Chapter 24 Functional Behaviour Assessment Flashcards
__________ ________ ___________ enables hypotheses about the relations among specific types of environmental events and behaviors.
Functional behavior assessment (FBA)
Behaviors can be strengthened by either “________ _________” or “_______ ___ __ __________.”
Getting something or getting out of something
FBA interventions can consist of at least three strategic approaches:
Altering antecedent variables,
Altering consequent variables, and
Teaching alternative behaviors.
_________ ______ ________ can identify antecedent variables that can be altered to prevent problem behavior
Altering antecedent variables,
_________ ______ ________ can identify reinforcement contingencies that can be altered so that problem behavior no longer receives reinforcement,
Altering consequent variable
_________ ______ ________ can help identify reinforcers for alternative replacement behaviors.
Teaching alternative behaviors.
FBA can decrease reliance on _______ ____________ and contribute to more effective interventions in several ways
Default technologies
Caregivers might resort to increasingly intrusive, coercive, or punishment-based interventions, which are often referred to as
Default technologies
FBA methods can be classified into three types:
(a) functional (experimental) analysis,
(b) descriptive assessment, and
(c) indirect assessment.
___________ ___________is the only FBA method that allows practitioners to confirm hypotheses regarding functional relations between problem behavior and environmental events.
Functional analysis
Functional analysis involves :
Systematically manipulating environmental events thought to maintain problem behavior within an experimental design.
The primary advantage of functional analysis is its:
Ability to yield a clear demonstration of the variable(s) that relate to the occurrence of a problem behavior.
in an functional analysis graph, If problem behavior occurs frequently in all conditions (including the play condition), or is variable across conditions, responding is considered ____________
Undifferentiated
Descriptive functional behavior assessment encompasses
Direct observation of behavior;
Three variations of descriptive analysis:
ABC (antecedent- behavior-consequence) continuous recording,
ABC narrative recording, and
Scatterplots.