SPCE 619 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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Three question to asked when presented with an ethical dilemma
(Freeman, LeBlanc, & Martinez-Diaz) - 🧠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 six-step decision-making process for ethical concerns (Rosenburg and
Schwartz) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Identifying if there is an ethical concern.
2. Brainstorming solutions
3. Evaluating solutions
,4. Determining if there is a solution/clear course of action.
5. Implementing the solution with fidelity and integrity.
6. Reflecting on our results.
11-Step Ethical Decision-Making BACB Process - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Clearly
define the issue and consider the potential risk of harm to relevant
individuals.
2. Identify all relevant individuals.
3. Gather relevant supporting documentation and follow-up on second-
hand information to confirm that there is an actual ethical concern.
4. Consider your personal learning history and biases in the context of the
relevant individuals.
5. Identify the relevant core principles and code standards.
6. Consult available resources.
7. Develop several possible actions to reduce or remove the risk of harm,
prioritizing the best interests of clients in accordance with the code and
applicable laws.
,8. Critically evaluate each possible action by considering its alignment with
the "letter and spirit" or the code, its potential outcomes on the client and
stakeholders, the likelihood of it immediately resolving the ethical concern,
and variables such a client preference, social acceptability, de
Four dominant paradigms in clinical ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Virtue ethics,
consequentialism, deontology, and contract theory.
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Virtue Ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Argues that moral excellence, or virtue, is the
proper focus or reflection on ethics and rules for behavior.
Certain behaviors are ethical, "right," or "good" in and of themselves--
regardless of context or outcomes.
Labels behavior as right or wrong based on what the behavior looks like
(the behaviors formal properties)
Ex. Honesty or patience are often considered virtuous behaviors regardless
of the context and what may happen as a result of being honest and
patient.
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, From the virtue ethics perspective, you can label an individual as virtuous if
two conditions are met: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-The virtuous individual tends to
emit behavior consistent with the socially agreed-upon virtuous label (ex.
honesty and generosity).
-The individual's virtuous response should be fluent in their repertoire and
maintained by nonsocial reinforcement.
(page 3)
Virtue - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is a social construct. Behaviors labeled as this can
vary between and within different cultures.
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Consequentalism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Argues that the outcomes of a behavior
determine whether that behavior is right or wrong.
A behavior is deemed ethically appropriate if and only if the behavior
causes "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
We can justify that a certain behavior is ethical by appealing to what
maximizes the good and what minimizes the bad for all relevant parties.
This arose primarily through the work of philosophers Jeremy Bentham,
John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick. These philosophers argued for what
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Three question to asked when presented with an ethical dilemma
(Freeman, LeBlanc, & Martinez-Diaz) - 🧠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 six-step decision-making process for ethical concerns (Rosenburg and
Schwartz) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Identifying if there is an ethical concern.
2. Brainstorming solutions
3. Evaluating solutions
,4. Determining if there is a solution/clear course of action.
5. Implementing the solution with fidelity and integrity.
6. Reflecting on our results.
11-Step Ethical Decision-Making BACB Process - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Clearly
define the issue and consider the potential risk of harm to relevant
individuals.
2. Identify all relevant individuals.
3. Gather relevant supporting documentation and follow-up on second-
hand information to confirm that there is an actual ethical concern.
4. Consider your personal learning history and biases in the context of the
relevant individuals.
5. Identify the relevant core principles and code standards.
6. Consult available resources.
7. Develop several possible actions to reduce or remove the risk of harm,
prioritizing the best interests of clients in accordance with the code and
applicable laws.
,8. Critically evaluate each possible action by considering its alignment with
the "letter and spirit" or the code, its potential outcomes on the client and
stakeholders, the likelihood of it immediately resolving the ethical concern,
and variables such a client preference, social acceptability, de
Four dominant paradigms in clinical ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Virtue ethics,
consequentialism, deontology, and contract theory.
(page 3)
Virtue Ethics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Argues that moral excellence, or virtue, is the
proper focus or reflection on ethics and rules for behavior.
Certain behaviors are ethical, "right," or "good" in and of themselves--
regardless of context or outcomes.
Labels behavior as right or wrong based on what the behavior looks like
(the behaviors formal properties)
Ex. Honesty or patience are often considered virtuous behaviors regardless
of the context and what may happen as a result of being honest and
patient.
(page 3)
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, From the virtue ethics perspective, you can label an individual as virtuous if
two conditions are met: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-The virtuous individual tends to
emit behavior consistent with the socially agreed-upon virtuous label (ex.
honesty and generosity).
-The individual's virtuous response should be fluent in their repertoire and
maintained by nonsocial reinforcement.
(page 3)
Virtue - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is a social construct. Behaviors labeled as this can
vary between and within different cultures.
(page 3)
Consequentalism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Argues that the outcomes of a behavior
determine whether that behavior is right or wrong.
A behavior is deemed ethically appropriate if and only if the behavior
causes "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
We can justify that a certain behavior is ethical by appealing to what
maximizes the good and what minimizes the bad for all relevant parties.
This arose primarily through the work of philosophers Jeremy Bentham,
John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick. These philosophers argued for what
