You are driving to work and running late for your morning meeting. Is it acceptable to exceed the speed limit to make sure you are on time? On the way, you stop quickly at the local mini-mart for a soda. The only soda available is from a company that obtains ingredients through massive deforestation within ecologically critical rainforests. Do you buy this bottle of soda? Hurrying in the door to try to be on time, you accidentally bump a folder out of another person’s hand. Do you stop and help the person pick up the pages scattered on the floor?
With everything you have to do to get through a typical day, and with all of the movement, interactions, and basic communicating you perform with others throughout the day, you can often lose track of those around you and not consider how your actions might be affecting them. Different decisions you make in response to a situation or scenario will have different ethical ramifications.
For this Discussion, you will consider an ethical situation in everyday life and how it impacted you.
To Prepare
- Review the Learning Resources for this week, including the required weekly media programs, to develop an understanding of personal and professional ethics. Note: It is critical for you to review all media for this week prior to completing this Discussion.
- Consider everyday situations in which ethics are involved and how you might be impacted.
Resources
- Bailey, J. S., & Burch, M. R. (2022). Ethics for behavior analysts (4th ed.). Routledge.
- Chapter 1, “How We Got Here” (pp. 3–14)
- Chapter 2, “Changes to the 2022 Ethics Code” (pp. 15–28)
- Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied behavior analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson.
- Chapter 31, “Ethical Considerations for Applied Behavior Analysts” (pp. 758–784)
- American Psychological Association. (2017). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conductLinks to an external site.: Including 2010 and 2016 amendments . https://www.apa.org/ethics/code
- Association for Behavior Analysis International. (n.d.). Position statements and policiesLinks to an external site.. https://www.abainternational.org/about-us/policies...
Note: On this webpage, read the “Code of Ethics” section. - Behavior Analysis Certification Board. (2020). Ethics code for behavior analysts Download Ethics code for behavior analysts. https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Et...
Credit Line: Behavior Analyst Certification Board. (2020). Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts. Retrieved from https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Et... - Schreck, K. A., & Miller, V. A. (2010). How to behave ethically in a world of fadsLinks to an external site.. Behavioral Interventions, 25 (4), 307–324. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.305