Ethics Code
Behavior analysts engage with clients and others in a respectful, culturally responsive, and inclusive manner.
What is Treat Others with Compassion, Dignity, and Respect?
Red apples, green apples, and yellow apples are part of this.
What is a stimulus class?
This term refers to observing and measuring behavior as it occurs.
What is empiricism?
You should provide this immediately and specifically to promote desirable staff behavior.
What is positive feedback?
A child is taught to say "water" when thirsty.
What is Operant? (Skill Acquisition)
A behavior analyst does not exploit relationships or misrepresent credentials, services, or outcomes.
What is behave with integrity?
Different topographies of behavior that produce the same effect on the environment.
What is a response class?
The philosophical assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place.
What is determinism?
An effective supervisor uses this type of data to guide supervision decisions.
What is performance data?
A client has a fear response (increased heart rate, crying) to loud noises.
What is Respondent? (Phobia or anxiety)
Maintain high standards of performance and actively seek supervision, consultation, or training when needed.
What is Ensure Competence?
Teaching multiple ways to ask for help builds this.
What is a response class repertoire?
This branch of behaviorism emphasizes the private events of the individual as subject to the same laws of behavior.
What is radical behaviorism?
An important part of training new staff to implement behavior plans correctly.
What is behavioral skills training (BST)?
A teen earns money for completing chores.
What is Operant? (Token Economy)
The client’s welfare and rights take priority in decision-making.
What is Benefit Others?
A group of stimuli that share common properties and evoke the same response.
What is a stimulus class?
This dimension of applied behavior analysis involves demonstrating that an intervention is responsible for behavior change.
What is analytic?
Monitoring staff to ensure interventions are implemented as intended is known as this.
What is treatment integrity or procedural fidelity?
A child feels pressure in the bladder and urinates.
What is respondent? (Bladder signals)
Services must be evidence-based and in the client’s best interest.
What is benefit others?
Waving, saying “hello,” and smiling to greet someone are examples of this.
What is a response class?
The dimension of ABA that requires procedures to be clearly defined and replicable.
What is technological?
The first step in effective supervision is clearly defining these.
What are performance expectations?
A client screams to gain attention.
What is Operant? (learned behavior)