Decision Making Tree

1. Table of Contents
1. Introduction to preference assessments
2. Single stimulus and paired-stimulus preference assessments
3. Paired-stimulus data collection
4. Calculating and interpreting the results of a paired-stimulus
preference assessment
5. Multiple-stimulus without replacement preference assessment
6. Multiple-stimulus without replacement data collection
7. Calculating and interpreting the results of a multiple stimulus
without replacement preference assessment
8. Free-operant preference assessment
9. Free-operant data collection
10. Calculating and interpreting the results of a free-operant
preference assessment
11. Decision making tree
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2. Table of Contents
11. Decision making tree
a) 3.01 Behavior-Analytic Assessment
b) Decision making tree

3. Professional and Ethical Compliance Code for
Behavior Analysts

4. Following the ethical compliance code
• Choosing the right assessment to conduct based on your
client’s needs is important in order to get more accurate
results.
• Scenario:
• Joel, the BCBA, wants his RBT to conduct a preference assessment. In order to
abide by the code, Joel takes his client’s needs into account to choose the right
preference assessment. To make his choice easier, he uses a decision making tree.

5. Now get ready to answer a few checkpoint
questions!