Dana Do’s: Looking at the World Behavior Analytically
Why should you look at the world behavior analytically? Because it will help you build ABA fluency.
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Dana Do’s: Importance of Experimental Design Fluency
PTB co-founder Dana Meller talks about the importance of being fluent in experimental designs, not just to pass the exam, but to be a good clinician as well.
Ref Section D-3: Identify the defining features of single-subject experimental designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication).
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Dana Do’s: Imagine the Test Content Outline is a Jigsaw Puzzle
PTB founder, Dana Meller treats the Test Content Outline like a puzzle, and so should you. All the domain items are interconnected. To be exam ready, you need all the pieces, and every piece needs to be in place.
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Dana Do’s: How to Make Time for Studying for the BCBA® Exam
PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares helpful tips about incorporating studying into your already busy lives.
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Dana Do’s: How to Know When You’re Ready to Sit for the BCBA® Exam
PTB founder Dana Meller talks about measuring exam readiness. How do you know if you’re ready to sit?
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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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Dana Do’s: How to Easily Break Down the 7 Dimensions of ABA
PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares an easy way to break down the 7 dimensions of ABA by using the dimensions to define what it means to be a behavior analyst, which in turn, makes it much easier to discriminate between each dimension.
BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section A-5: Describe and define the dimensions of applied behavior analysis (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968).
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Dana Do’s: How to Discriminate Dependent vs. Independent Variables If You’re Not a Researcher
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.
Dana Do’s: How to Discriminate Between SDs & MOs
PTB co-founder Dana Meller breaks down the distinction between motivating operations (MOs) and discriminative stimulus (SDs).
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections B-10: Define and provide examples of stimulus control; and B-12: Define and provide examples of motivating operations.
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Dana Do’s: How to Decode the BACB® Ethics Code on Exam Questions
PTB 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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