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.
PTB founder Dana Meller clarifies confusion to explain derived stimulus relation vs. stimulus equivalence.
Dana Do’s: Clarifying Confusion Between Derived Stimulus Relation and Stimulus Equivalence Read More
How do you determine the relative preference of tested stimuli during trial-based preference assessments? PTB Founder Dana Meller breaks it down.
Dana Do’s: How to Determine Preference of Tested Stimuli Read More
Shaping and chaining are strategies for teaching complex behaviors that are often confused. PTB founder Dana Meller makes the differences clear.
Dana Do’s: Clearing Up the Confusion Over Shaping and Chaining in ABA Read More
You know how the textbooks say that there are two parts to differential reinforcement, one being reinforcement for the desired behavior and the other extinction for the target behavior? Applying
Dana Do’s: Fun Fact About Using DRA Read More
Social significance is such a buzzword ABA. PTB founder Dana Meller breaks down all the different areas in which social significance is important.
Dana Do’s: Socially Significant Information Read More
What’s the difference between parametric, component, and comparative analyses? And what do experimental designs have to do with it? PTB founder Dana Meller clears up the confusion with a deep dive into analysis variations.
Dana Do’s: The Distinction Between Analysis Types and Experimental Designs Read More
PTB founder Dana Meller has advice and tips for the best last-minute study methods.
Dana’s Do’s: The Best Methods for Last-Minute Exam Prep Read More
With the 6th Edition transition weeks away, many BCBA®/BCaBA® exam candidates are uncertain about how to best prepare. PTB founder Dana Meller is here with advice on how 5th Ed. students can plan to Beat the Odds and navigate the new 6th Ed. Test Content Outline (TCO).
Dana Do’s: How to Prepare for the Transition to the BACB® 6th Edition Test Content Outline Read More
It’s all too easy to mix up continuous and discontinuous measurement procedures. Need some help discriminating between the two? Get clarity with help from PTB founder Dana Meller.
Dana Do’s: What’s the Difference Between Continuous and Discontinuous Measurement? Read More
There are (unfortunately) only 24 hours in a day– and that goes for everyone, including Beyoncé. For BCBA® exam candidates, time management is the name of the game right now.
Perfect Timing: More Tips for Better Time Management Read More