BCBA Exam Ethics Questions With
Correct Answers
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-BEHAVIORS, PRACTICES, and DECISIONS that
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address 3 fundamental questions that guide how you conduct yourself to help
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others improve their physical, social, psychological, familial, or personal condition
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Question: Why is Ethics Important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-To further the
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welfare of the client| | |
3 Fundamental Questions of Ethical Practice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. What is
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the right thing to do?
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2. What is worth doing?
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3. What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst?
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1. What is the right thing to do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Considerations related
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to cultural practices: what may be acceptable in one culture is not in another
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-Differences across time: what may have been acceptable 20 years ago is not
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today
,Things to Help You Guide the Decision-Making Process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
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Professional Training and Experience
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-Your training should influence the methods you use. The decision to opt for
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Method A (e.g., differential reinforcement) or Method B (e.g., overcorrection)
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should be based on your clinical training, not your personal history
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-Your training as a behavior analyst should ALWAYS OVERRIDE your personal
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history.
2. Personal History
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-A personal history is your individual cultural, religious, or social background. It
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should not influence your clinical decisions.
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-Recognize that your personal history may lead to inappropriate solutions (e.g., if
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a person was raised in a family that believed in "spare the rod, spoil the child",
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that person may tend to be harsh with children)
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-If you recognize that your personal history is impacting your clinical decision-
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making, get help from supervisors, colleagues, and research. If you cannot get the
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|help or change your behavior, excuse yourself from the case.
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3. The Context of Practice
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-Refers to where you practice and the specific nature of job (e.g., at home, at
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school, etc.) |
-Determines what is legal vs. illegal, ethical vs. unethical
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,Question: What is Legal, but Unethical? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Breaking a
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professional confidence. |
2. Accepting valued heirlooms in lieu of payment.
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3. Engaging in consensual sex with a client over the age of 18.
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Question: What is Both Illegal and Unethical? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
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Misrepresenting promised services or skills. | | | |
2. Stealing a client's belongings.
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3. Abusing a client physically, emotionally, financially, socially, or sexually.
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4. Engaging in consensual sexual relations with persons under age 18.
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Question: What are Ethical Codes of Behavior? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Guidelines that specify what IS a violation.
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-Guidelines for deciding a course of action or conducting professional duties.
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-Guidelines to help to discriminate between legal and ethical distinctions making
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us more likely to:
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| -provide effective services
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, | -maintain sensitivity towards clients
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| -not break the law or our professional
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| standards of conduct | |
2. What is Worth Doing? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Addresses the goals and
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objectives of practice and forces us to ask the questions:
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| 1. What are we trying to accomplish?
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| 2. How are we trying to accomplish it?
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| 3. Is the objective socially valid?
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| 4. What is the risk-benefit ratio?
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Social Validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--When the results show meaningful,
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significant, and sustainable change. | | |
-When the goals, procedures, and results of an intervention are socially
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acceptable to the client, the behavior analyst, and society.
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-Not every skill has social validity (ex. teaching an adult with developmental
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disabilities to play with children's coloring books is not socially valid.
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2 Ways to Assess Social Validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Social Comparison:
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| -Comparison of the performance of clients | | | | | |
| exposed to the intervention with an
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| equivalent or "typically developing" group.
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Correct Answers
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-BEHAVIORS, PRACTICES, and DECISIONS that
| | | | | | | |
address 3 fundamental questions that guide how you conduct yourself to help
| | | | | | | | | | | |
others improve their physical, social, psychological, familial, or personal condition
| | | | | | | | |
Question: Why is Ethics Important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-To further the
| | | | | | | | | |
welfare of the client| | |
3 Fundamental Questions of Ethical Practice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. What is
| | | | | | | | | | |
the right thing to do?
| | | |
2. What is worth doing?
| | | |
3. What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst?
| | | | | | | | | |
1. What is the right thing to do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Considerations related
| | | | | | | | | | | |
to cultural practices: what may be acceptable in one culture is not in another
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
-Differences across time: what may have been acceptable 20 years ago is not
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
today
,Things to Help You Guide the Decision-Making Process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
| | | | | | | | | |
Professional Training and Experience
| | | |
-Your training should influence the methods you use. The decision to opt for
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Method A (e.g., differential reinforcement) or Method B (e.g., overcorrection)
| | | | | | | | | |
should be based on your clinical training, not your personal history
| | | | | | | | | |
-Your training as a behavior analyst should ALWAYS OVERRIDE your personal
| | | | | | | | | | |
history.
2. Personal History
| |
-A personal history is your individual cultural, religious, or social background. It
| | | | | | | | | | | |
should not influence your clinical decisions.
| | | | |
-Recognize that your personal history may lead to inappropriate solutions (e.g., if
| | | | | | | | | | | |
a person was raised in a family that believed in "spare the rod, spoil the child",
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
that person may tend to be harsh with children)
| | | | | | | |
-If you recognize that your personal history is impacting your clinical decision-
| | | | | | | | | | |
making, get help from supervisors, colleagues, and research. If you cannot get the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
|help or change your behavior, excuse yourself from the case.
| | | | | | | | |
3. The Context of Practice
| | | |
-Refers to where you practice and the specific nature of job (e.g., at home, at
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
school, etc.) |
-Determines what is legal vs. illegal, ethical vs. unethical
| | | | | | | |
,Question: What is Legal, but Unethical? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Breaking a
| | | | | | | | | | |
professional confidence. |
2. Accepting valued heirlooms in lieu of payment.
| | | | | | |
3. Engaging in consensual sex with a client over the age of 18.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Question: What is Both Illegal and Unethical? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
| | | | | | | | | |
Misrepresenting promised services or skills. | | | |
2. Stealing a client's belongings.
| | | |
3. Abusing a client physically, emotionally, financially, socially, or sexually.
| | | | | | | | |
4. Engaging in consensual sexual relations with persons under age 18.
| | | | | | | | | |
Question: What are Ethical Codes of Behavior? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
| | | | | | | | |
Guidelines that specify what IS a violation.
| | | | | |
-Guidelines for deciding a course of action or conducting professional duties.
| | | | | | | | | |
-Guidelines to help to discriminate between legal and ethical distinctions making
| | | | | | | | | | |
us more likely to:
| | |
| -provide effective services
| |
, | -maintain sensitivity towards clients
| | |
| -not break the law or our professional
| | | | | | |
| standards of conduct | |
2. What is Worth Doing? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Addresses the goals and
| | | | | | | | | | |
objectives of practice and forces us to ask the questions:
| | | | | | | | |
| 1. What are we trying to accomplish?
| | | | | |
| 2. How are we trying to accomplish it?
| | | | | | |
| 3. Is the objective socially valid?
| | | | |
| 4. What is the risk-benefit ratio?
| | | | |
Social Validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--When the results show meaningful,
| | | | | | | | |
significant, and sustainable change. | | |
-When the goals, procedures, and results of an intervention are socially
| | | | | | | | | | |
acceptable to the client, the behavior analyst, and society.
| | | | | | | | |
-Not every skill has social validity (ex. teaching an adult with developmental
| | | | | | | | | | | |
disabilities to play with children's coloring books is not socially valid.
| | | | | | | | | |
2 Ways to Assess Social Validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Social Comparison:
| | | | | | | | | |
| -Comparison of the performance of clients | | | | | |
| exposed to the intervention with an
| | | | | |
| equivalent or "typically developing" group.
| | | |
