ASRs Unit 1 Flashcards
What is the main reason to regulate professions (including the practice of behavior analysis)?
Protect individuals from harm
Restrict practice
Eliminate competition
Increase profits
Protect individuals from harm
What is the main goal of ABA practitioners?
Publish results of studies in peer reviewed journals for the benefit of science
Help individuals achieve meaningful outcomes and improve their quality of life
Change the behavior of individuals
Conduct research to discover the basic principles of behavio
Help individuals achieve meaningful outcomes and improve their quality of life
ABA practitioners must provide services that are _______.
Integrated, highly controlled, objective, and standardized
Holistic, interpretative, comprehensive, and generic
Comprehensive, integrated, individualized, and data-based
Comprehensive, integrated, individualized, and data-based
The practice of ABA includes the application of the principles, methods, and procedures derived from the science of behavior analysis to:
Assess and improve socially important human behavior
Validate the principles of operant and respondent learning
Change people
Change the behavior of organism
Assess and improve socially important human behavior
Which of the following is beyond the scope of practice of ABA?
Instructional design
Consultation to individuals and organizations
Implementation of treatment programs
Long-term cognitive-behavioral counseling
Long-term cognitive-behavioral counseling
Professional behavior analysts must do all of the following, except:
Complete a functional analysis on each target behavior
Adhere to the seven dimensions of ABA
Use only research-based practices
Adhere to the ethical code of our profession
Complete a functional analysis on each target behavior
Which of the following document types outline legal standards?
All of these
Service contracts and core assurances
Ethical codes and guidelines
Statutes and rules
Statutes and rules
Rules are related to statutes in that they provide details on the ______ of the statute.
Legislative history
Implementation
Consequences
Legal foundation
Implementation
Professional behavior analysts need NOT be familiar with which of the following types of statutes and rules? Those statutes and rules which _______.
Regulate other professions that may engage in the same, similar, and/or related practices
Apply to one’s own professional practices
Protect the consumers one serves
Relate to the practice of any other profession that may provide a service to one’s client
Relate to the practice of any other profession that may provide a service to one’s client
This process establishes and determines the qualifications of individuals to practice a profession, to be authorized as a service provider for an insurance company or an organization, and/or to be a member of a professional organization. This defines:
Induction
Affiliation
Accreditation
Credentialing
Credentialing
The process of establishing and determining if an organization meets certain specific standards, and may therefore issue credentials or degrees based on acceptable practices, is known as _____.
Accreditation
Affiliation
Supervision
Credentialing
Accreditation
As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), a person is:
Credentialed
Accredited
Licensed
Appointe
Credentialed
All of the following are terms that refer to various ways that professions are formally regulated, except:
Licensure
Verified
Certification
Registration (use of a Registry
Verified
Certification establishes the X competencies a professional must demonstrate to become credentialed; Licensure establishes the Y competencies for a professional to earn the credential.
X = Minimum Y = Maximum
X = Maximum Y = Maximum
X = Maximum Y = Minimum
X = Minimum Y = Minimum
X = Minimum Y = Minimum
Which of the following statements is (or are) true regarding certification? Certification _____.
X = Involves both profession and state
Y = Restricts title
Z = Restricts practice
Both Y and Z
X only
X, Y, and Z
Y only
Y only
Which of the following is considered an advantage of certification in ABA?
It involves only the profession, so is not dependent on political processes within the state
The state certification board has members of various professions
It involves both the state and the profession, so provides protection from outside professions taking over
It involves only the state, so is clear and unambiguous
It involves only the profession, so is not dependent on political processes within the state