Behaviour Assessment Causes of behavior Flashcards
What is a contingency?
A dependant and / or temporal rlations between operant behaviour and controlling variables.
A dependant and / or temporal rlations between operant behaviour and controlling variables.
A contingency
Define function of behaviour?
Refers to the purpose of a behaviour
Refers to the purpose of a behaviour
The function of behaviour
What does function refer to?
The stimulus that reinforces behaviour
The stimulus that reinforces behaviour
What function refers to
Waht are the categories of function?
Attention
Escape
Access to tangibles or activities
Sensory stimulation
Attention
Escape
Access to tangibles or activities
Sensory stimulation
The catergories of the function of behaviour
What are the effects of attention dependant on?
Who delviers the reinforcer
The content of the stimulus e.g. praise , reprimand
NOt all attention is equal
What is escape?
Situation in whxih a behaviour allows an individual to get away from or avaiod a particular stimulus.
Situation in whxih a behaviour allows an individual to get away from or avaiod a particular stimulus
Escape
What type of reinforcement is attention?
positive
what of reinforcement is escape?
Negative
What type of reinforcement is tangible?
postitive
What type of reinforcement is sensory stimulation?
automatic
Describe a socially mediated consequence
is one that requires the behaviour of another person in order to access the stimulus
is one that requires the behaviour of another person in order to access the stimulus
socially mediated consequence
Define a non-socially mediated consequence
is one that the person can access one self (without the help of another person)
is one that the person can access one self (without the help of another person)
non-socially mediated consequence
Describe the role of antecendent stimuli
Set the occasion for behaviours to occur because they are associated with the availability of reinforcement
Set the occasion for behaviours to occur because they are associated with the availability of reinforcement
Antecedents
Evoke behaviour
Antecedents
What is the process for identifying contengencies referred to?
Functional behaviour Assessement (FBA)
Functional behaviour Assessement (FBA)
the process for identifying contengencies
What question does FBA’s help us answer?
Why does behaviour occur
