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The average hourly urine output in mL for an adult is:

A patient on bed rest is at risk for:

Behavior change that maintains over a period of time, occurs in multiple environments, and/or influences a variety of behaviors can be said to represent…

Which of the following feeding clinic graphs representing the number of bites taken of presented food meets the basic design standards?              

What is the best intervention strategy that can be used to teach multi-step or complex skills?

You are a BCBA at an ABA clinic. You work with a client who loves playing music videos on his iPad. When he comes into the clinic, you start your typical routine and place some mild demands (e.g., check your schedule). He refuses to comply even when you have his preferred item waiting for him after he transitions to the first item on the schedule. You are puzzled. This method is usually very effective. You talk to his dad after the session and he mentions that they hit a lot of traffic coming to the clinic, so he let him watch music videos on his iPad on the way to the clinic. What did you just witness?

Which example represents the effects of a conditioned MO?

You are conducting a single-case research study on teaching individuals with ASD employment skills (e.g., follow job task list, greet customers, ask employer or coworker for help, etc.) using video modeling. You are at the end of data collection on the participants’ behavior and you want to take data on social validity. According to Wolf (1978) all of the following are necessary for measuring social validity, EXCEPT:

You are a BCBA reviewing a manuscript that was written by one of the students you supervise. You are reviewing it before she submits it to a well-known ABA journal. This journal is adamant about picking out studies that include quality research. They do this by rating the quality indicators. Your student’s paper looks really good but the student seems to be missing the description of the intervention procedures. If the journal were to see this manuscript, what would they say?

A student you are supervising comes to you to ask for advice in conducting their single-case research. Your student is working with a client who needs immediate intervention. The client has been exhibiting challenging behavior (i.e., hitting, screaming, biting) that is tangibly maintained. Your student has already written up a proposal to intervene with FCT for the desired items. However, the client is nonverbal and has been communicating with PECS and an SGD on his iPad. Your student is not sure what single-case design would allow her to intervene with FCT immediately as well as measure effects of FCT with PECS and an SGD. You tell her that the best design would be…