Dana Do’s: What Would Cooper Do?
PTB co-founder offers a new approach to reframing your mindset when answering questions on the BCBA® exam that may help you beat the odds.
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BxLog is PTB’s exam prep blog, edited and curated by veteran ABA professionals with a mission to provide candidates helpful tools and guidance along their BCBA® exam prep journey. Explore short videos and articles containing valuable information including explanations of Test Content Outline concepts and ABA terminology, study tips, mock exam questions with answer breakdowns, and lifestyle advice to maintain a healthy exam prep regimen.
5 Reasons You Need a Mock Exam Before the Big Day
When it comes to devising a study plan for the BCBA® exam, there’s no “one size fits all” strategy. Different learning styles require different techniques, and it’s important to study
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Dana Do’s: Attention Multiple BCBA® Retakers (You are Going to Want to Hear This)
The data shows candidates struggle to pass the BCBA® exam on later attempts. PTB co-founder Dana Meller takes a deeper look at the data and offers a strategy for beating the retaker odds.
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Dana Do’s: What’s the Difference Between Pragmatism and Determinism?
PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers a relatable cause-and-effect scenario that helps discriminate between determinism and pragmatism.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section A-2: Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).
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Dana Do’s: How to Define the Markers of Trustworthy Measurement
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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Dana Do’s: The Scientific Goals of Behavior Analysis
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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A Black Behaviorist & A White Behaviorist Walk into a (fill in the blank)
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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From PTB’s Test (Prep) Kitchens: A Brain-Boosting Berry Smoothie
It’s important to fuel your brain and body with nutritious food that will give you the energy to power through long days and even longer study sessions. But, between school,
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Dana Do’s: Which Group Contingency Do I Use?
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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Dana Do’s: Relating, Framing and Equating
Relating, framing and equating. PTB co-founder Dana Meller drills into the generalizability of relational frame theory, equivalence-based instruction, and stimulus equivalence. Would you believe they all go together?
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections B-15: Define and provide examples of derived stimulus relations; G-21: Use procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization; G-12: Use equivalence-based instruction.
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