BDS CORRECT FINAL ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔as of jan 1, the document that guides the professional activities of behavior
analysts... - ✔✔the ethics code
✔✔behavior analysts who employ questionable intervention create a risk of unethical
treatments being associated with - ✔✔the profession of ABA and other behavior
analysts
✔✔historically, there has been a perception that the general public that behavioral
interventions involve mistreatment and this association between the two persists today.
most effective way to break this association between ABA and mistreatment would be -
✔✔ensure practitioners engage in exemplary ethical behavior sustained over a long
period of time
✔✔the rapid growth of behavior analysis and the concern over ethical behavior of
practitioners has stemmed from the fact that - ✔✔there is a lone history of abuse
inflicted on the population of people behavior analysts serve
✔✔which of the following activities are covered by the ethics code - ✔✔- research and
publication activities
- editorial and peer review activities
- management activities
✔✔the ethics code for behavior analysts - ✔✔- guides professional activities of those
whom the BACB has jurisdiction
- provides guidelines that behavior analysts can sue to evaluate own behavior
- provides guidelines that others can use to assess whether a behavior analysts has
met their ethical obligations
✔✔the ethics code applied to a select group of people. this includes - ✔✔BCBAs and
BCaBAs and those who have completed an application
, ✔✔research indicates that the goals behavior analysts target for children with ASD do
not produce meaningful outcomes in adulthood - ✔✔true
✔✔identify the risks associated with a behavior analyst engaging in unethical behavior -
✔✔- clients and stakeholders may be harmed through the use of questionable
treatments
- clients may not achieve meaningful outcomes
- the profession is associated with questionable treatments
- an unethical behavior analysts can lose their credential or job
- the reputation of other behavior analysts is harmed by unethical colleague
✔✔ Which type of experimental design is more likely to result in a Type II error? -
✔✔Single-subject
✔✔The fundamental logic underlying group research design is that - ✔✔participants in
each study condition are "equivalent" in key characteristics
✔✔group designs are best viewed as ______ to single-subject designs -
✔✔complementary
✔✔in group comparison research designs, a large number of participants - ✔✔are
randomly divided into two or more study conditions
✔✔which type of experimental design is a quantitative approach that tried to establish
causal relationships by manipulating an independent variables, measuring a dependent
variables, and controlling extraneous variables - ✔✔both single and group
✔✔an advantage of single-subject research designs is that - ✔✔individual variability is
controlled by exposing each subject to all conditions
✔✔establishing treatment effectiveness using single subject methodologies -
✔✔provides verification for the use of evidence-based practices
✔✔which type of experimental design is more likely to be recognized and accepted by
the general public and used as a basis for public policy decisions - ✔✔group design
✔✔a disadvantage of averaging the performance of participants in a group design is
that it can - ✔✔mask variability that is important to investigate
✔✔advantages of single subject research designs include - ✔✔- the identification of
treatments that work for individuals
- it addresses behavior variability through the experimental design
- the demonstration of experimental control within the design
SET A+
✔✔as of jan 1, the document that guides the professional activities of behavior
analysts... - ✔✔the ethics code
✔✔behavior analysts who employ questionable intervention create a risk of unethical
treatments being associated with - ✔✔the profession of ABA and other behavior
analysts
✔✔historically, there has been a perception that the general public that behavioral
interventions involve mistreatment and this association between the two persists today.
most effective way to break this association between ABA and mistreatment would be -
✔✔ensure practitioners engage in exemplary ethical behavior sustained over a long
period of time
✔✔the rapid growth of behavior analysis and the concern over ethical behavior of
practitioners has stemmed from the fact that - ✔✔there is a lone history of abuse
inflicted on the population of people behavior analysts serve
✔✔which of the following activities are covered by the ethics code - ✔✔- research and
publication activities
- editorial and peer review activities
- management activities
✔✔the ethics code for behavior analysts - ✔✔- guides professional activities of those
whom the BACB has jurisdiction
- provides guidelines that behavior analysts can sue to evaluate own behavior
- provides guidelines that others can use to assess whether a behavior analysts has
met their ethical obligations
✔✔the ethics code applied to a select group of people. this includes - ✔✔BCBAs and
BCaBAs and those who have completed an application
, ✔✔research indicates that the goals behavior analysts target for children with ASD do
not produce meaningful outcomes in adulthood - ✔✔true
✔✔identify the risks associated with a behavior analyst engaging in unethical behavior -
✔✔- clients and stakeholders may be harmed through the use of questionable
treatments
- clients may not achieve meaningful outcomes
- the profession is associated with questionable treatments
- an unethical behavior analysts can lose their credential or job
- the reputation of other behavior analysts is harmed by unethical colleague
✔✔ Which type of experimental design is more likely to result in a Type II error? -
✔✔Single-subject
✔✔The fundamental logic underlying group research design is that - ✔✔participants in
each study condition are "equivalent" in key characteristics
✔✔group designs are best viewed as ______ to single-subject designs -
✔✔complementary
✔✔in group comparison research designs, a large number of participants - ✔✔are
randomly divided into two or more study conditions
✔✔which type of experimental design is a quantitative approach that tried to establish
causal relationships by manipulating an independent variables, measuring a dependent
variables, and controlling extraneous variables - ✔✔both single and group
✔✔an advantage of single-subject research designs is that - ✔✔individual variability is
controlled by exposing each subject to all conditions
✔✔establishing treatment effectiveness using single subject methodologies -
✔✔provides verification for the use of evidence-based practices
✔✔which type of experimental design is more likely to be recognized and accepted by
the general public and used as a basis for public policy decisions - ✔✔group design
✔✔a disadvantage of averaging the performance of participants in a group design is
that it can - ✔✔mask variability that is important to investigate
✔✔advantages of single subject research designs include - ✔✔- the identification of
treatments that work for individuals
- it addresses behavior variability through the experimental design
- the demonstration of experimental control within the design
