FBA Flashcards
What are the 3 components of informed consent?
Capacity, Information, Voluntariness
The purpose of conducting a functional assessment is to:
Obtain information of a particular behavior
What is the major assumption we make when conducting an FBA?
Behavior is functional
The major assumption we make when conducting an FBA followed what attitude of science?
Determinism/Lawfulness of Behavior
Systematically manipulating controlling variables is a part of which FBA method?
Functional Analysis
Observing the individual in the natural environment is a part of which FBA method?
Descriptive Assessment
Interviewing the individual and/others who know them best is a part of which FBA method?
Indirect Methods
What predictions do we hope to make about behavior when conducting an FBA?
Both conditions under which behavior is most likely to occur and consequences that maintain behavior
A mosquito be me on the arm. Now it itches! It feels better when I scratch it. Then a minute later it would itch again, so I scratch again?
Negative Reinforcement
What are the three levels of science?
Description, Prediction, Control
Behaviors with different topographies may serve similar functions
True
An FBA is the process of looking at relationships between the environment and behavior. (T/F?)
True
A functional analysis is the least rigorous method of behavior assessment. T/F?
False
The BACB recommends the use of ____________ to learn, maintain and generalize the skills needed to conduct FBAs.
Behavior Skills Training
The goal of a good FBA is to bring ___________ and __________ to otherwise chaotic and confusing situations.
Clarity and Understanding
It is acceptable for practitioners to conduct an FBA independently after attending a two-day workshop on the topic. T/F?
False
Behaviors that directly terminate aversive stimulation are maintained by __________
Automatic Negative Reinforcement
Current FBA research focuses on ____ of the behaviors and no the _______
Function and not the form
Jenny is a surrogate for her sister, Claudia. Claudia’s group home facilitator wants to implement an overcorrection procedure because she keeps dumping out her dresser drawers. Jenny has signed consent for the procedure but Claudia keeps yelling that she doesn’t want to do it when the staff tries to implement it. What is the next step?
They must discontinue the procedure.
Procedure when a neutral stimulus is presented with an unconditioned stimulus until that neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that elicits the conditioned response-
Respondent Conditioning
The process of altering the frequency and/or strength of behavior through consequences
Operant Conditioning
A group of stimulu sharing common elements
Stimulus Class
A group of responses with the same function
Response Class
Statements that describe the occurrence of phenomena under study as a function of specific variables
Functional Relation
Ruling out simple explanations before considering more complex ones
Parsimony
The manipulation of environmental variables
Experimentation
Repeating an experiment under the same conditions
Replication
Practice of objective observation
Empiricism
The lawfulness of behavior
Determinism
MAS stands for what?
Motivation Assessment Scale
The MAS and QABF are two types of:
Behavior Rating Scales
What are the following dimensions of ABA
Applied, behavioral, technological
Respondent behaviors are ______ & _______
Involuntary and unlearned
Operant behaviors are _______ & _________
Voluntary and learned
What are some of the several limitations to indirect methods of assessment?
Poor reliability, subjective, not sufficient enough to identify functional relations
What are some of the strengths to indirect methods of assessment
No risk to individual, structured, useful as initial steps
Is the following a topographical or functional operational definition?
After voiding in the toilet, placing hand on flushing handle, pressing down with enough force that results in water exiting the toilet bowl, then releasing the handle.
Functional
What are the 3 characteristics of a good operational definition:
Clear, objective, complete
The FAI is a rating scale. T/F?
False
Healy, Brett, & Leader (2013) identify what three types of stimuli maintaining problem behavior?
Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and automatic reinforcement
Heather wants to increase a response class of staying in seat and engaging with work materials for a client of hers. Which would be the best measurement procedure to use?
Whole Interval Recording
The three components to informed consent are:
Information, capacity, voluntariness
The recognition that the environment selects behavior avoids the use of
Mentalism
Jessica doesn’t like to eat broccoli and will engage in a number of behaviors to avoid having to eat them, such as throw the bowl on the floor, scream, run away from the table, and cry. These are all related how?
Functional Response Class
Megan is a behavior analyst consultant within a school district and was recently asked to conduct an FBA on a student in the 5th grade. What should she do first?
Conduct indirect assessment
It is recommended that the same assessment tool be used across every client a behavior analyst is assessing so that the behavior analyst becomes familiar with the tool. T/F?
False
According to the BACB and the ethics around functional behavioral assessment in behavior analysis, who is qualified to conduct an FBA?
Graduate student, a BCBA, and a BcABA supervised by a BCBA
Consent must be gained for individual interventions separately. T/F?
True
The experimenter has demonstrated a functional relation.
Analytic
When the behavior change lasts over time, appears in different settings and spreads to other behaviors not directly treated.
Generality
To investigate behaviors of social significance.
Applied
Procedures are clearly described so they can be replicated.
Technological
Behaviors are measurable and improve behavior to a practical degree.
Behavioral
Results are meaningful and improve behavior to a practical degree.
Effective
Behavior change procedures derive from their relevant principles of behavior.
Conceptually Systematic
The practice of objective observation
Empiricism
A truck’s engine was too loud, so Alice slammed the door shut to stop the engine sound. Whenever Alice hears a truck driving close, she slams the door shut so she doesn’t hear the engine.
What is your hypothesized function (and principle) of Alice’s behavior?
Escape (Negative reinforcement)
all stimuli are within view, and the chosen stimulus during each trial is again presented in subsequent trials
Multiple Stimulus with Replacement
stimuli are presented one at a time, and the individual’s response to the stimuli is recorded.
Single Stimulus
All stimuli are within view, and the chosen stimulus during each trial is removed in subsequent trials
Multiple Stimulus Without Replacement
the individual is directed to make a choice of two stimuli, and the individual’s response is recorded
Paired Choice
Gregg doesn’t like music class, and as his class walks to the music room he tears papers off the wall and his teacher brings him back to the classroom instead of letting him go to music. Gregg tears papers off the wall every time he walks to music. What form of reinforcement is maintaining tearing paper behavior?
Social Negative Reinforcement (Avoidance)
Which assessment method answers, “When I see this, I see that”
Descriptive Assessment
An SD signals ___ of reinforcement, and an MO signals ___ of reinforcement.
Availability and effectiveness.
Who, from the professionals listed below, can conduct a direct observation for a descriptive assessment?
Classroom teacher, behavior analyst, paraprofessional. All the above
A correlation indicates there is a causal, functional relation. T/F?
False
A paired choice preference assessment is also known as what?
Forced-Choice
A scatterplot can identify temporal patterns between the behavior and the environment. T/F?
True