Unlike behaviorists, cognitive psychologists focus their inquiries on all of the following except:

What is missing in this graph?

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…

You are a BCBA working with a child in an ABA clinic. You would like to teach the child to identify specific colors. You bring out some color cards and place them close to you. You grab the blue card out of the pile and set it in front of the client. You say “touch blue” and the child touches the blue card. After this, you say “great job!” and provide a preferred toy for the child to play with for the next 30 seconds. You put the blue card in front of the child again and you say “touch blue”. The child touches the color card. What is the directive “touch blue” identified as?

Verbal behavior is unique to other forms of operant behavior in that it requires…

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.

You work in a group home with a 20-year-old client who is non-verbal and wakes up in the middle of the night, climbs out of bed, walks out of the group home, and then walks down a local highway while cars speed past. Typically, the police pick up your client and bring him back to the group home. The staff have a team meeting about this critical issue and one therapist suggests that bars be placed on the sides and top of the bed, and then locked so that the client cannot leave his bed. This is disturbing to you as a BCBA. What is the most relevant ethical principle that could be violated in this scenario?

You are a BCBA working with a 25-year-old female client in a group home. She has a boyfriend that comes over, but the staff only let them visit in the common living room so they can “keep an eye on them”. Your client has asked the staff to allow her boyfriend back in her room so that they can be alone. The staff continue to say “no”. What is the most relevant ethical principle present in this dilemma?

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

A teacher wants her students to come into class in the morning, and react to her verbal instruction, “It is time for breakfast” before going to the food table to start eating. The breakfast food is usually sitting out, but many students just walk over to the food immediately and start eating before the teacher has a chance to say “It is time for breakfast”. In order to do this, she pairs “It is time for breakfast” with the presence of the breakfast food on the table. In subsequent classes, she removes the food from the table, so students continue to respond to “It is time for breakfast” by sitting down at the breakfast table even without the presence of food. What learning process does this represent?