Standard Eight: Promoting Equity
Behavior Analysts shall recognize behavioral mechanisms that contribute to societal inequities and use evidence-based strategies to promote equity in their practice.*
*Standard 8 was added by the authors of this Toolkit and was not an original standard outlined by Fong & Tanaka (2013)
Course Learning Objective #1
Explain the potential roles of respondent learning, operant learning, and derived relational responding on the development of bias, prejudice, and discrimination. Identify evidence-based strategies for reducing bias and discriminatory behavior.
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Basic Principles of Behavior Analysis
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B.3 Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning.
B.14 Identify and distinguish between stimulus and response generalization.
B.18 Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior.
B.21 Identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance.
G.1 Design and evaluate positive and negative reinforcement procedures.
G.6 Design and evaluate procedures to produce simple and conditional discriminations.
G.19 Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance. -
Course Learning Objective #2
Describe how historical and current individual and cultural-level contingencies contribute to societal inequities. Identify ways applied behavior analysis professionals can help to decrease social inequities and the harm resulting from inequities.
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Basic Principles of Behavior Analysis
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B. Concepts and Principles
C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation
D.9 Apply single-case experimental designs
G. Behavior-Change Procedures -
Course Learning Objective #3
Identify variables that contribute to disparities in behavior analysts' primary areas of practice (i.e., healthcare and education). Discuss empirically supported strategies for reducing disparities and propose ways that applied behavior analysis professionals can directly address disparities in healthcare and education in their practice.
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Basic Principles of Behavior Analysis; Organizational Behavior Management
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B. Concepts and Principles
C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation
D.9 Apply single-case experimental designs
G. Behavior-Change Procedures -
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