Jackie, a BCBA, is offered a great opportunity to go to Hawaii for a summer job as a camp director for children with developmental disabilities. The company she currently works for approves this temporary leave. At her current job Jackie is responsible for supervising 2 trainees. She informs them the week before her trip that she will be unable to supervise them while she is away and wishes them luck as they continue their work. Given this scenario, which ethics standard is being violated?

Bryce has a filing cabinet with the supervision documentation from each of his supervisees over the past 6 years. The cabinet is getting overly full, and he needs more space for current documents. Since some of the paperwork is from supervision provided 6 years ago, he is considering shredding it to make room for the current documents. Given this scenario, which ethics standard should the behavior analyst mainly consider?

BCBA Kristijan is supervising a group of three trainees who are all accruing hours to sit for the BCBA exam. As part of their supervision, Kristijan implements a schedule for all trainees to go through the same trainings on the basics of ABA. Even if some trainees do not need the trainings, he feels they should practice as a team. Given this scenario, which ethics standard is being violated?

Water chemistry, particularly salinity and temperature, plays an important role in the growth of environmental bacteria in the genus Vibrio.  In fact, altered water temperature has been associated with disease incidence of cholera.  A global warming trend could  have notable consequences on vibrio cell counts in the environment, and the spread of cholera.

Elevated nutrient loading in freshwater systems can increase the prevalence of nematode infections in herons and other wading birds.

Choose Yes or No for each of the following diseases/agents if they are known to affect or infect aquatic birds (considering lecture by Dr. Spalding).

Fish can have taste buds over many different parts of their body – one of many mechanisms for fish to “know their environment.”  Fish also have ears.

Vibrio vulnificus can be associated with both seafood poisoning as well as wound infection.

Ciguatera poisoning is the most commonly reported marine toxin disease reported worldwide.  It is caused by ingestion of higher trophic-level fish, like barracuda, that have high concentrations of toxins from the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus that have accumulated up the food chain .

Complete two journal entries for this question. Finished Goods sold on account $50,000.  The Cost of Goods Sold is $30,000