Technical definition, clinical ABA application, discriminative non-examples, and test-day traps for behavior analysis candidates.
The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior, and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change.
A clinical team designs an individualized communication system for a non-vocal teenager, measuring requesting accuracy across three community environments.
Explaining a child's tantrum by attributing it to an 'inner lack of willpower' or 'hidden subconscious anger' (mentalism and explanatory fictions).
ABA is characterized by the 7 dimensions defined by Baer, Wolf, & Risley (1968): Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, and Generality.
A behavior analyst writes a behavior intervention plan with such explicit, operational detail that any trained behavior technician can implement it with high fidelity. Which dimension of ABA is demonstrated?
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