Behaviour Assessment Causes of behavior

Question 1

What is a contingency?

Answer 1

A dependant and / or temporal rlations between operant behaviour and controlling variables.

Question 2

A dependant and / or temporal rlations between operant behaviour and controlling variables.

Answer 2

A contingency

Question 3

Define function of behaviour?

Answer 3

Refers to the purpose of a behaviour

Question 4

Refers to the purpose of a behaviour

Answer 4

The function of behaviour

Question 5

What does function refer to?

Answer 5

The stimulus that reinforces behaviour

Question 6

The stimulus that reinforces behaviour

Answer 6

What function refers to

Question 7

Waht are the categories of function?

Answer 7

Attention
Escape
Access to tangibles or activities
Sensory stimulation

Question 8

Attention
Escape
Access to tangibles or activities
Sensory stimulation

Answer 8

The catergories of the function of behaviour

Question 9

What are the effects of attention dependant on?

Answer 9

Who delviers the reinforcer
The content of the stimulus e.g. praise , reprimand
NOt all attention is equal

Question 10

What is escape?

Answer 10

Situation in whxih a behaviour allows an individual to get away from or avaiod a particular stimulus.

Question 11

Situation in whxih a behaviour allows an individual to get away from or avaiod a particular stimulus

Answer 11

Escape

Question 12

What type of reinforcement is attention?

Answer 12

positive

Question 13

what of reinforcement is escape?

Answer 13

Negative

Question 14

What type of reinforcement is tangible?

Answer 14

postitive

Question 15

What type of reinforcement is sensory stimulation?

Answer 15

automatic

Question 16

Describe a socially mediated consequence

Answer 16

is one that requires the behaviour of another person in order to access the stimulus

Question 17

is one that requires the behaviour of another person in order to access the stimulus

Answer 17

socially mediated consequence

Question 18

Define a non-socially mediated consequence

Answer 18

is one that the person can access one self (without the help of another person)

Question 19

is one that the person can access one self (without the help of another person)

Answer 19

non-socially mediated consequence

Question 20

Describe the role of antecendent stimuli

Answer 20

Set the occasion for behaviours to occur because they are associated with the availability of reinforcement

Question 21

Set the occasion for behaviours to occur because they are associated with the availability of reinforcement

Answer 21

Antecedents

Question 22

Evoke behaviour

Answer 22

Antecedents

Question 23

What is the process for identifying contengencies referred to?

Answer 23

Functional behaviour Assessement (FBA)

Question 24

Functional behaviour Assessement (FBA)

Answer 24

the process for identifying contengencies

Question 25

What question does FBA’s help us answer?

Answer 25

Why does behaviour occur