You are a BCBA who works with a young client in an ABA clinic. Before she started Kindergarten, you worked toward goals that would help her succeed in school (e.g., social skills). You continue to work on these goals with her now that she is in school.  You would like to ask the teacher how things are going in class, so you can inquire about generalization. If you go straight to the teacher and ask about the child’s progress, you are violating….  

You are a BCBA consulting with one of your client’s parents in the home setting. You just began providing services to them and you have observed some of the interactions they have had with their child during intervention implementation. You are including parent training in your services, so you have weekly meetings to debrief with them and discuss topics to improve fidelity and answer any questions. This past week, the parents were implementing extinction procedures for their child that wanted to escape taking a bath. The child screamed and hit until the parents were exhausted, so they let him elope. You explain that the need for consistency in extinction is important. You also tell them that is important to consider their child’s behavior and function, but it is just as important to…

Unlike behaviorists, cognitive psychologists focus their inquiries on all of the following except:

You are a BCBA and the director of an ABA clinic. You conduct intake assessments and place clients with specific BCBAs. You have a potential client who comes in. After interviewing the parents and observing the child, you learn that the child engages in pica and typically eats sand from the sandbox. You make note that this child could definitely benefit from ABA services. In addition, the parents bring a note from the doctor that the child does not suffer from a vitamin deficiency and does not have an underlying medical issue that causes pica. You are excited about boosting client numbers, so you tell the parents you have accepted the child in the clinic, but you don’t run this by any of the other BCBAs. You are not exactly sure of their previous experiences with specific food-related behaviors, but they have been amazing in treating a variety of challenging behaviors. If you go forward with the placement of this child without discussing it with the BCBA who will be implementing the intervention, what is the most likely ethical violation

You are a BCBA who works for the school district. You get a call from a teacher asking you to come to the classroom ASAP and help her with a student who is “acting up” in class. The teacher hangs up the phone and you don’t get any other information. What is the first thing you should do after getting the phone call?

You are a BCBA working with a child in an ABA clinic. You would like to teach the child to identify specific colors. You bring out some color cards and place them close to you. You grab the blue card out of the pile and set it in front of the client. You say “touch blue” and the child touches the blue card. After this, you say “great job!” and provide a preferred toy for the child to play with for the next 30 seconds. You put the blue card in front of the child again and you say “touch blue”. The child touches the color card. What is the directive “touch blue” identified as?

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

According to Stokes & Baer (1977), a BCBA can encourage generalization of a skill in all of the following ways, EXCEPT…

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 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?