This section focuses on the foundational principles that guide behavior analytic practice, including reinforcement, punishment, extinction, stimulus control, motivating operations, and behavior-environment interactions. It provides definitions, examples, and tools to help users understand how these principles are applied to teach new behaviors, reduce problem behaviors, and support meaningful behavior change across settings. 

This section focuses on how behavior analysts define, collect, organize, and analyze data to make informed clinical decisions. Key topics include measurement types (e.g., frequency, duration, latency), interobserver agreement (IOA), visual analysis of graphed data, and interpretation of data trends and variability. Understanding these tools ensures accurate, ethical, and evidence-based practice across assessment and intervention. 

This section introduces the core experimental designs used in applied behavior analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. It covers single-case experimental designs such as reversal (ABAB), multiple baseline, alternating treatments, and changing criterion designs. Understanding these methods helps behavior analysts demonstrate functional relationships between interventions and behavior change through systematic, data-driven analysis. 

This section explores the ethical responsibilities and professional conduct expected of behavior analysts, as outlined in the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts (2022). It covers key topics such as informed consent, confidentiality, dual relationships, professional competence, and reporting violations. Through definitions, case examples, practice questions, decision-making tools, and curated resources, this section helps users apply ethical standards both in exam preparation and real-world practice. 

This section explains how behavior analysts identify, define, and assess problem behaviors to inform ethical and effective intervention. It includes indirect assessments (e.g., interviews, rating scales), direct observations (e.g., ABC data), and functional behavior assessments (FBA) to determine the function of behavior. Understanding these assessment methods ensures that interventions are based on objective data and tailored to individual client needs. 

This section focuses on the core strategies behavior analysts use to increase, decrease, or maintain behaviors. It includes reinforcement procedures (positive and negative), prompting and fading, shaping, chaining, differential reinforcement, extinction, and punishment. Emphasis is placed on selecting procedures based on function, ensuring social validity, and applying interventions ethically and effectively in individualized treatment plans. 

This section focuses on how behavior analysts choose and apply interventions that are both effective and ethically appropriate. It covers selecting evidence-based procedures based on assessment data, considering social validity, cultural responsiveness, client assent, and ongoing progress monitoring. Emphasis is placed on tailoring interventions to individual needs and implementing them with treatment integrity to ensure meaningful behavior change. 

This section focuses on how behavior analysts choose and apply interventions that are both effective and ethically appropriate. It covers selecting evidence-based procedures based on assessment data, considering social validity, cultural responsiveness, client assent, and ongoing progress monitoring. Emphasis is placed on tailoring interventions to individual needs and implementing them with treatment integrity to ensure meaningful behavior change. 

This section covers the essential skills behavior analysts need to train, supervise, and support staff and supervisees. Topics include building effective supervisory relationships, setting supervision goals, using performance diagnostics, and applying behavior-analytic strategies like feedback and behavior skills training (BST). Emphasis is placed on culturally responsive, equitable, and data-driven supervision practices that improve both staff performance and client outcomes.