As a BCBA, you will need to prioritize goals. Please put the…

As a BCBA, you will need to prioritize goals. Please put these behaviors in order from First listed (i.e., highest priority) to the last listed (i.e., least priority): Hitting head on the ground or table at least 3 times every 2 minutes at home during dinner time and right before bed time One-word mands for preferred snack foods and toys in the class setting Hand flapping occurring for 5 second spurts for at least 5 occasions every minute interval in class Running out into the parking lot of the grocery store when mom asks him to stay in the car until she gets out

You work in a group home with a 20-year-old client who is no…

You work in a group home with a 20-year-old client who is non-verbal and wakes up in the middle of the night, climbs out of bed, walks out of the group home, and then walks down a local highway while cars speed past. Typically, the police pick up your client and bring him back to the group home. The staff have a team meeting about this critical issue and one therapist suggests that bars be placed on the sides and top of the bed, and then locked so that the client cannot leave his bed. This is disturbing to you as a BCBA. What is the most relevant ethical principle that could be violated in this scenario?

You are working as an RBT in a client’s home. Your BCBA supe…

You are working as an RBT in a client’s home. Your BCBA supervisor gives you a new plan to implement with your client that includes a continuous reinforcement schedule for completing questions on homework tasks. You follow the program and even have a fellow RBT take fidelity data on your implementation. After implementing this intervention for one month, the mother comes to you and says that she is concerned because her child will not complete the entire homework task because she satiates on the reinforcer after completing half of the questions. You let the BCBA know what is happening. The BCBA goes to the home and tells the mother that you implemented the intervention poorly and another RBT should implement the intervention. Which core principle does this situation most likely violate?

You work as a BCBA at a local clinic. A co-worker starts tal…

You work as a BCBA at a local clinic. A co-worker starts talking to you during the lunch break and you get into a discussion about behaviorism. She tells you that she is a “realist” and believes that behaviorists should just focus on observing and changing behavior. She also says that private events may be real, but we can’t observe them, so they should not be included in our methods. What type of behaviorism does she subscribe to?

You are an RBT working with middle school aged children. The…

You are an RBT working with middle school aged children. The child you are working with has reportedly been completing only up to 25% of his assigned homework before class the next day. The parents have talked with the BCBA and voiced their concerns over their child’s completion of homework assignments. After taking proper preliminary data, your BCBA supervisor has created a program implementing reinforcement procedures that include providing the child you serve with a piece of candy for every question he completes correctly within a reasonable time period (1 to 2 minutes). After you have completed these procedures with great gains of 100% correct completion of assignments over 5 consecutive days, what is the most reasonable next step?