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?

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?

What is the best way to interpret the results of the function in the following FA data?

Which scientist studied the role of the environment in fostering cognitive growth?

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?