Behavioral Assessments Final

when trying to determine the right thing to do in a given situation, which factors should you consider?

your own personal history in similar circumstances, your professional training and experience, the rules of the local setting, ethical guidelines published by your professional organization

ethical is ultimately related to

cultural practices

ethics encompasses

the primary goal is of furthering the welfare of the client, behaviors and decisions that revolve around the “right thing to do”

Joan is a behavior analyst providing services to a child with autism. She has been having a difficult time with the child's family. She is out for coffee one day, when her cell phone rings. It is her mother, who asks how things are going. She tells her mother about her woes with this family, explaining that the intervention she has implemented doesn't seem to be working and that she is having trouble with the parents, who seem to be questioning her skills. Her mother, who is a retired teacher (not a behavior analyst), asks, "Is this the same family that you had trouble with last year?" Joan replies, "No, this is a different family. This is the Jacksons. They are very wealthy and live on the upper side of town. You remember them. You met them at a school board meeting once." Consider Joan's behavior relative to issues of confidentiality. Which of the following statements is true?

b) Joan committed a breach of confidentiality intentionally, and this is of great concern

Michael is a behavior analyst working at an adult day treatment program, where the staff always involves their clients in planning their day programs. Today, Michael is holding a meeting with one of his clients, Dan, who has moderate mental disabilities and has been having trouble with his behavior during work periods. Dan has been getting up partway through the day and running out of the room, screaming. While he is out of the room, he often tears papers off the wall and destroys the agency's property. The team is meeting with Dan today to determine how his intervention will be revised. Michael is proposing that a response cost intervention be imposed, where Dan will lose some of the money he has earned for every minute he is out of the room. Dan is opposed to this intervention because he doesn't want to be fined. Michael and the team say to Dan, "But this intervention is trying to help you. I guess if you don't want to do this, we will have to revise your intervention so that you don't earn as much money. We need to pay for all the damage you have caused." After discussing some other options that the team didn't feel would be as effective, Dan says he'd like to think about it, but his bus just pulled up and he needs to leave for the day. The team tells him this needs to be decided today, or he cannot return to the facility tomorrow. What ethical issue has the team violated

b) They are attempting to coerce Dan into the intervention, interfering with his right to voluntarily participate in the intervention

what is conflict of interest?

when a behavior analyst, either alone or in tandem with a client, family, friends, or associates of the client has a vested interest in the outcome of the interaction.

what is the extent to which a learner emits the target behavior in a setting or stimulus situation that is different from the instructional setting

setting/situation generalization

A learner’s untrained but functionally equivalent responses result in poor performance. this would be an example of what?

undesirable outcome of response generalization

when a target behavior comes under the restricted control of an irrelevant antecedent stimulus, it is an example of what?

faulty stimulus control.

Sam and his grandmother are sharing stories about being teachers. Sam’s grandmother shares that she frequently hit students with a ruler as a teacher

hitting students with a ruler may have been ethical in Sam’s grandmother’s teaching era but may not be ethical in today’s culture.

confidentiality has what?

limitations that should be explicitly stated.

Sam is taught to press a break button when a break is needed. later, Sam randomly says “break please” when a break is needed. This is most likely

response generalization

Sam is learning to identify the term “baseball” by using a baseball card. when Sam sees athletic shoes, he says “baseball” and does not identify baseballs. This is most likely

faulty stimulus control.

Sam is working on greeting behaviors with a client. Sam programs some discriminative stimuli, like when someone waves to the person, and some stimulus deltas, like when someone is far away or otherwise looks busy. this is most likely?

using negative teaching example.

Sam is teaching a student to use the card reader in the subway system. Sam uses actual subway cards and uses materials that give the same message as the card reader. This is most likely

Programing common stimuli

Sam is teaching a student to use the card reader in the subway system. Sam is varying setting stimuli that are unrelated to the card reader. This is most likely

Teaching loosely

when Jackie wanted attention, she used to disrobe at her day program. A practitioner suggested that she replaced this behavior with a “hello, I would like to talk to you” However, this did not work. What was wrong with the replacement behavior?

the magnitude of the reinforcer was grossly ignored.

the most socially significant behavior changes are the ones that what?

last over time, are used in all relevant settings and situations, are accompanied by other functionally related responses.

Baer, Wolf, and Risley stated that a behavior change may be said to have generality if it proves

Durable over time, if it appears in a wide variety of possible environments, or if it spreads to a wide variety of related behaviors.

Stokes and Baer stated that the occurrence of relevant behavior under different

nontraining conditions without the scheduling of the same events in those conditions.

what is nontraining conditions?

across subjects, settings, people, behaviors and/or time

When a learner emits a trained behavior in places or at times without having to be retrained completely in those places or times, or emits functionally related behaviors that were not taught directly is what?

generalized behavior change.

what are the three basic forms of generalized behavior change?

response maintenance, setting/situation generalization, and response generalization,

what is the extent to which a learner continues to perform a target behavior after a portion or all of the intervention responsible for the behavior’s initial appearance in the learner’s repertoire has been terminated?

response maintenance

what is the extent to which a leaner emits a target behavior in setting or stimulus situation that differs from the instructional setting in any meaningful way?

setting/situation generalization

what did Drabman, Hammer, and Rosenbaum combine of generalized treatment effects into a conceptual framework they called the generalization map?

across time, across settings, across behaviors, across subjects

what is recombinative generalization?

a learner creates a new response by recombining know elements.

what is criterion of functionality?

a behavior is functional only to the extent that it produces reinforcement for the learner