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| 4.04 Approving Interventions |
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| 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 |
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| The behavior analyst recommends reinforcement rather than punishment whenever possible. If punishment procedures are necessary, the behavior analyst always includes reinforcement procedures for alternate behavior in the program. |
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| 4.06 Avoiding Harmful Reinforcers |
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| 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 undesireably marked deprivation procedures as motivating operations. |
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| 4.07 On-Going Data Collection |
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| 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 |
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| The behavior analyst modifies the program on the basis on data. |
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| 4.09 Program Modifications Consent |
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| 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 |
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| The behavior analyst reviews and appraises the restrictiveness of alternate 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 |
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| The behavior analyst establishes understandable and objective (i.e. measureable) criteria for the termination of the program and describes them to the client or client-surrogate. |
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| 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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| 5.0 The Behavior Analyst As Teacher And/Or Supervisor |
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| The behavior analyst delegates to their employees, supervisees, and research assistants only those reponsibilities that such persons can reasonably be expected to perform competently. |
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| 5.01 Designing Competent Training Programs and Supervised Work Experiences |
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Behavior analysts who are responsible for education and training programs and supervisory activities seek to ensure that the program and supervisory activities:
- are competently designed
- provide the proper experiences
- and meet the requirements for licensure, certification, or other goals for which claims are made by the program or supervisor
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| FK-01 Lawfulness of behavior |
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| FK-02 Selectionsim (phylogenic) |
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This species level occurs across generations or “biological” time, also referred to as natural selection or evolutionary selection, and may be influenced by human intervention (e.g. selective breeding). Specific traits are “selected” by the environment. Organisms that have these traits are more likely to survive and then they reproduce… traits are passed on to new generations… some traits are not passed on and these become extinct. |
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| FK-02 Selectionism (ontogenic) |
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| The selection of individual behavior which occurs within the lifetime of an individual organism. Selection at this level is not passed on to subsequent generations. It is also referred to as “operant selection.” The individual responses are selected by the environment (specific responses are reinforced and the responses which are reinforced persist or survive. Responses that are not reinforced or selected become extinct.) |
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| FK-02 Selectionism (cultural) |
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| Occurs on the social level during one individual’s lifetime. Behavior acquired during one’s lifetime is passed onto others not through phylogenic processes. The consequences of the group or culture (rather than the consequences of the individual) select the responses. This level requires verbal behavior. |
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| The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a “willy-nilly” accidental fashion. There is a cause and effect relationship between phenomena. |
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| The objective observation (independent from prejudices) of the phenomena of interest. |
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| The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations. |
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| Inductive reasoning, drawing general rules based on specific observation. It is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. |
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| An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response. |
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| An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by a specific reinforcement. |
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| An elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by a generalized conditioned reinforcement. |
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| An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus and that does not have point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus. |
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