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Ben Ficociello
Code of Conduct 4.01-4.10 and BACB Tasklist Section III: FK-03-FK-07 and FK-38-FK-42
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Psychology
Graduate
06/02/2015

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4.01 Describing Conditions for Program Success
Definition
The behavior analyst describes to the client or client-surrogate the environmental conditions that are necessary for the program to be effective.
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4.02 Environmental Conditions that Preclude Implementation
Definition
If environmental conditions preclude implementation of a behavior analytic program, the behavior analyst recommends that other professional assistance (i.e., assessment, consultation or therapeutic intervention by other professionals) be sought.
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4.03 Environmental Conditions that Hamper Implementation
Definition
If environmental conditions hamper implementation of the behavior analytic program, the behavior analyst seeks to eliminate the environmental constraints, or identifies in writing the obstacles to doing so.
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4.04 Approving Interventions
Definition
The behavior analyst must obtain the client’s or client-surrogate’s approval in writing of the behavior intervention procedures before implementing them.
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4.05 Reinforcement/Punishment
Definition
The behavior analyst recommends reinforcement rather than punishment whenever possible. If punishment procedures are necessary, the behavior analyst always includes reinforcement procedures for alternative behavior in the program.
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4.06 Avoiding Harmful Reinforcers
Definition
The behavior analyst minimizes the use of items as potential reinforcers that maybe harmful to the long-term health of the client or participant (e.g., cigarettes, sugar or fat-laden food), or that may require undesirably marked deprivation procedures as motivating operations.
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4.07 On-Going Data Collection
Definition
The behavior analyst collects data, or asks the client, client-surrogate, or designated others to collect data needed to assess progress within the program.
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4.08 Program Modifications
Definition
The behavior analyst modifies the program on the basis of data.
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4.09 Program Modifications Consent
Definition
The behavior analyst explains program modifications and the reasons for the modifications to the client or client-surrogate and obtains consent to implement the modifications.
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4.10 Least Restrictive Procedures
Definition
The behavior analyst reviews and appraises the restrictiveness of alternative interventions and always recommends the least restrictive procedures likely to be effective in dealing with a behavior problem.
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4.11 Termination Criteria
Definition
The behavior analyst establishes understandable and objective (i.e., measurable) criteria for the termination of the program and describes them to the client or client-surrogate.
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4.12 Terminating Clients
Definition
The behavior analyst terminates the relationship with the client when the established criteria for termination are attained, as in when a series of planned or revised intervention goals has been completed.
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FK-38: Behavioral Contrast
Definition
a change in the strength of one response that occurs when the rate of reward of a second response, or of the first response under different conditions, is changed.

(Ex) In school, rates of SIB behavior for a student are down. There are several contingencies at school that effectively reduce this behavior. At home, where these contingencies are not being implemented, rates of SIB are very high.
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FK-39: Behavioral Momentum
Definition
the general relation between resistance to change (persistence of behavior) and the rate of reinforcement obtained in a given situation

(ex) Using high-probability commands ["touch your nose; touch your head"] to get a response to a math question posed to a student
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FK-40: Matching Law
Definition
The relative rate of responding on two concurrent schedules of reinforcement equals the relative rate of reinforcement on those two schedules.

(ex) If in your experience, calling your friend on his house phone makes you twice as likely to have him answer, you are likely to call his house number twice as much as you would call his cell phone.
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FK-41: Contingency-shaped behavior
Definition
behavior that is primarily controlled by direct exposures to the contingencies involved

(ex) Using a Blu-Ray player by just pushing the buttons and adjusting what
you push because of the consequences without “paying attention” to what you are doing

(ex)
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FK-42: Rule-governed behavior
Definition
Behavior is primarily controlled by a verbal description of a contingency of reinforcement or punishment

(ex) Using the manual of a Blu-Ray player to learn how to operate it
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FK-03: Determinism
Definition
the universe, or at least that part of it we intend to probe with the methods of science, is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events
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FK-04: Empiricism
Definition
Every effort to understand, predict and improve behavior hinges on the behavior analyst's ability to completely define, systematically observe, and accurately record occurrences and non-occurrences of the behavior of interest
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FK-05: Parsimony
Definition
simple, logical explanations for the phenomena under investigation be ruled out experimentally before more complex or abstract explanations are considered
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FK-06: Pragmatism
Definition
Inductive reasoning, drawing general rules based on specific observation. Based on practical, rather than theoretical, considerations.
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FK-07: Environmental (as opposed to mentalistic) explanations
Definition
Explaining behavior in terms of measurable and observable events; behavior occurs as a function of environmental variables.
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