Dimensions of ABA

Dimensions of ABA

1. Applied

   • Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the participants.

2. Behavioral

   • Precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement & documents that it was the participant's behavior that changed

3. Analytic

   • Demonstrated experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior (a functional relation is demonstrated).

4. Technological

   • The written description of all procedures in the study is sufficiently complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it. All operative procedures are identified and described in detail & clarity so it can be replicated.

5. Conceptually Systematic

   • Behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior. Better enable research consumer to derive other similar procedures from the same principles.

6. Effective

   • Improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results of the participants. Improvements in behavior must reach clincal or social significance to be effective.

7. Generalized Outcomes

   • Produces behavior changes that last over time. Appear in other environments or spread to other behaviors.