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#1. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) is working with a client to prepare their child for an upcoming airplane flight. The BCBA employs various behavior analytic interventions, including social stories, to address the child’s anxiety. Despite these efforts, when the family arrives at the airport, the child is still too scared to fly, rendering the intervention unsuccessful in achieving its intended outcome. Based on the seven dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis, which dimension does this intervention primarily lack?
The seven dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis Baer Wolf Risley 1968 serve as criteria for evaluating the quality and integrity of behavior analytic interventions These dimensions define what makes an intervention truly applied behavior analytic Option A Applied This dimension refers to the social significance of the behavior being changed The goal of preparing a child for an airplane flight to reduce fear is a socially significant and important skill for the child and family so this dimension appears to be met in terms of the interventions target Option B Behavioral This dimension requires that the intervention focuses on observable and measurable behavior The childs fear of flying and the preparation for it would involve observable behaviors eg crying refusing to board physiological responses related to anxiety and the goal is to change these behaviors Thus the focus is behavioral Option C Analytic This dimension requires that the intervention demonstrates a functional relation between the intervention independent variable and the behavior change dependent variable While the BCBA attempted to be analytic by implementing behavior analytic interventions the scenario describes the outcome as unsuccessful meaning a functional relation that produced desired change was not established However the primary lack given the direct description of failure points to the outcome rather than the scientific rigor itself though they are related Option D Effective This is the correct answer The dimension of effective requires that an intervention produce significant practical improvements in behavior The text explicitly states that the intervention was unsuccessful and the child was still too scared to fly indicating that the intended meaningful change did not occur If an intervention does not produce the desired practical and meaningful change in behavior it is not considered effective regardless of how welldesigned or systematically implemented it might have been from other perspectives The ultimate goal of ABA is to improve lives and effectiveness is paramount to achieving this goal
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