[FinB] Betty is a new behavior analyst consulting at a publi…

Betty is a new behavior analyst consulting at a public school. She ignores the input of her client’s other therapists during a treatment team meeting. She tells them that behavior analysis has far more empirical support than their disciplines, so her services should be prioritized. Who is put at risk by the behavior analyst’s unethical behavior? 

[FinB] Enrique uses behavior skills training techniques to t…

Enrique uses behavior skills training techniques to teach staff how to meet and speak with new clients of various cultural backgrounds by engaging in active listening skills, making empathetic statements, avoiding jargon and using understandable language, and moving from open-ended to closed-ended questions. Which area from the Gatzunis (2020) study is being targeted when teaching cultural humility in this scenario?

[FinB] Fariah has a supervisee who often disagrees with corr…

Fariah has a supervisee who often disagrees with corrective feedback and acts combatively. Due to this, Fariah often avoids giving corrective feedback generally and provides carefully worded guidance through email the week after the session. Unfortunately, errors in procedures and documentation have continued to occur for multiple consecutive months. What would be the best course of action for the behavior analyst to take?

[FINA] Stanley wants to test the effectiveness of a spelling…

Stanley wants to test the effectiveness of a spelling intervention on three members of a middle-school classroom. He takes baseline and intervention data on the behavior of the first student and, once he has begun to collect intervention data, he then records baseline and then intervention data on the behavior of the second student. Once he begins collecting intervention data for the second student, he repeats the process for the third student. Which experimental design is Stanley using?

Females heterozygous for the recessive second chromosome mut…

Females heterozygous for the recessive second chromosome mutations pn, px, and sp are mated to a male homozygous for all three mutations. The offspring are as follows: px sp cn        1,461 px sp cn+      3,497 px sp+ cn         1 px sp+ cn+     11 px+ sp cn        9 px+ sp cn+     0 px+ sp+ cn     3,482 px+ sp+ cn+   1,539 Total               10,000   Which of three genes is in the middle?