FCT Flashcards
Who developed FCT?
Carr and Durrant (1985)
What research brought about FCT?
Is a practice that came from the research on functional behavioral assessment (FBA).
What is a Back Up Reinforcer?
A object or event that already has demeonstrated its reinforcing function for the behavior of an individual. It is distributed in exchange for a specific number of exchangeable reinforcers.
What is an interfering behavior?
A behavior that prevents the learner from learning key social, communication, and academic skills.
What is another name for “interfering behavior”?
Target behavior
Why do we use FCT?
To teach a new, communicative behavior that replaces the interfering behavior.
What are the goals of a Functional Assessment (FA)?
1) Figure out what purpose a behavior serves for an individual. 2) Identify the situations that evoke (or cause) behavior. 3)Identify the consequences that maintain behavior
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment?
A tool used to determine the purpose of the behavior that is interfering with a learners’ growth and development.
Prior to implementing FCT it is imperative to have
completed a functional behavioral assessment.
What are socially reinforced functions of behavior?
1) Wanting attention (social). 2) Wanting access to something (tangible).
What are negatively reinforced functions of behavior?
1) Wanting to get out of something (escape). 2) Wanting to avoid something, like not getting off the floor. (avoidance)
Bsseline FCT data is collected:
Prior to teaching and during the FBA process.
To encourage generalization, teachers should:
Encourage the learner to practice with multiple communicative partners
Teachers should punish the learner for engaging in the interfering behavior?
FALSE
During the beginning stages of FCT, how should reinforcement be provided when the learner uses the replacement communicative act?
Quickly and consistently
With the goals of Errorless teaching, teachers should use
The prompt that guarantees that the learner will use the replacement communicative act.
What does the IISCA process involve?
1) Structured observations. 2) Open-ended interview. 3) Synthesized analysis. 4) Combined contingencies.
It is important to gradually________ the time between the communicative act and the delivery of the reinforcement.
Increase
What traditional methods does an IISCA NOT involve:
1) Descriptive assessments 2) Close-ended assessments (FAST, MAS, QABF) 3) Standard functional analysis
Functional Communication Training is:
A strategy that teaches individuals ways to functionally communicate to compete with challenging behaviors evoked by EOs.
What are automatic reinforced functions of behavior?
1) Liking the way something feels (sensory).
What are automatic negative reinforcement functions of behavior?
1) a behavior takes away an unpleasant feeling, like scratching in insect bite (pain attenuation).
Synthesized analysis is called what by Hanley?
IISCA
What is the Open-Ended Interview in an IISCA?
1) help determine what factors are contributing to challenging behaviors. 2) Talk to someone who knows and has seen the behavior. 3) Asks specific questions regarding what triggers behavior. 4) Used for Structured Observation and the IISCA.
Task Analysis for Practical Functional Assessment?
1) Describe the problem behavior & their precursors 2) Describe reinforcers to be synthesized. 3) Describe the synthesized Establishing Operation (events at the beginning of the test session. 4) Based on #2 & #3 above, describe your IISCA.
Functional Communication Response (FCR) training:
1) Create situation for behavior to occur 2) At the first sign of any precursor behavior 3) Prompt communication (FCR) 4) Provide what was asked for (reinforcement)
Delay & Tolerance (accepting disappointment) training:
1) Create situation for behavior to occur. 2) At the first sign of ANY “frustration” behavior. 3) Communication (FCR). “No, that’s not possible right now” 4) Prompt “ok” (acceptance). 5) Provide what was asked for (reinforcement)
CBPD vs. TBPD
Contingency-based Progressive Delays (CBPD) 1. Delay based on a response requirement 2. “Waiting” ended after a task was completed Time-based Progressive Delays (TBPD) 1. Delay based on time alone. 2. “waiting” ended when time expired.
