The Salvation Army Santa helpers have a distinct bell they ring during the holidays while standing next to the red kettles for donations.  As a child, Tim would hear the bell and his mother would give him a dollar to put in the kettle.  The Santa helper would always smile at Tim and give him a lollipop which increases the likelihood that he will ask his mom for a dollar next time he hears the bell.  Now, as an adult, anytime Tim hear that distinct bell, he looks for the kettle to donate money.  The sound of the bell is an example of which of the following?

Ana, a BCBA, wants to evaluate the effectiveness of using DRA for a child who exhibits attention-maintained property destruction. She decides to establish two types of contingencies that are always available: if the child engages in problem behavior, the attention delivered will consist of a neutral tone, short words and sentences, and gestures. However, if the child appropriately requests for attention, an enthusiastic praise is delivered. Ana measures the proportion of times in which the child chooses the appropriate response over problem behavior. What design is Ana using?

Which assessment results in establishing the functional relationship of a behavior and its environment?

The caretaker of a client explains that their child engages in screaming at all times of the day, regardless of who is with them or where they are. The BCBA runs consecutive alone sessions and sees stable and high levels of screaming. From this information, we can informally hypothesize that the behavior function is….

Which of the following is NOT a limitation of repeated measurement?

Johnny wants to study the effects of a token economy on the levels of task completion in individuals with developmental disabilities using a multiple baseline design. What would be the independent variable in this study?

A behavior program is conceptually systematic if it is based on_______

Calculate Scored Interval IOA   Observer A Observer B 10:00-10:15 X X 10:15-10:30 X X 10:30-10:45     10:45-11:00   X 11:00-11:15     11:15-11:30 X   11:30-11:45    

This refers to the functional relationship that exists when a well-controlled experiment demonstrates that a specific change in one event is reliably produced by specific manipulation of another event, and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors.

A BCBA is providing services to a new client that has a similarities to a previous client. Since their previous client benefitted significantly from their treatment program, the BCBA decided to use the same treatment without any changes. Is the BCBA violating the ethical code?