Ethics and Professionalism for RBTS

Question 1

Response Cost

Answer 1

Taking away an item or privelege in response to a behavior.
EXAMPLE:
Taking away a token off a token board for throwing a chair.

Question 2

Time Out From Positive Reinforcement

Answer 2

Time out from positive reinforcement involces denying a person the opportunity to receive reinforcement due to the display of a behavior.

EXAMPLE:
Making a child wait to start recess 10 minutes after their class because they called a classmate a bad name.

Question 3

Response Blocking

Answer 3

Physically blocking someone from enaging in a behavior

Example:
Raising your hand to interfere with someone else’s trying to hit you with their fist.

Question 4

General responsibilities

Answer 4

RBT Ethics Code standards covering basic professionalism, competence, discrimination, and multiple relationships

Question 4

Responsibilities in providing behavior technician services

Answer 4

RBT Ethics Code standards covering how to support clients and their families ethically

Question 5

Responsibilities to the BACB and BACB-required supervisor

Answer 5

RBT Ethics Code standards covering compliance with the BACB and supervisors

Question 6

Truthful behavior

Answer 6

Avoiding making false, misleading, or exaggerated statements and keeping accurate records

Question 7

Integrity

Answer 7

Being professional and accountable, providing services within their defined role under close supervision

Question 8

Ethical treatment

Answer 8

Treating others in a way that allows them dignity, respect, and safety

Question 9

Competence

Answer 9

Being able to carry out RBT services accurately

Question 10

Client

Answer 10

Someone who receives behavior services. Sometimes a client can be a group of individuals, like a social skills group.

Question 11

Client’s rights

Answer 11

All rights that benefit the client. This includes human, legal, and the rights relevant to receiving behavior analysis services.

Question 12

Conflict of interest

Answer 12

A mismatch between an RBT’s private and professional life. It may cause a risk to services to a client or other professional relationships.

Question 13

Multiple relationship

Answer 13

Mixing personal and professional relationships with a client, their family member, associate, supervisor, or coworker

Question 14

Dignity

Answer 14

Treating others as worthy, valued, and respected

Question 15

Behavior change

Answer 15

Using ABA strategies to either increase or decrease the display of a targeted behavior

Question 16

Punishment

Answer 16

A stimulus used to decrease an undesirable behavior

Question 17

Intrusive intervention

Answer 17

A procedure or strategy that restricts physical freedom of movement used for the goal of changing a behavior

Question 18

Least intrusive intervention

Answer 18

The level of intervention necessary, reasonable, and humanely appropriate to the client’s needs

Question 19

Confidentiality

Answer 19

Keeping information about a client, their intervention, or any other information about them private

Question 20

Stakeholder

Answer 20

An individual other than the client who is impacted by ABA services, such as a parent, legally authorized representative, employer, teacher, or third-party contractor for services

Question 21

Cultural competence

Answer 21

Process for learning to act in a way that creates conditions to help clients succeed by honoring different cultures and continuing to learn about them. It is also having a positive attitude about cultural differences and respect those from other cultures.

Question 22

Cultural humility

Answer 22

A lifelong process of self-reflection to look for ways to reduce the power imbalance between the client and the clinician. It is also a respect for and lack of superiority toward another person’s background.

Question 23

Cultural responsiveness

Answer 23

Realizing that when working with clients and their families, culture plays a role in how they accept program targets, reinforcers, and interactions

Question 24

Mandated reporter

Answer 24

A person who because of their work role must report suspected abuse and neglect