BCBA 5th edition task list Complete study guide 2022

BCBA 5th edition task list

Description - is a collection of facts about an observed event.

Prediction - repeated observations reveal that observing other events can

consistently result in accurately anticipating an outcome

Control - a specific change in one event can be reliably produced by scientific

manipulation or variables.

Radical behaviorism - is a branch of behaviorism that includes thoughts and

feelings in addition to the observable events

Generality/Generalization - Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in

environment other than the environment which it was taught and spreads to

other behaviors not targeted by the intervention

Effective - behavior that changes in a practical manner that results in clinical or

social significance

Technological - all procedures of an intervention, data and results of an

experiment or study are cleared outlined in detail so they can be understood,

replicated and implemented by anyone

Applied - the commitment of effecting improvements in people's behaviors to

enhance their quality of life.

Conceptually systematic - all procedures used in practice should be related to the

basic behavioral principles of behavior analysis from which they were derived.

Analytic - when the experimenter has demonstrated a reliable change and

functional relation between the manipulated events of a target behavior.