Assessment Flashcards
Analog or Functional Analysis Assessment
This is when a Behavior Analyst manipulates the environment to determine the function of the behavior.
Antecedent Behavior Consequence Data Collection (ABC)
This is a type of data collection in which you record what happened before the behavior occurred (antecedent), record what the behavior looked like (behavior) and record the what happened immediately after the behavior (consequence).
Baseline
Finding out where a client’s skills or behaviors are before beginning therapy. Before beginning to teach a new skill, a baseline probe should be conducted in order to identify whether the learner already has the skill.
Curriculum-Based Assessment
Curriculum-based assessment (CBA) and curriculum-based measurement (CBM) are the repeated, direct assessment of targeted skills in basic areas, such as math, reading, writing, and spelling.
Daily Living Skills
These are skills that people use every day to function. They include personal hygiene and grooming, dressing and undressing, meal preparation and eating, moving around the community, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, and safety skills.
Direct FBA Procedures
Part of an FBA will include direct observations and skill assessments. These procedures involve observing the client and recording what is seen.
Free Operant Preference Assessment
The therapist does not interact with the client. The therapist observes which items the client interacts with and records the time spent with the item.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
A functional behavior assessment is a set of procedures used to determine why someone is engaging in maladaptive behavior.
Multiple Stimulus Preference Assessment with Replacement
The therapist presents multiple items at a time and records which item the client chooses to interact with. Once the item is chosen the therapist places it back into the mix of multiple items.
Indirect FBA Procedures
Part of an FBA may include record reviews, interviews, and rating scales. There is very little contact with the client.
Multiple Stimulus Preference Assessment without Replacement
The therapist presents multiple items at a time and records which item the client chooses to interact with. Allow the client to interact with the item for 30 seconds. Once an item is chosen the therapist does not place it back into the array.
Paired Choice Preference Assessment (Forced Choice Preference Assessment)
The therapist presents 2 items to the client and records which item the client chooses.
Preference Assessment
A set of procedures used to determine if one or more stimuli may function to increase the rate of a specific behavior or behaviors when delivered following the occurrence of that behavior.
Single Item Preference Assessment
The therapist simply presents one item after another. The therapist records whether the client consumed/interacted with the item, made no response to the item, or avoided the item.
Skill Assessments
Determine where a client’s skills are. They typically assess areas such as social skills, coping skills, self-help skills, language skills, learning skills, daily living skills, communications skills.
Social Skills
Skills used to communicate and interact with people. Social skills include verbal and non-verbal communication, body language and personal appearance.
Backwards Chaining
Training begins the link with the last behavior in the sequence.
Behavior Chain
A sequence of behaviors that must be performed correctly.
Conditioned Reinforcers (add unconditional and continuous)
The effectiveness of the reinforcer is dependent on the learning history. Things that differ from one person to another, such as music, specific types of food, electronics. Also known as secondary reinforcers.
Discriminative Stimuli (SD)
A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will be reinforced.
