Dana Do’s: How to Optimize Memorization
PTB founder Dana Meller reinforces the importance of memorization and offers some practical, empirically validated tips for memorizing the TCO.
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Test your Verbal Behavior Terminology ➠ Point-to-Point Correspondence vs. Formal Similarity
PTB co-founder Dana Meller clarifies the concepts, providing examples to help better understand these crucial distinctions and addresses common misconceptions between point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-14: Define and provide examples of the verbal operants.
The Ultimate Reinforcement Schedules Showdown ➠ FT/VT vs. FI/VI
PTB founder Dana Meller delves into the differences and nuances between fixed-time (FT) and variable-time (VT) schedules, as well as fixed-interval (FI) and variable-interval (VI) schedules.
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Antecedent Intervention ➠ Increasing Compliance with the Art of Timing
PTB co-founder Dana Meller discusses the high-probability request sequence (high-p). Learn how the high-p serves as an effective antecedent intervention and compliance-building strategy.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections G-2: Use interventions based on motivating operations and discriminative stimuli; and G-13: Use the high-probability instructional sequence.
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Dana Do’s: Get Your M.A.C. Skills Together
PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers a key to building fluency and BCBA® exam readiness. Memorization. Application. Comprehension.
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Breaking Down a Mock BCBA® Exam Question: The Best Example of a Behavior
Test your concepts and principles knowledge. PTB founder Dana Meller reviews a BCBA® mock exam question about identifying the best example of a behavior. Included is a detailed breakdown of various options that could be helpful when approaching this type of question on the big ABA exam.
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Coffee Quandary: Stimulus Control & Absence of Reinforcement in the Pursuit of Hydration
PTB co-founder Dana Meller discusses the concept of stimulus control, explaining the function of the Sᴰ.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-10: Define and provide examples of stimulus control.
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Test your ABA Terminology ➠ Operant vs. Respondent Extinction
PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains the differences between operant and respondent extinction procedures and how these procedures reduce challenging behaviors and diminish reflex responses in behavior management and conditioning.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.
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Test your ABA Terminology ➠ Identify the Type of Conditioned Reinforcer in This Scenario
PTB co-founder Dana Meller reviews a specific type of conditioned reinforcer. Included is a description of generalized conditioned reinforcers and corresponding examples. Additionally, Dana shares a good rule of thumb for your exam about which stimuli are always identified as generalized conditioned reinforcers.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-3: Establish and use conditioned reinforcers.
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Dana Do’s: Dealing with the Frustration of Failing the BCBA® Exam
PTB founder Dana Meller offers some unsolicited advice for candidates who have experienced the frustration of failing the BCBA® exam by only a few points.
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