Ch3 Flashcards

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What are the criteria for treatment procedure to be included in the library of possible procedures?

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A study must meet rigorous peer-reviewed standards of excellence; a clear demonstration of experimental control must be shown; simple correlations need not apply

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What makes behavior analysis unique?

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Behavior analysis is unique in being the only human services approach to base treatment methods on science; must be a scientific basis for a treatment itself; studies must show clear demonstrations of experimental control; treatments are often carried out by paraprofessionals under supervisors; work happens in real-world settings; some third-party entity has to keep tabs on behavior analyst professionals; evidence-based (data-based) treatment

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What is meant by third-party referral?

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The third-party is the referring person, the person who has made the referral for the client to the provider

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What is the major concern of a third-party referral?

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We need to make sure that the third-party has not made a referral for treatment based on mere convenience; for example, it may be less important to treat an individual for yelling and screaming or trying to run away and more important to determine the cause for these behaviors; myriad complexities that are encountering behavior analyst works for a third-party presents perhaps the most difficult challenges of all, because to denying employer’s request me result in termination

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What is meant by the behavior is not only quite severe but also complex in nature?

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As determinists, we assume that the behavior we see has a causal basis, and we believe that doing a functional analysis will help yield information that will produce valid, ethical treatment; arriving at the point of treatment involves myriad variables that are difficult to assess: medical conditions, maintaining variables, conditioned reinforcers, complex schedules of intermittent reinforcement, establishing operations, discriminative stimuli, setting events

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