Dana Do’s

By examining BACB Task List verbs, you can actually determine the specific type of discrimination required in your BCBA exam studies.

Dana Do’s: Yes, verbs are clues that can help you prep for the BCBA exam

PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares how the verbs used in the Task List can provide you with significant clues for effective studying. By examining task list verbs, you can actually determine the specific type of discrimination required in your studies. Learn how understanding these verbs can guide your preparation and better equip you for success on the big exam.

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Advice for when you're stuck prepping for the BCBA® exam.

Dana Do’s: How to Get Unstuck When Studying for the BCBA®

PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains how to use Multiple Exemplar training to improve your exam application skills.

BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section: G-21 Use procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization.

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Response Blocking vs. Extinction. BACB Task List Section G-16: Use positive and negative punishment (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection).

Dana Do’s: Response Blocking vs. Extinction

Want an easy way to make the correct discrimination between response blocking and extinction? PTB co-founder Dana Meller borrows from the #starwars universe to help explain.

BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section: G-16 Use positive and negative punishment (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection).

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Understanding Operant and Respondent Conditioning

Dana’s Do’s: Conditioning Us to Understand Operant and Respondent Conditioning?

PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains how one word can describe two different things. Here’s how to practically understand the difference between operant and respondent conditioning.

BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.

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Dana Do’s: Need a Prompt to Understand Prompting?

PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares a trick for discriminating between response and stimulus prompts.

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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Dana’s Do’s: WWSD (What Would #Skinner Do?) on Tax Day?

PTB co-founder Dana Meller illustrates a perfect example of rule-governed behavior centered on our shared and dreaded annual Tax Day obligation.

BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-13: Define and provide examples of rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior.

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Dana Do’s: How to Decode the Code

PTB co-founder Dana Meller suggests that memorizing the sections of the BACB® Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts will in fact help you make correct discriminations when prepping for the BCBA® exam.

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Dana Do’s: 1-Minute Experimental Design Test Hack (you still have to study it though)

PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares a huge secret to help break down experimental design questions.

BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section D-3: Identify the defining features of single-subject experimental designs.

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Dana Do’s: Why BCBA® Retaker Odds are Lower

There’s a danger of studying only the score report. PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers insight on why it’s important to study like a test virgin.

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Dana Do’s: That Feeling of Freaking Out Over the BCBA® Exam

Everyone feels like they won’t pass the BCBA® exam, not just you. PTB co-founder Dana Meller talks about the experiences her students share as they prep for the exam. And surprise surprise, you are not alone in feeling scared, dealing with the pressures of everyday life, and trying to negotiate so many variables. If that’s you and you’re struggling, the good news is that it’s temporary. And the payoff, that is fantastic.

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