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?

Verbal behavior is unique to other forms of operant behavior in that it requires…

Please put the following, numbered graphs measuring the number of mands for preferred items in order of those graphs that show no/least experimental control to those graphs that show the most experimental control.

You are pursuing your BCBA and you are a part of a research team at the university you attend. You are helping another student finish her dissertation that focused on implementing an ABA intervention to decrease SIB. The student implemented this intervention with three participants. Two of the three participants had great results and their behaviors decreased to consistent zero instances after implementation. One student, however, did not decrease his SIB after intervention. Your fellow student wants to publish her dissertation article when she is finished, but she is worried it will not be published due to the lack of change for the third participant. Her supervising professor for the dissertation is a BCBA, but was unaware that she implemented the intervention with three participants, so the student decided to take the third participant’s data and any mention of that participant out of the paper. The dissertation only includes information and implementation regarding 2 participants. If the supervising professor signs off on this dissertation, her or she could be held accountable for this ethical violation. If you are thinking like a BCBA, what would be the best response in this case?

A behavioral therapist is worried because her client has begun to work on increasing his tacting repertoire, but the client seems to be engaging in a response that may be functioning as a mand. What would the therapist need to evaluate to determine if the behavior is a tact?

You are a BCBA working in a local school. You have been observing a student who immediately yells “I know, I know” every time the teacher asks the class a question. This has become incredibly disruptive in class, so the teacher would like to decrease this behavior to zero levels. You conduct an FBA and the function is most likely attention. You create an intervention that gives the student a token for each expression of the replacement behavior (i.e., raising hand with a completely quiet mouth). The student responds, but the behavior only decreases to 50% over the next month. You know that you need to implement a negative punishment procedure that includes taking away a token every time the child speaks in response to the teacher asking a question without raising his hand first. Are these punishment procedures ethical?

Rosa has educational goals to learn to speak English. Her therapist presents pictures of preferred items, states the label in English, and prompts Rosa to repeat them. Over time, the therapist stops labeling items and begins to present Rosa with a variety of pictures of the same items. The therapist is utilizing ___________ to teach Rosa.

When writing a thorough behavioral goal, 4 components need to be present in order to properly assess an individual’s behavioral progress. Are any of the 4 components missing or in need revision in the behavioral goal below? If so, how many components are missing or in need revision in the following behavioral goal?   Given a piece of paper with 5, 4-word vocabulary words written with dotted lines, Sally will trace for 50% of the time for 5 days.  

A teacher wants her students to come into class in the morning, and react to her verbal instruction, “It is time for breakfast” before going to the food table to start eating. The breakfast food is usually sitting out, but many students just walk over to the food immediately and start eating before the teacher has a chance to say “It is time for breakfast”. In order to do this, she pairs “It is time for breakfast” with the presence of the breakfast food on the table. In subsequent classes, she removes the food from the table, so students continue to respond to “It is time for breakfast” by sitting down at the breakfast table even without the presence of food. What learning process does this represent?

A child has acquired the 12-step skill of using the restroom and washing hands at the local ABA clinic. One day, the child’s mother took her to a department store when the child requested to go to the restroom. The child completed the 12-step process in  the department store bathroom. One week later, the child’s teacher told her mom that she completed the 12-step process in the school restrooms. What do these scenarios represent?