Unit 6

Question 1

Section 1.02 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts must only provide services within the boundaries of their education, training, supervised experience, or appropriate professional experience.

Answer 1

Competence

Question 2

The level and trend of behavior between successive data points, created by drawing a straight line from the center of each data point in a given data set to the center of the next data point in the same set.

Answer 2

Data path

Question 3

The variable in an experiment which is measured to determine whether it changes as a result of manipulations of the independent variable.

Answer 3

Dependent variable

Question 4

A data path that shows a decreasing trend in the response measure over time.

Answer 4

Descending baseline

Question 5

Section 1.06 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that BACB analysts must be sensitive to the potential harmful effects of other contacts on their work and on those persons with whom they deal.

Answer 5

Dual relationships and conflicts of interest

Question 6

The outcome of an experiment that demonstrates convincingly a functional relation, or the extent to which a researcher maintains precise control of the independent variable by presenting it, withdrawing it, and/or varying its value.

Answer 6

Experimental control

Question 7

A statement of what the researcher seeks to learn by conducting the experiment.

Answer 7

Experimental question

Question 8

Section 1.07 of the BACB guidelines, which states that analysts do not abuse those over whom they have authority.

Answer 8

Exploitative relationships

Question 9

The degree to which a study’s findings are generalizable to other subjects, settings, or behavior.

Answer 9

External validity

Question 10

Any aspect of the experimental setting, such as lighting or temperature, which must be held constant to prevent unplanned environmental variation.

Answer 10

Extraneous variable

Question 11

A visual representation of the occurrence of behavior over time.

Answer 11

Graph

Question 12

The variable that is systematically manipulated by the researcher in an experiment to see whether changes produce reliable changes to the dependent variable.

Answer 12

Independent variable

Question 13

Section 1.04 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts must be truthful and honest, and must conform to the legal and moral codes of the social and professional community of which they are a member.

Answer 13

Integrity

Question 14

The extent to which an experiment shows convincingly that changes in behavior are a function of the independent variable and not the result of unknown or uncontrolled variables.

Answer 14

Internal validity

Question 15

The value on the vertical axis around which a series of behavioral measures converge.

Answer 15

Level

Question 16

Based on a Cartesian plane, a two-dimensional area formed by the intersection of two perpendicular lines, where any point within the plane represents a specific relation between the two dimensions described by the intersecting lines.

Answer 16

Line graph

Question 17

The average rate of response during a smaller period of time within a larger period for which an overall response rate has been given.

Answer 17

Local response rate

Question 18

The rate of response over a given time period.

Answer 18

Overall response rate

Question 19

Improvements in performance resulting from opportunities to perform a behavior repeatedly so that baseline measures can be obtained.

Answer 19

Practice effects

Question 20

A statement of the anticipated outcome of a presently unknown or future measurement.

Answer 20

Prediction

Question 21

Section 1.05 of the BACB Guidelines; analysts must provide behavioral diagnostic, therapeutic, teaching, research, supervisory, consultative, or other behavior analytic services only in the context of a defined role.

Answer 21

Professional scientific relationships

Question 22

Section 1.03 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts are required to stay current in their specialty area.

Answer 22

Professional development

Question 23

A two-dimensional graph that shows the relative distribution of individual measures in a data set with respect to the variables depicted in the x and y-axis; data points are unconnected.

Answer 23

Scatterplot

Question 24

A two-dimensional graph with a logarithmic scaled y-axis so that equal distances on the vertical axis represent changes in behavior of equal proportion.

Answer 24

Semi-logarithmic chart