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You are a BCBA working for a local school district. You are completing an FA on a student who yells the answer to the teacher’s questions without raising her hand. When the student does this, the teacher sends her to the back of the classroom to sit in timeout. You really want to decrease this behavior. What is the best intervention strategy for decreasing calling out behaviors based on the hypothesized function?

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 in-home with a client. Your BCBA just accepted this client, so this is your first session with the child. After the session, the mother comes up to you and says, “how much do I owe you for this session?”. You have never been asked this question before. Which ethical step was skipped in this situation? Choose the best answer.

One day, your supervisee asks you if single-case studies are inferior to group designs that implement statistical analyses. You mention that the field of single-case analysis is continually growing, but there are currently statistical calculations to acquire the magnitude of change.  The name for the calculated magnitude of change is called…

An FBA can include many components. Which FBA component includes systematic manipulations?

You are working with a new client whose program is targeting increasing spontaneous mands. In order to evoke a mand for “cracker” the behavior analyst should first _______.

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 Your fellow student wants to publish her dissertation article when she is finished, but she is worried it will not be published due to the lack of change for the third participant.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?

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

You are a BCBA consulting with a teacher in a general education setting. She has one student who continues to talk to his peers sitting next to him during lecture. The teacher asks him to stop, but he continues. The teacher eventually asks him to sit in the hall because he is being disruptive. The next couple of days in class, the student continues to talk to his peers and the teacher continues to send him out in the hall. The teacher tells you that it is so much easier to teach when the student is out in the hall. The teacher’s continued behavior in throwing the student out of class is due to…

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?