Which of the domains of behavior analysis is concerned with the development and validation of procedures to produce socially significant change in the real world?

A. EAB

B. ABA

C. Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis (ABA Practice)

D. Conceptual analysis of behavior 

Identify the characteristic of applied behavior analysis from the list below:

A. Deals with philosophical, theoretical, and other conceptual issues

B. Selection of response topographies based on how practical they are to measure and study

C. Use of direct observation and measurement of behavior and environmental events in controlled lab settings

D. Empirical identification of functional relations between behavior and environmental events in the natural world

After reading studies indicating that pigeons can demonstrate the generalization of a concept to novel pictures after reinforcement for discriminating between examples and non-examples of the concept, Andrea wants to know if human children would respond similarily. She identifies three clients at her agency who have this type of a skill as a target in their overall behavior plans, and sets up a multiple baseline design whereby she introduces this teaching procedure to one student at a time. This is an example of: 

A. Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis

B. Behaviorism

C. Applied behavior analysis

D. EAB

Which branch of behavior analysis strives to discover basic principles and processes of behavior in controlled lab conditions?

A. Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis (ABA Practice)

B. EAB

C. Applied behavior analysis

D. Conceptual analysis of behavior 

Moss runs a functional analysis experiment as follows: For 20 mins, she provides immediate social attention whenever Reeve hits himself with a fist-to-face contact ("Reeve, don't hit yourself!"). Then for the next 20 minutes, she gives no attention but remains on the other side of the room. She repeats this process and finds that Reeve tends to hit himself more during those 20-minute periods when she provides attention following his hits. Moss then repeats this experiment, but this time she has her assistant, Carrie, run the experiment. They get the same finding. This process most clearly represents which assumption of behavior analysis?

A. Scientific skepticism

B. parsimony

C. Empiricism

D. Critical analysis 

Instead of assuming that behavior is a symptom of an underlying issue, ABA focuses on behavior in its own right as a target for change, Behavior is directly observed and measured, usually, in the real-life environment. This describes which dimension of applied behavior analysis?

A. Applied

B. Behavioral

C. Technological

D. Conceptually systematic 

A behavior analyst works with a child who engages in high-frequency and long-duration tantrums at bedtime. Results of a functional assessment indicate that this behavior is likely escape maintained. Even though behavior analytic literature has indicated that the use of escape extinction would likely be effective in reducing the child's problem behavior, the parents have indicated that they would not be comfortable with implementing this intervention. the behavior analyst instead suggests the bedtime pass protocol because this reinforces and alternative response and has been shown to be effective even without the use of extinction. The selection of the bedtime pass instead of escape extinction is an example of which philosophic assumption underlying the science of behavior analysis?

A. Empiricism

B. Determinism

C. Selectionism

D. Pragmatism 

Science is concerned mainly with gathering and organizing information about the world by means of what?

A. Prediction and control of independent variables

B. Prediction, description and evaluation of dependent variables

C. Description and sometimes prediction

D. Description, prediction, and control 

BCBA Dante is providing in-home behavior support services to 6-year-old Janelle. Dante typically arrives at the house early in the morning and immediately begins his work session with Janelle. Janelle's mom has told Dante that whenever Janelle sees Dante's car pull into the driveway, she begins to engage in disruptive behavior by throwing objects and emitting high-pitched vocalizations. Whenever Janelle engages in this behavior during a work session, Dante decides to end the session to give her a break. From a radical behaviorism perspective, what is the best explanation for Janelle's disruptive behavior?

A. Janelle does not like to work with Dante so whenever she sees his car arriving in the driveway she warns her parents by engaging in disruptive behavior. 

B. The sight of Dante's car has become a conditioned aversive stimulus and so Janelle engages in disruptive behavior in the past it has resulted in escape from work.

C. The sight of Dante's car makes Janelle feel upset and so she begins to engage in disruptive behavior to avoid the upcoming work session with Dante. 

D. Janelle finds the work session with Dante so aversive so when she anticipates the work session she decides to engage in disruptive behavior to avoid more work. 

In ABA, procedures are linked to, and described in terms of the basic principles of behavior. This describes what dimension of applied behavior analysis?

A. Conceptually systematic

B. Applied

C. Behavioral

D. technological