The big picture is that the Task List covers a wide range of topics related to ABA. It outlines the core principles of ABA that help you become an ABA specialist. There are nine sections, and the posts in ABA*Kazam are organized based on the Task List 5th Edition.
A) Basic Ideas of ABA: This is a small part of the exam and covers things like the different assumptions about how behavior works.
B) Key Concepts: This is a bigger part of the exam and covers things like how people learn through rewards and punishments, how to make learned skills last longer, and how to understand different types of behavior.
C) Measuring Behavior: This section covers how to accurately measure behavior so you can track progress.
D) Designing Experiments: This section is about understanding how to test different approaches to changing behavior.
E) Ethics: This section covers the professional and ethical guidelines behavior specialists must follow.
F) Assessing Behavior: This section covers how to figure out why someone behaves in a certain way.
G) Changing Behavior: This is the largest part of the exam and covers different strategies for teaching new skills or changing unwanted behaviors.
H) Putting it All Together: This section covers how to choose the right strategies based on the assessment and how to monitor progress.
I) Supervising Others: This is a small part of the exam and covers how to guide and support others who are learning about ABA.
How are we using the task list here in ABA*Kazam?
Well, by all means you can use it for study, but the main objective is for people who are seeing these concepts for the first time (the world of ABA is new to them and a lot of the information is in English). We used the task list as a guide to find concepts, basics of ABA, etc. as a guide to organize the concepts involved in the lingo of ABA. In other words, it's for people to start getting familiar with the concepts and terminology by being able to access examples in Spanish and see the translation as a concept (not translated as a whole sentence). The Task List gets updated every now and then, and it might not always align with the most current one in format, but all the concepts are constantly updated. The order might be different.