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Human Behavior is preceded by an antecedent; it does not occur by itself. What type of philosophical assumption is this?
A. Determinism
B. Parsimony
C. Pragmatism
D.Empirisicm |
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A. Determinism The World is an orderly place, predictable and lawful, where all events occur as a result of cause and effect. Everything happens for a reason. ABA. Environmental stimuli cause behavior.
Think: Everything has a cause. |
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"I drink five sodas a day" vs "I drink a lot of soda. "What type of philosophical assumption is this?
A. Determinism
B. Parsimony
C. Pragmatism
D.Empirisicm |
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D. Empiricism: Knowledge is built on objective observation and measurement (data). Reliance on a detailed description of events and objective quantification (measurement)
Think: Evidence-Based. |
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The infant cries when he is hungry because in the past crying has resulted in getting a bottle, vs. the infant cries because Mercury is in retrograde."What type of philosophical assumption is this?
A. Determinism
B. Parsimony
C. Pragmatism
D.Empirisicm |
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B. Parsimony: The simplest and already established theory requiring the fewest assumptions must be ruled out before considering more complex explanations:
Think: Explanations based on our science first. |
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Although the research indicates that a DRO is an effective strategy for eliminating undesirable behaviors, it wasn't effective with Janine; therefore, her BCBA chose a procedure with better outcomes for Janine. "What type of philosophical assumption is this?
A. Determinism
B. Parsimony
C. Pragmatism
D.Empirisicm |
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C. Pragmatism: What is discovered in research is only useful when there are practical and positive outcomes (effective for a client), relying on outcomes in an applied setting to verify the effectiveness of the procedure.
Think: If it works, don’t fix it. |
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Behavior that is followed by reinforcement is more likely to be maintained and to produce more sophisticated repertoires."What type of philosophical assumption is this?
A. Determinism
B. Parsimony
C. Pragmatism
D. Selectionism |
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D. Selectionism: The assumption that behavior evolves and is maintained by consequences (function)
Think: Selection by consequences. |
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A general education teacher implements an interdependent group contingency in her classroom that increases participation and decreases disruptive behavior.
A. Professional Practice Guided by the science of behavior analysis
B. Behaviorism
C. EAB
D. Radical Behaviorism |
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A. Professional Practice Guided By the Science of Behavior Analysis:
• Refers to individuals in various fields of work (not necessarily BCBA/BCaBA) implementing ABA procedures within their professions. |
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The statement, "Liat Doodles a lot because she has ADD," would be considered:
A. Circular Reasoning
B. Explanatory Fiction
C. Environmental
D. Hypothetical Construct |
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A. Circular reasoning is a logically flawed argument in which the proposed cause is a restatement of the effect, in different terms. When two statements refer to the same thing, one cannot also explain the other. For example, we might say someone is angry when they are speaking loudly and turning red. "Angry", in other words, is a term we use when we observe someone exhibit any number of physical acts and/or appearances.
The physical appearance is an effect, and "angry" is a label for the effect. It is circular reasoning to then argue that the person was speaking loudly because they were angry. The effect cannot be explained in terms of a label for the effect. To say that we are red in the face because we are angry is no kind of explanation
Occurs when the cause and effect are inferred from the same information. |
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Hazel cannot focus on anything complete assignments,and uses foul language because she is autistic. This statement is using what type of language?
A. Technical
B. Non-Technical
C. Abbreviation
D. Mentalistic |
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| D. Mentalistic: a broad term used in behavioral analysis for presumed explanations of behavior that primarily relate to cognitive, psychological, or neurological phenomena. One type of explanatory fiction is "mentalism," a term used by behavior analysts to denote any hypothetical account of behavior that ascribes causality to non-physiological processes or entities located within a person, typically in the mind (itself a hypothetical construct). A mentalistic view is represented by claims that behavior occurs as a result of such things as the subconscious, cognitive events, willpower, intelligence, etc |
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Which Philosophical assumption suggests that the value of a theory or approach is determined by its practical outcome or effects
A. Pragmatism
B. Determinism
C.Parsimony
D. Empiricism |
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A. Pragmatism
Pragmatism emphasizes that the truth or value of a concept is determined by its practical implications and successful application. |
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the behavioral activist ranted to the congress of Ufakea. "Instead of funding prisons, let's fund organizations that will rid of risk factors of engaging in crime and being imprisoned, such as poverty!!" The activist then shared the experimental research they conducted on ways to improve poverty using a functional approach in a small community and how it related to crime reduction. Which of the following domains of behavior analysis best describes what the behavioral activist was engaging in while conducting the experimental research?
A. Behaviorism
B.Experimental analysis of behavior
c. Applied behavior analysis
D. Practice guided by behavior analysis |
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Applied behavior analysis
Feedback
When researching behavioral techniques to modify socially valid behavior, applied behavior analysis is being conducted. In this study, the activist used function-based assessment and techniques to get rid of poverty related variables and tracked its impact overall on community behavior. EAB is conducted in more highly structured laboratory settings, behaviorism is the philosophy that the activist is spewing, and practice guided by BA is when you are using techniques that have already been experimentally validated to change socially valid behavior. |
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Janine was careless with her makeup brush and stabbed herself in the eye with it, adding some noticeable purple bruising around her eye. She's learned in the past that some concealer will do the trick to cover that up! Carefully, she adds some to the area, blends it in, and the bruising is no longer noticeable. Which of the following contingencies best describes what occurred to using concealer
APositive reinforcement - concealer was added
b.Negative reinforcement - the bruise was removed
c.Negative punishment - the bruise was removed
d. Positive punishment - the bruise was added |
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Negative reinforcement - the bruise was removed
Feedback
As a result of Janine using her concealer, the bruise was removed, making this a negative contingency. Since she has done this behavior in the past and continues to do it in her current situation, we can be sure that reinforcement has occurred. Note that the concealer was not produced by using the concealer, but was a stimulus that was required to engage in the behavior (use the concealer). |
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