Part 9

Question 0

What are FBA strategic approaches?

Answer 0

altering antecedents (SDs and MOs), altering consequence variables, teaching alternative behaviors

Question 1

What is determinism?

Answer 1

behaviors are lawfully related to other events in the environment

Question 2

What are default technologies?

Answer 2

increasingly intrusive, coercive, or punishment-based interventions used when others fail

Question 3

What are FBA methods?

Answer 3

functional analysis, descriptive functional behavior assessment, indirect functional assessment

Question 4

What is a functional analysis?

Answer 4

antecedents/consequences are arranged in analogs with (typically) 4 conditions: play (control), demand, escape, attention; results may be undifferentiated

Question 5

What are disadvantages of a functional analysis?

Answer 5

assessment process may strengthen/weaken behaviors; may seem counterintuitive to evoke behaviors; some behaviors may not be amenable to FA; contrived settings may miss functions present in natural environment; time, effort, and professional expertise required to conduct FA and interpret results

Question 6

What is a descriptive FBA?

Answer 6

observation under natural conditions; correlation between behaviors and environmental events may indicate function

Question 7

What are 3 variations of descriptive FBAs?

Answer 7

ABC continuous recording, ABC narrative recording, scatterplots

Question 8

What is ABC continuous recording?

Answer 8

all relevant antecedents and behaviors are recorded

Question 9

What are advantages of ABC continuous recording?

Answer 9

use of precise measures; conducted in natural environment which should give useful information for a subsequent FA

Question 10

What are disadvantages of ABC continuous recording?

Answer 10

correlations may not be apparent; conditional probabilities may need to be calculated, and these can be misleading

Question 11

What is ABC narrative recording?

Answer 11

data collected only when target behavior occurs; recording is open-ended with only relevant events recorded

Question 12

What is the advantage of ABC narrative recording?

Answer 12

less time-consuming than ABC continuous

Question 13

What are disadvantages of ABC narrative recording?

Answer 13

may identify functional relations that do not exist; concerns in recording accuracy as it may become subjective

Question 14

What are scatterplots?

Answer 14

data split into segments, record lots/some/no behavior for each and compare over course of days

Question 15

What is the advantage of scatterplots?

Answer 15

identify periods of time when behaviors occur

Question 16

What are the limitations of scatterplots?

Answer 16

unclear whether temporal patterns are routinely evident; subjective nature of behavior rating scale

Question 17

What are some indirect FBA methods?

Answer 17

structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, questionnaires to obtain information regarding behavior; no direct observation

Question 18

What are advantages of indirect FBAs?

Answer 18

useful for guiding future, more objective assessments; may be seen as convenient

Question 19

What are limitations of indirect FBAs?

Answer 19

informants’ recall may be biased/inaccurate; low/variable IOA

Question 20

What are the 4 steps of an FBA?

Answer 20

1) gather information via indirect/descriptive assessment
2) interpret found information and formulate hypotheses regarding problem behavior
3) test hypotheses using functional analysis
4) develop intervention options based on function of behavior
hypothesis statements should be written in ABC format; brief FAs are possible with one condition per session with contingency reversal; intervention should be functionally-equivalent to problem behavior; antecedent, behavior, or consequence can be altered to address problem behavior function