If all prompts prompt behavior, how can you tell the different between stimulus and response prompts? PTB co-founder Dana Meller simplifies it with one word.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-4: Use stimulus and response prompts and fading (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most, prompt delay, stimulus fading).
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Self-management: one process, two behaviors. PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains controlled vs controlling response, and shares real-life examples of how they are used together in self-management strategies.
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It often feels like the board is asking candidates to study concepts you may never use in practice. PTB founder Dana Meller explains why that’s actually inaccurate. The philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis is so much more integral than just passing the big exam.
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The concepts of punishment and reinforcement can sometimes confuse exam candidates. PTB co-founder Dana Meller clears things up, explaining nuances between the two and sharing her tips for making better discriminations on exam day.
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PTB co-founder goes into the three factors that define trustworthy measurement– “validity”, “reliability” and “accuracy”. But what’s the difference between each? Dana explains.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller takes on the first portion of the Task List with a quick lesson about section A-1. The secret sauce for understanding the goal of behavior analysis? It all comes down to description, prediction, and control.
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Originally live streamed as a CEU for Ethics on Behavior Live (Task List Section E: Behave in accordance with the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts) , “A Black Behaviorist and a White Behaviorist Walk into a (fill in the blank)“, is a discussion about race, intersectionality, and the importance of a partnership between black and white women.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller distills the three different interventions, related by the group.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-18: Use group contingencies.
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It’s particularly meaningful to be able to tell validity, social validity, internal, and external validity apart. PTB founder Dana Meller has some tips to do just that.
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Not a researcher? How about some help discriminating between dependent and independent variables. PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers a few tips to make that distinction on the BCBA® exam.