Practice: Discriminating Types of Social Validity Flashcards
You are a school district BCBA who has been asked to help with a student who is not making any friends. You observe that the child sometimes spits at peers. You ask the teacher if she would agree that decreasing spitting is the priority for helping the child to make friends.
Which type of social validity does this question represent?
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You are a school district BCBA who has been asked to help with a student who is not making any friends. You observe that the child sometimes spits at peers. Together, you and the teacher develop an intervention that includes a DRI component to reduce spitting. After the first week, you ask the teacher, “Does using the DRI strategy interfere with your ability to meet the needs of your other students?”
Which type of social validity does this question represent?
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You are a school district BCBA who has been asked to help with a student who is not making any friends. You observe that the child sometimes spits at peers. Together, you and the teacher develop an intervention that includes a DRI component to reduce spitting. After about a month, you ask the teacher, “Does the student seem to be developing any friendships with their peers?”
Which type of social validity does this question represent?
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You are a BCBA who just took a job working for an ABA company in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The company hired you because you have a diverse background in Staff Performance and Organizational Behavior Management. They want you to develop a staff training sequence. Since you are new to Sao Paulo and Brazil overall, you decide that you are going to survey the various staff members and ask them, “What skills do you use the most?” and “What skills do you wish you had?”
Which type of social validity best fits with this question?
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You are a BCBA-D who has decided to implement some sweeping clinical standard and supervision changes for your company. Initially, the BCBAs who work at your company were upset and complained a lot about the changes you made. However, after about three months of these changes being implemented, you ask your BCBAs, “After implementing the new clinical standards have you noticed an improvement in the performance of your clients?”
Which type of social validity best fits with this question?
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You are a BCBA-D who has decided to implement some sweeping clinical standard and supervision changes for your company. Initially, the BCBAs who work at your company were upset and complained about the changes that you made. However, after about three months of these changes being implemented, you ask the BCBAs, “Would you recommend some of the clinical standards to other colleagues”? and “Do you have a recommendation that would improve the clinical standards?”
Which type of social validity best fits with these questions?
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You are a BCBA hired by a State Supportive Living Center to address workplace safety. Three months after your intervention, you asked management if they still have concerns with the staff members’ safety levels after your intervention.
Which type of social validity best fits with this question?
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You are a BCBA who just took a job working for a university-affiliated ABA center. The center hired you because you have a diverse background in Staff Performance and Organizational Behavior Management. They want you to develop training to increase the emotional reciprocity levels with which BCBAs engage with the clients’ families. After conducting several training sessions with the center BCBAs, you asked them if they think the strategies that they learned for increasing emotional reciprocity should be implemented across their case loads?
Since the goal of the training is to increase emotional reciprocity, which type of social validity best fits with this question?
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You are a BCBA who is asked to decrease the tardiness of the staff. You decide that the first thing you will do is to ask management and the other BCBAs how staff arriving late affects them and potentially the clients.
Which type of social validity fits best with such questions?
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You are a BCBA who is asked to decrease the tardiness of the staff. You decide to implement a raffle that each time a staff members arrives on time they get a raffle ticket. After a few months, you ask the staff members, “Do you enjoy the raffle?” and “Do you think the raffle motivates you to be punctual?”
Which type of social validity fits best with such questions?
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