What aspects of the behavior change program is a BCBA responsible for? 

Conceptualization, implementation, and discontinuation

(p. 11)

Conceptual Consistency

Refers to behavior analysts designing treatments that are conceptually conistent with behavior analytic pricinples. 

Individualized Behavior Change Programs

 The client's "unique behaviors, environmental variables, assessment results, and goals of each client" should be considered when developing a behavior change program. 

When should program objectives be described?

"The description of program objectives and the means by which they will be accomplished is an ongoing process throughout the duration of the client-practitioner relationship."

Risk benefit analysis 

An analysis that occurs before the start of a behavior change program to determine if the benefits are proportionate to the risks, and to assess if the risks can be decreased. 

What should a behavior analyst do if environmental conditions prevent the effectiveness of behavior change programs? 

 "Recommend that other professional assistance (e.g., assessment, consultation or therapeutic intervention by other professionals) be sought" (p. 12).

What should a behavior analyst do if environmental conditions hinder the effectiveness of a behavior change program 

"Seek to eliminate the environmental constraints, or identify in writing the obstacles to doing so."

What should behavior analysts include if punishment is necessary?

Reinforcement procedures for alternative behaviors.

What should accompany treatment plans that include punishment procedures?

An increased level of training, supervision, and oversight. 

When are behavior change programs discontinued?

Behavior analysts discontinue services with the client when the established criteria for discontinuation are attained, as in when a series of agreed-upon goals have been met. 

What are the verbal operants? 

Mand, Echoic, Tact, Intraverbal

Using echoic training, what would a BCBA say when holding up a puzzle?

"I want the puzzle"

What is necessary for a mand to occur?

Motivating Operation

What reinforcers mand behavior?

Recieving item/action 

What reinforces tact behavior?

Nonspecific social reinforcement

What is necessary for a tact to occur?

Nonverbal stimulus

Point to point correspondence

In point to point correspondence, both the SD and the response must have two or more components. Also, the first component of the stimulus must control the first part of the response, the second part of the stimulus must control the second part of the response, and so on (foxy learning modules)

What is the difference between intraverbal and listener responding behavior? 

The antecedent for both is another persons verbal behavior, however, listener responding does not require a verbal response. Ex. "touch blue" and the child touches the blue train. 

Discrete Trial Teaching

A way of arranging the subject's contact with the independent variable in which the subject cannot respond until the experimenter sets up and begins each trial

Autoclitic 

A unit of verbal behavior that depends on other verbal behavior for its occurrence and that modifies the effects of that other verbal behavior on the listener.