Quiz 5

Question 1

What two major events occurred in ABA 1968 that mark the beginning of the discipline?

Answer 1

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis began publication; publication of Baer, Wolf, and Risley paper

Question 2

What was the paper published by Baer, Wolf, and Risley?

Answer 2

Defined the criteria for judging adequacy of research and practice in ABA

Question 3

What should ABA be?

Answer 3

Applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, capable of generalized outcomes

Question 4

Why does ABA need to be applied?

Answer 4

Must be committed to improving behaviors that enhance and improve people’s lives

Question 5

What kind of behaviors must the practitioner select?

Answer 5

Ones that are socially significant

Question 6

What behavioral aspects does ABA incorporate?

Answer 6

The behavior chosen for change must be the behavior in need of change, and it must be measurable

Question 7

What does it mean when ABA practice must be data driven?

Answer 7

Not theorizing on how behavior can work but describing how it has worked

Question 8

What must ABA analysis demonstrate?

Answer 8

A functional relation between manipulated events and a reliable change in the behavior

Question 9

What technological aspects must ABA have?

Answer 9

Procedures must be described with sufficient detail and clarity

Question 10

How must ABA procedures be described?

Answer 10

In terms of the principles from which they were derived

Question 11

How can behavior changes be deemed effective?

Answer 11

They must reach clinical and social significance

Question 12

When is behavior generalized?

Answer 12

When it lasts over time, appears in different environments than where trained, spreads to other behaviors not directly treated

Question 13

What events caused the birth of positive behavior supports?

Answer 13

Dissatisfaction with research published in JABA, normalization/inclusion movement, person-centered values

Question 14

What are critical features of PBS?

Answer 14

Comprehensive lifestyle change and quality of life, ecological validity, social validity, systems change and multicomponent intervention, emphasis on prevention

Question 15

What is functional assessment?

Answer 15

A set of processes for defining the events in an environment that reliably predict and maintain problem behavior (behavioral excess or deficit)

Question 16

What does functional assessment allow for the reliable detection of?

Answer 16

Antecedents, behaviors, consequences

Question 17

What are the five outcomes of functional assessment?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What are three strategies of functional assessment?

Answer 18

Indirect methods, direct observation, functional analysis

Question 19

What are indirect methods?

Answer 19

Interviewing the people that have direct contact with and knowledge of the individual

Question 20

What is direct observation?

Answer 20

Collecting functional assessment information by systematically observing the person with problem behavior in typical daily routines

Question 21

What is functional analysis?

Answer 21

Systematic manipulation of specific variables that are or are not associated with the problem behaviors

Question 22

What does functional analysis involve?

Answer 22

Manipulation of typical consequences associated with problem behavior

Question 23

What is play condition?

Answer 23

Free access to reinforcement and attention

Question 24

What is alone condition?

Answer 24

People are present but provide no activity or attention

Question 25

What is attention condition?

Answer 25

Attention provided contingent upon problem behavior

Question 26

What is escape condition?

Answer 26

Demands are presented and removed contingent on problem behavior