SPCE 619 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+RECENT VERSION

SPCE 619 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+RECENT VERSION 1) Supervisee - answer is any individual whose behavior-analytic services are overseen by a behavior analyst within the context of a defined, agreed-upon relationship. 2) Accepting responsibility - answer one of the core principles. We have an awesome responsibility in designing behavior change programs. We have to take responsibility when treatments do not work 3) According dignity - answer one of the core principles, we treat clients with respect and respect their wishes 4) Analytic - answer demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior—that is, if a functional relation is demonstrated. 5) Antecedent - answer environmental events that occur before a behavior 6) Applied - answer investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject(s). 7) Applied behavior analysis - answer is the science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change. 8) Aversive procedures - answer an unpleasant or noxious stimulus, more technically, a stimulus change or condition that fuctions to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past, as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or as a reinforce when withdrawn following behavior 9) Bacb task list - answer task list for skills that are common behavior analytic tasks that will be tested on the bacb exam 10) Bcaba - - answer conducts assessments and can interpret results and design ethical treatment for situations and scenarios that are similar to what they encountered in supervised field work. All bcaba's must receive supervision at least 1 hour per month by a bcba in order to maintain their credential (as of august 2010). 11) Behavior analysis certification board (bacb) - answer certification board for behavior analysts, the bacb certification procedures and content undergo regular psychometric review and validation, pursuant to a job analysis survey of the profession and standards established by content experts in the field. 12) Behavior analysts - answer refers to individual who holds the bcba or bcaba credential, an individual authorized by the bacb to provide supervision, or a coordinator of a bacb approved course sequences. Where code elements are deemed relevant to the practice of an rbt, the term "behavior analyst" includes the behavior technician. 13) Behavior change program - answer the behavior-change program is a formal, written document that describes in technological detail every assessment and treatment task necessary to achieve stated goals. 14) Behavior-analytic services - answer services that are explicitly based on principles and procedures of behavior analysis (i.e., the science of behavior) and are designed to change behavior in socially important ways. These services include, but are not limited to, treatment, assessment, training, consultation, managing and supervising others, teaching, and delivering continuing education. 15) Behavioral - answer entails precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement and documents that it was the subject's behavior that changed. 16) Behavioral treatment - answer 1) an individual has a right to a therapeutic environment 2) an individual has a right to services whose overriding goal is personal welfare 3) an individual has a right to treatment by a competent behavior analyst 4) an individual has a right to programs that teach functional skills 5) an individual has a right to behavioral assessment and ongoing evaluation and 6) an individual has the right to the most effective treatment procedures available. 17) Being just - answer one of the core principles, means that you should treat others as you would like to be treated 18) Being truthful - answer one of the core principles, we should be dependable and reliable sources of wise counsel and effective, ethical treatment 19) Benefitting others - answer one of the core principles, primary role of behavior analysts is to benefit others in whatever setting or situation they are in, can put behavior analysts at odds with other professionals 20) Board certified behavior analysts (bcba) - answer board certified behavior analyst, indpendent practitioner that may work independently or through an agency. The bcba conducts descriptive assessment, functional analysis and provides behavior analytic servces. Often serve as consultants. Bcba's the only individuals' qualified to oversee bcaba staff according to the behavior 21) Client - answer refers any recipient or beneficiary of the professional the term includes, but not limited to (a) the direct recipient of services; b) the parent, as well as others 22) Conceptually systematic - answer behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior. 23) Confidentiality - answer describes a situation of trust insofar as any in-formation regarding a person receiving or having received services may not be discussed with or otherwise made available to another person or group, unless that person has provided explicit authorization for release of such information. 24) Conflict of interest - answer a situation in which a person in a position of responsibility or trust has competing professional or personal interests that make it difficult to fulfill his or her duties impartially. 25) Consent to release information - answer signed document necessary before information can be released to other individuals or agencies 26) Consequence - answer environmental events that occur after a behavior, these may be planned events (such as a time out when a child tantrums in a store) or unplanned events (items on shelf all over store floor) that may have an impact on maintaining a particular behavior of concern. Consequences are not only "negative" in nature. In the field of aba, the term consequence also includes "positive" responses to a behavior, that occur after the behavior. 27) Control - answer results of experiments that show that specific manipulations of one event (the independent variable) produce a reliable change in another event (the dependent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely the result of extraneous factors (confounding variables 28) Correlation - answer the systematic coexistance between two events can be used to predict the relative probability of one event occurring based on the presence of another event. 29) Crisis management procedures - answer procedures to deal with crisis that are required by law in clinics or schools. Can involve crisis management training like pcma or cpi 30) Data safeguards - answer security procedures for data that are mandatory for keeping client data safe like locking up confidential files or having secure systems to keep online 31) Description - answer consist of a collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, or examined for possible relations with other known facts. 32) Determinism - answer the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occurs as the result of other events. 33) Disclosure - answer behavior analysts never disclose confidential information without the consent of the client, except as mandated by law, or where permitted by law for a valid purpose, behavior analysts recognize that parameters of consent for disclosure should be acquired at the outset of any defined relationship and is an ongoing procedure throughout the duration of the professional relationship. 34) Do no harm - answer one of the core ethical principles; means to follow a system of regimen in which according to one's ability and judgment, consider what's beneficial for one's patients, or to help or to at least do no harm 35) Dual relations - answer any interaction other than the client‐professional relationship. 36) Effective - answer improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the participant/client. 37) Empiricism - answer the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest. 38) Establishing operation (eo) - answer a motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer. For example, food deprivation makes food an effective reinforcer. 39) Ethics - answer refers to behaviors, practices, and decisions that address such basic and fundamental questions as what is the right thing to do? What's worth doing? What does it mean to be a good behavior analytic practitioner?