Jackpot (Ethics)
As a RBT, you have been working with a client and his family for several years. You have provided successful behavior analytic services and they are extremely pleased. The mother of your client knows that you have been saving up for Jamaica and wanted to give you a small token to enjoy while on your trip. She gifts you a mug that values $5.00 and it reads, "Get Your Groove On."
Is this ethical: True or False
True
Over the course of the day, an RBT notices that a student is requesting more bathroom breaks than usual. His BCBA tells him to collect data on requests the next day. Which type of data collection makes the most sense?
Latency
Duration
Count
Momentary Time Sampling
3. Count
You are trying to increase your client's behavior of sitting for at least 3 minutes for seat work. What principle of behavior should you use?
a. Reinforcement
b. Extinction
c. Discrete Trial Training
d. none of these
A. Reinforcement
The Founding Fathers of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) are?
Baer, Wolf and Risley
What strategy is defined as: Reinforcement for responses lower than a predetermined criterion.
Differential Reinforcement of Lower Rate Behaviors (DRL)
As a RBT, you have a client on your caseload for only 30 days before he decides to transition out of the program. How long should you retain his records?
a. There is no need to retain the records because he has not been your client for more than 12 months.
b. You should retain the records for five (5) years.
c. You are not required to retain records for clients.
d. You should retain the client's records for seven (7) years.
D. Retain the records for seven (7) years.
Temporal Extent measures which aspect of behavior?
Duration
The withholding of reinforcement with the hopes of decreasing or totally interrupting an undesirable behavior is the definition of what term?
a. Reinforcement
b. Planned Ignoring
c. Extinction
d. none of these
C. Extinction
A stimulus change in the environment that occurred before the behavior.
Antecedent or trigger
You want to know which items are more preferable to your client. You should conduct which assessment?
a. Reinforcer Assessment
b. Functional Behavior Assessment
c. Punisher Assessment
d. None of These
D. None of These. You would conduct a preference assessment (Ask, Observe or Trail Base).
As a RBT, you have a client who is engaging in aggressive behaviors described as: hitting with a closed fist, spitting, kicking and biting. The parents brings you a report from his medical provider that states the child's behaviors could also stem from his diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The doctor and the parents would like to collaborate with you and place the child on medication for his disorder. You personally do not agree with medications for children and would only like to provide applied behavior analytic services. You dismiss all requests from the doctor and try to convince the parents not to medicate. Is this ethical? If not, explain why.
This is not ethical. We should collaborate with other professionals in the best interest of the client and not our own personal interest and preferences.
As an RBT, you have a student who engages in high rate behaviors that occurs frequently and for long durations. You want to use the best measurement system to capture the best representation of the data. What measurement system would you use?
a. A Discontinuous Measurement System
b. A Continuous Measurement System
c. Repeatability
d. all of these
A) Discontinuous Measurement System
When we count the time between the end of one response to the start of another response is measuring what?
Interresponse Time (IRT)
Sensory, Escape, Attention and Access to Tangibles are all considered what?
Functions of Behavior
Establishing Operations have what behavior altering effect:
a. Provocative
b. Abative
c. Evocative
d. none of these
Part 2: As a RBT you are working with a client to "reduce" smoking behavior. You place the cigarettes downstairs, on a high self requiring a step-stool to get them, you then have the cigarettes placed in a locked box requiring a combination code. As a result his smoking behavior begins to diminish. This strategy has what value altering effect?
a. evocative
b. abative
c. abolishing
d. none of these
C. Evocative
C. Abolishing
It's appropriate to discontinue services when: (1) the client has met all behavior-change goals, (2) the client is not benefiting from the service, (3) the behavior analyst and/or their supervisees or trainees are exposed to potentially harmful conditions that cannot be reasonably resolved, (4) the client and/or relevant stakeholder requests discontinuation, (5) the relevant stakeholders are not complying with the behavior-change intervention despite appropriate efforts to address barriers, or (6) services are no longer funded. Behavior analysts provide the client and/or relevant stakeholders with a written plan for discontinuing services.
True or False
True
As the RBT, it's time to go outside for outdoor play. You ask your client/student to get his coat. You notice it takes him 5 minutes to get his coat. You want to reduce the time it takes from 5 minutes to 1 minute if not shorter. You are working on which measure of behavior?
a. Duration
b. Count
c. Latency
d. Temporal Extent
C. Latency
You are a RBT and you are trying to determine what your client prefers in support of understanding potential reinforcers. What approaches would you take?
a. Ask, Observe, Trail Based
b. Select Items for the client, DTT, and FBA
c. Ask the client or stakeholders, observe the client, and conduct trial based assessments.
d. all of these
C is the "best" answer selection.
Which one of these do not belong in this group of dimensions:
a. Generality
b. Philosophical Doubt
c. Applied
d. all of these
B. Philosophical Doubt
An environmental variable that (a) alters (increase or decrease) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object or event
Motivating Operation (MO)
As a RBT, you have been working with a client for two (2) years. You and the client eventually have grown fond of one another and would like to move into a more romantic relationship. Is this ethical and if so, how long must you wait?
a. It is not ethical.
b. It is ethical only if you wait two (2) years after the last date of service.
c. It is ethical and you do not have to wait as long as the client gives written consent.
d. none of these
B. It is ethical only if you wait 2 years after the last date of service.
Temporal Locus measures which aspect of behavior?
Latency and Interresponse Time (IRT)
What strategy is defined as: Reinforcement provided at the “end” of a predetermined time interval when the number of responses is “less” than a criterion that is gradually decreased across time intervals based on the individual's performance.
Differential Reinforcement of Diminishing Behaviors (DRD)
This stimulus change within the environment signals the availability of reinforcement
Discriminative Stimulus (SD)
The advancement of the science through laboratory experimentation with nonhuman subjects. From the body of work came the formal description of respondent and operant behaviors. What is this term?
Who invented or discovered it?
EAB: Experimental Analysis of Behavior
John Watson