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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Why should you look at the world behavior analytically? Because it will help you build ABA fluency.
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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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PTB cofounder, Dana Meller treats the task list like a puzzle, and so should you. Like a puzzle, all the task list items are interconnected. To be exam ready, you need all the pieces, and every piece needs to be in place.
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PTB Co-founder Dana Meller reinforces the importance of memorization and offers some practical, empirically validated tips for memorizing the task list.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares helpful tips about incorporating studying into your already busy lives.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller talks about measuring exam readiness. How do you know if you’re ready to sit?
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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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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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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.