ABA Midterm Study Quiz

What are the goals of ABA?

• Improve socially significant behavior

• Identify functional relations between behavior and controlling variable

• Both A and B

• None of the above

What is the first level of scientific understanding in ABA?

• Description

• Prediction

• Control

• Behaviorism

Which of the following is a determining factor of social validity?

• Assessing social significance

• Broad social goal

• Categories of related behavior

• All of the above

Who is known as the father of behaviorism?

• B.F. Skinner

• John B. Watson

• Ivan Pavlov

• Albert Bandura

What is the second level of scientific understanding in ABA?

• Description

• Prediction

• Control

• Behaviorism

What is the third level of scientific understanding in ABA?

• Description

• Prediction

• Control

• Behaviorism

Which of the following is NOT a dimension of ABA?

• Applied

• Behavioral

• Contextualism

• Experimental control

What is the process by which behaviors are selected to continue or cease based on experience?

• Phylogenic

• Ontogenic

• Cultural

• Selectionism

What is the process of withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior?

• Reinforcement

• Punishment

• Extinction

• Discriminative stimulus

What is the relation between a stimulus and response when the stimulus sets the occasion on which the response will likely have a consequence?

• Stimulus control

• Functional behavior assessment

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable