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 Your fellow student wants to publish her dissertation article when she is finished, but she is worried it will not be published due to the lack of change for the third participant.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

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 are working with a child who is learning to mand for information. After assessing the learner for preference, you identify his favorite games to use during the sessions. Then, you hide relevant, needed items to evoke a mand for the missing item. Manipulating the establishing operation for the missing item is likely to __________.

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

A therapist is working to increase the complexity of a client’s manding repertoire by targeting mands for action. The therapist uses environmental arrangement by locking the cabinet where the client’s favorite toys are located. The locked cabinet creates the opportunity for the learner to engage in the mand “unlock the cabinet”. In this scenario what is the source of control of the mand?