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ABA 10 Ethics Exam Study Guide with
Verified Solutions
4 pillars of ethical, responsible professional behavior - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1.
Boundaries
2. Confidentiality
3. Professionalism
4. Do no harm
3 fundamental questions of ethical practice - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1. What is the right
thing to do?
2. What is worth doing?
3. What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst?
The right thing to do - Correct Answer✔️✔️-- May be different across culture and over
long time periods
- Training as a BCBA should override personal history (eg, grew up with spankings)
- Somethings are legal, but unethical (eg, consensual sex with adult client)
What is worth doing - Correct Answer✔️✔️-What are we trying to accomplish?
How are you trying to accomplish it?
Social validity
Cost-benefit ratio
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2 ways to assess social validity - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1. Social comparison: compare
performance with a normal group; however normative data may not be relevant
2. Subjective evaluation of experts: experts who are very familiar with client may
evaluate performance (but may not tell us about intervention success)
How to address cost versus benefit issues - Correct Answer✔️✔️--Bring issue to
committee
-Give greatest consideration to perspectives of those with highest stake in the outcome
-Seek hierarchy of opinion and input to gain widest possible viewpoint
Things to consider regarding behavior treatment - Correct Answer✔️✔️--Effectiveness
-Intrusiveness
-Possible harmful side effects
-May mean delaying intervention temporarily
A good behavior analyst - Correct Answer✔️✔️--Follows professional codes of conduct
-Keeps clients' welfare in mind
3 reasons why we abide by ethics - Correct Answer✔️✔️-MHS
1. Meaningful change
2. Harm
3. Standards (conform to ethical standards of learned societies and professional
organizations)
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