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BehavioralAnalysis

+"BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)"
+"The BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.; TCO) describes the content that will appear on the BCBA® certification examination beginning in"
+"2025. The TCO represents the knowledge and skills identified as being important for entry-level BCBA practitioners by the most recent"
+"job task analysis (see the February 2022 BACB Newsletter). The BCBA examination includes 175 scored questions and 10 unscored pilot"
+"questions. The TCO includes 104 tasks organized in 9 domains as follows:"
+""
+"Domain                       # of Questions (% of Exam)"
+"A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations                       8 (5%)"
+"B. Concepts and Principles                                        24 (14%)"
+"C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation                  21 (12%)"
+"D. Experimental Design                                             13 (7%)"
+"E. Ethical and Professional Issues                                22 (13%)"
+"F. Behavior Assessment                                            23 (13%)"
+"G. Behavior-Change Procedures                                     25 (14%)"
+"H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions                       20 (11%)"
+"I. Personnel Supervision and Management                           19 (11%)"
+"Total Questions                                                     175"
+""
+"Domain                                                                                                                               # of Questions"
+""
+""
+"A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations                                                                                                         8"
+"A.1.    Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e.,              A.3.   Explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism."
+"description, prediction, control).                                       A.4.   Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of"
+"A.2.    Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the                            behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice"
+"science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism,                  guided by the science of behavior analysis."
+"empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).                                      A.5.   Identify and describe dimensions of applied behavior analysis."
+""
+""
+"B. Concepts and Principles                                                                                                                         24"
+"B.1.    Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and                   B.12. Identify examples of stimulus control."
+"response class.                                                          B.13. Identify examples of stimulus discrimination."
+"B.2.    Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class.            B.14. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and"
+"B.3.    Identify and distinguish between respondent and                                response generalization."
+"operant conditioning.                                                    B.15. Identify examples of response maintenance."
+"B.4.    Identify and distinguish between positive and negative                   B.16. Identify examples of motivating operations."
+"reinforcement contingencies."
+"B.17. Distinguish between motivating operations and stimulus control."
+"B.5.    Identify and distinguish between positive and negative"
+"B.18. Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and"
+"punishment contingencies."
+"contingency-shaped behavior."
+"B.6.    Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially"
+"B.19. Identify and distinguish among verbal operants."
+"mediated contingencies."
+"B.20. Identify the role of multiple control in verbal behavior."
+"B.7.    Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned,"
+"and generalized reinforcers.                                             B.21. Identify examples of processes that promote emergent"
+"relations and generative performance."
+"B.8.    Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned,"
+"and generalized punishers.                                               B.22. Identify ways behavioral momentum can be used to"
+"understand response persistence."
+"B.9.    Identify and distinguish among simple schedules"
+"of reinforcement.                                                        B.23. Identify ways the matching law can be used to interpret"
+"response allocation."
+"B.10. Identify and distinguish among concurrent, multiple, mixed,"
+"and chained schedules of reinforcement.                                    B.24. Identify and distinguish between imitation and"
+"observational learning."
+"B.11. Identify and distinguish between operant and respondent"
+"extinction as operations and processes."
+"This document should be referenced as:"
+"Behavior Analyst Certification Board. (2022). BCBA test content outline (6th ed.)."
+"Updated 09/2024, Copyright © 2022, BACB® | All rights reserved.                                 https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/bcba-outline-6thEd/"
+"C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation                                                                                                               21"
+"C.1.    Create operational definitions of behavior.                          C.8.   Evaluate the validity and reliability of"
+"C.2.    Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures                    measurement procedures."
+"of behavior.                                                         C.9.   Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative"
+"C.3.    Measure occurrence.                                                         data that accounts for the critical dimension of the behavior"
+"and environmental constraints."
+"C.4.    Measure temporal dimensions of behavior (e.g., duration,"
+"latency, interresponse time).                                        C.10. Graph data to communicate relevant quantitative relations"
+"(e.g., equal-interval graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records)."
+"C.5.    Distinguish between continuous and discontinuous"
+"measurement procedures.                                              C.11. Interpret graphed data."
+"C.6.    Design and apply discontinuous measurement procedures                C.12. Select a measurement procedure to obtain"
+"(e.g., interval recording, time sampling).                                 representative procedural integrity data that accounts"
+"for relevant dimensions (e.g., accuracy, dosage) and"
+"C.7.    Measure efficiency (e.g., trials to criterion, cost-benefit"
+"environmental constraints."
+"analysis, training duration)."
+""
+""
+"D. Experimental Design                                                                                                                                         13"
+"D.1.    Distinguish between dependent and independent variables.             D.6.   Critique and interpret data from single-case"
+"D.2.    Distinguish between internal and external validity.                         experimental designs."
+"D.3.    Identify threats to internal validity (e.g., history, maturation).   D.7.   Distinguish among reversal, multiple-baseline, multielement,"
+"and changing-criterion designs."
+"D.4.    Identify the defining features of single-case experimental"
+"designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls,              D.8.   Identify rationales for conducting comparative, component,"
+"repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication).                  and parametric analyses."
+"D.5.    Identify the relative strengths of single-case experimental          D.9.   Apply single-case experimental designs."
+"designs and group designs."
+""
+""
+"E. Ethical and Professional Issues                                                                                                                             22"
+"E.1.    Identify and apply core principles underlying the ethics codes       E.7.   Identify types of and risks associated with multiple"
+"for BACB certificants (e.g., benefit others; treat others with              relationships, and how to mitigate those risks when they"
+"compassion, dignity, and respect; behave with integrity).                   are unavoidable."
+"E.2.    Identify the risks to oneself, others, and the profession as a       E.8.   Identify and apply interpersonal and other skills"
+"result of engaging in unethical behavior.                                   (e.g., accepting feedback, listening actively, seeking"
+"E.3.    Develop and maintain competence by engaging in                              input, collaborating) to establish and maintain"
+"professional development activities (e.g., read literature, seek            professional relationships."
+"consultation, establish mentors).                                    E.9.   Engage in cultural humility in service delivery and"
+"E.4.    Identify and comply with requirements for collecting, using,                professional relationships."
+"protecting, and disclosing confidential information.                 E.10. Apply culturally responsive and inclusive service and"
+"E.5.    Identify and comply with requirements for making public                    supervision activities."
+"statements about professional activities (e.g., social media         E.11. Identify personal biases and how they might interfere with"
+"activity; misrepresentation of professional credentials,                   professional activity."
+"behavior analysis, and service outcomes).                            E.12. Identify and apply the legal, regulatory, and practice"
+"E.6.    Identify the conditions under which services or supervision                requirements (e.g., licensure, jurisprudence, funding,"
+"should be discontinued and apply steps that should                         certification) relevant to the delivery of behavior-"
+"be taken when transitioning clients and supervisees to                     analytic services."
+"another professional."
+""
+""
+"F. Behavior Assessment                                                                                                                                         23"
+"F.1.    Identify relevant sources of information in records (e.g.,           F.5.   Design and evaluate descriptive assessments."
+"educational, medical, historical) at the outset of the case.         F.6.   Design and evaluate functional analyses."
+"F.2.    Identify and integrate relevant cultural variables in the            F.7.   Interpret assessment data to determine the need for"
+"assessment process.                                                         behavior-analytic services and/or referral to others."
+"F.3.    Design and evaluate assessments of relevant skill strengths          F.8.   Interpret assessment data to identify and prioritize socially"
+"and areas of need.                                                          significant, client-informed, and culturally responsive"
+"F.4.    Design and evaluate preference assessments.                                 behavior-change procedures and goals."
+""
+""
+""
+"Updated 09/2024, Copyright © 2022, BACB® | All rights reserved.                        Behavior Analyst Certification Board | BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.) | 2"
+"G. Behavior-Change Procedures                                                                                                                                25"
+"G.1.    Design and evaluate positive and negative                          G.10. Design and evaluate instructions and rules."
+"reinforcement procedures.                                          G.11. Shape dimensions of behavior."
+"G.2.    Design and evaluate differential reinforcement (e.g., DRA,         G.12. Select and implement chaining procedures."
+"DRO, DRL, DRH) procedures with and without extinction."
+"G.13. Design and evaluate trial-based and free-"
+"G.3.    Design and evaluate time-based reinforcement (e.g., fixed-               operant procedures."
+"time) schedules."
+"G.14. Design and evaluate group contingencies."
+"G.4.    Identify procedures to establish and use conditioned"
+"G.15. Design and evaluate procedures to promote stimulus and"
+"reinforcers (e.g., token economies)."
+"response generalization."
+"G.5.    Incorporate motivating operations and discriminative stimuli"
+"G.16. Design and evaluate procedures to maintain desired"
+"into behavior-change procedures."
+"behavior change following intervention (e.g., schedule"
+"G.6.    Design and evaluate procedures to produce simple and                     thinning, transferring to naturally occurring reinforcers)."
+"conditional discriminations."
+"G.17. Design and evaluate positive and negative punishment (e.g.,"
+"G.7.    Select and evaluate stimulus and response prompting                      time-out, response cost, overcorrection)."
+"procedures (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most)."
+"G.18. Evaluate emotional and elicited effects of behavior-"
+"G.8.    Design and implement procedures to fade stimulus and                     change procedures."
+"response prompts (e.g., prompt delay, stimulus fading)."
+"G.19. Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent"
+"G.9.    Design and evaluate modeling procedures.                                 relations and generative performance."
+""
+""
+"H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions                                                                                                                  20"
+"H.1.    Develop intervention goals in observable and                       H.4.   Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible unwanted effects when"
+"measurable terms.                                                         using reinforcement, extinction, and punishment procedures."
+"H.2.    Identify and recommend interventions based on assessment           H.5.   Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible relapse of the"
+"results, scientific evidence, client preferences, and contextual          target behavior."
+"fit (e.g., expertise required for implementation, cultural         H.6.   Make data-based decisions about procedural integrity."
+"variables, environmental resources)."
+"H.7.   Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of the"
+"H.3.    Select socially valid alternative behavior to be established or           intervention and the need for modification."
+"increased when a target behavior is to be decreased."
+"H.8.   Collaborate with others to support and enhance client services."
+""
+""
+"I. Personnel Supervision and Management                                                                                                                      19"
+"I.1.    Identify the benefits of using behavior-analytic supervision       I.4.   Select supervision goals based on an assessment of the"
+"(e.g., improved client outcomes, improved staff performance               supervisee’s skills, cultural variables, and the environment."
+"and retention).                                                    I.5.   Identify and apply empirically validated and culturally"
+"I.2.    Identify and apply strategies for establishing effective                  responsive performance management procedures (e.g.,"
+"supervisory relationships (e.g., executing supervisor-                    modeling, practice, feedback, reinforcement, task clarification,"
+"supervisee contracts, establishing clear expectations, giving             manipulation of response effort)."
+"and accepting feedback).                                           I.6.   Apply a function-based approach (e.g., performance"
+"I.3.    Identify and implement methods that promote equity in                     diagnostics) to assess and improve supervisee behavior."
+"supervision practices.                                             I.7.   Make data-based decisions about the efficacy of"
+"supervisory practices."
+""
+""
+""
+""
+"Updated 09/2024, Copyright © 2022, BACB® | All rights reserved.                      Behavior Analyst Certification Board | BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.) | 3"
+""