Quiz 5 Flashcards
What two major events occurred in ABA 1968 that mark the beginning of the discipline?
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis began publication; publication of Baer, Wolf, and Risley paper
What was the paper published by Baer, Wolf, and Risley?
Defined the criteria for judging adequacy of research and practice in ABA
What should ABA be?
Applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, capable of generalized outcomes
Why does ABA need to be applied?
Must be committed to improving behaviors that enhance and improve people’s lives
What kind of behaviors must the practitioner select?
Ones that are socially significant
What behavioral aspects does ABA incorporate?
The behavior chosen for change must be the behavior in need of change, and it must be measurable
What does it mean when ABA practice must be data driven?
Not theorizing on how behavior can work but describing how it has worked
What must ABA analysis demonstrate?
A functional relation between manipulated events and a reliable change in the behavior
What technological aspects must ABA have?
Procedures must be described with sufficient detail and clarity
How must ABA procedures be described?
In terms of the principles from which they were derived
How can behavior changes be deemed effective?
They must reach clinical and social significance
When is behavior generalized?
When it lasts over time, appears in different environments than where trained, spreads to other behaviors not directly treated
What events caused the birth of positive behavior supports?
Dissatisfaction with research published in JABA, normalization/inclusion movement, person-centered values
What are critical features of PBS?
Comprehensive lifestyle change and quality of life, ecological validity, social validity, systems change and multicomponent intervention, emphasis on prevention
What is functional assessment?
A set of processes for defining the events in an environment that reliably predict and maintain problem behavior (behavioral excess or deficit)
What does functional assessment allow for the reliable detection of?
Antecedents, behaviors, consequences
What are the five outcomes of functional assessment?
Operational definition of problem behaviors
Collection of direct observation data
Identification of events, times, and situations that predict when the problem behaviors will and will not occur
Identification of the consequences that maintain the problem behaviors
Development of hypotheses
What are three strategies of functional assessment?
Indirect methods, direct observation, functional analysis
What are indirect methods?
Interviewing the people that have direct contact with and knowledge of the individual
What is direct observation?
Collecting functional assessment information by systematically observing the person with problem behavior in typical daily routines
What is functional analysis?
Systematic manipulation of specific variables that are or are not associated with the problem behaviors
What does functional analysis involve?
Manipulation of typical consequences associated with problem behavior
What is play condition?
Free access to reinforcement and attention
What is alone condition?
People are present but provide no activity or attention
