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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 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…

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?