Sunday, February 23, 2014

The Seven Dimensions of ABA


I am a very visual learner, so as I prepare for the BCaBA and BCBA, I thought it would be a great idea to create visuals for different concepts.

First up...  The Seven Dimensions of ABA based on Baer, Wolf, and Risley.  If you have not read this article, I highly recommend reading it.

Trick to Remember The 7 Dimensions of ABA: 
GET A CAB
Generality, Effective, Technological, Applied, Conceptually Systematic, Analytic, Behavioral
(Thanks BehaviorBabe for this great acronym)


However, remember that the BCBA is probably not just going to ask you, "What are the 7 dimensions of ABA?"  Instead, it might ask you an application based question about one of the dimensions, so it is important to be able to describe these in detail.  A visual with short definitions is below. 




Baer, D.M., Wolf, M.M., & Risley, T.R. (1968). Some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis1, 91-97

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