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| The behavior analyst adheres to job commitments made to the employing organization |
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| 6.02 Assessing Employee Interactions |
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| The behavior analyst assess the behavior-environment interactions of the employees before designing behavior analytic programs |
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| 6.03 Preparing for Consultation |
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| The behavior analyst implements or consuls on behavior management programs for which the behavior analyst has been adequately prepared |
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| 6.04 Employees’ Interventions |
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| The behavior analyst develops interventions that benefit the employees as well as management |
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| 6.05 Employee Health and Well Being |
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| The behavior analyst develops interventions that enhance the health and well-being of the employees |
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| 6.06 Conflicts with Organizations |
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| If the demands of an organization with which the behavior analysts are affiliated conflict with these Guidelines, behavior analysts clarify the nature of the conflict, make known their commitment to these Guidelines, and to the extent feasible, seek to resolve the conflict in a way that permits the fullest adherence to these Guidelines. |
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| 7.01 Affirming Principles |
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| The behavior analyst upholds and advances the values, ethics, principles, and mission of the field of behavior analysis. Participation in both state and national or international behavior analysis organizations is strongly encouraged. |
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| 7.02 Disseminating Behavior Analysis |
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| The behavior analyst assists the profession in making behavior analysis methodology available to the general public |
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| 7.03 Being Familiar with These Guidelines |
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| Behavior analysts have an obligation to be familiar with these Guidelines, other applicable ethics codes, and their application to the behavior analysts’ work. Lack of awareness or misunderstanding of a conduct standard is not itself a defense to a charge of unethical conduct |
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| 7.04 Discouraging Misrepresentation by Non-Certified Individuals |
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| Behavior analysts discourage non-certified practitioners from misrepresenting that they are certified. |
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| Two stimuli are experienced close together in time and an associated may be formed |
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| FK-33 functional relations |
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| exist when a well-controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (the dependent variable) can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (the independent variable)- and that change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors (confounding variables). |
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| FK-34 conditional discriminations |
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| A discrimination in which the reinforcement of responding during a stimulus depends on, or is conditional upon, other stimuli (e.g. matching-to-sample). The procedure involves four-term contingencies, in that they arrange stimuli in the presence of which different three term contingencies operate. |
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| FK-35 stimulus discrimination |
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| Occurs when different stimuli do not evoke the response controlled by the antecedent stimulus. |
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| FK-36 response generalization |
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| The extent to which a learner emits untrained responses that are functionally equivalent to the trained target behavior. |
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| FK-37 stimulus generalization |
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| When an antecedent stimulus has a history of evoking a response that has been reinforced in its presence, the same type of behavior tends to be evoked by stimuli that share similar physical properties with the controlling antecedent stimulus |
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| FK-38 behavioral contrast |
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| A change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule |
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| FK-39 behavioral momentum |
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| A metaphor to describe a rate of responding and its resistance to change following an alteration in reinforcement conditions |
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| The matching law addresses response allocation to choices available with concurrent schedules of reinforcement. The rate of responding typically is proportional to the rate of reinforcement received from each choice alternative |
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| FK-41 contingency-shaped behavior |
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| Behavior is selected and maintained by controlled, temporally close consequences. |
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| FK-42 rule-governed behavior |
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| Behavior controlled by a rule (i.e. a verbal statement of an antecedent-behavior-consequence contingency). The consequences may be temporally remote or potentially significant. |
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