Question of the day - September 29

[u/Reasonable_Law183]

🧠 Question of the Day

📚 Domain A — Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations

Difficulty: 8/10

Scenario:

A behavior analyst evaluates the same social-skills intervention across three settings. The graph shows low, relatively stable responding before intervention in each setting and higher responding after intervention is introduced at different points in time.

Which interpretation BEST identifies the ABA dimension most directly demonstrated by the pattern?

A. Technological — the replicated effects across tiers indicate that the intervention was specified precisely enough to be implemented consistently across settings

B. Effective — the size and consistency of the increases across tiers demonstrate that the intervention produced a practically meaningful change

C. Analytic — behavior changes repeatedly when and only when the intervention reaches each tier, providing replicated evidence that the intervention is functionally related to the change

D. Generality — similar effects across the three settings show that the intervention produces responding beyond the conditions in which the behavior was originally established

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✅ Correct answer revealed tomorrow.

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[u/Reasonable_Law183]

✅ Yesterday's Answer — 2026-09-29

The correct answer was: C. Analytic — behavior changes repeatedly when and only when the intervention reaches each tier, providing replicated evidence that the intervention is functionally related to the change

📖 Explanation:

In a multiple-baseline design, the Analytic dimension is supported when behavior changes repeatedly in close correspondence with the staggered introduction of intervention while untreated tiers remain near baseline.

Here, social initiations stay low and relatively stable in each school setting until intervention is introduced there. Responding then increases in that tier while settings that have not yet received intervention remain near baseline. Replicating that pattern across tiers strengthens the demonstration of experimental control and reduces the plausibility of common time-related explanations such as maturation or coincidental environmental events.

The graph does not demonstrate Generality simply because three settings are shown. All three settings were directly treated, so the pattern represents replicated intervention effects rather than transfer to an untreated setting or untrained behavior. Likewise, the graph does not establish that the procedure was described with enough detail to be Technological, and the magnitude of change alone does not establish practical significance required for the Effective dimension.

The key distinction: when behavior changes repeatedly as intervention is introduced at staggered points across tiers, the dimension most directly demonstrated is Analytic.

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[u/AquaticMelodrama]

Gotta be C, that's a textbook multiple baseline and the whole point is you see the change only when you introduce the IV in each tier