Unit 6 Quiz

Question 1

A FA should not be conducted if:

Answer 1

The individual conducting the FA does not have experience or resources to conduct a FA.

Question 2

A default technology is:

Answer 2

The term used to refer to the interventions that individuals may resort to using that are increasingly intrusive, coercive, and punishment-based.

Question 3

Analog conditions are used in a functional analysis because:

Answer 3

They allow the practitioner to better control the environmental variables that may be related to the problem behavior.

Question 4

Completing a functional analysis makes it easier for one to develop:

Answer 4

Function-based interventions

Question 5

Conducting a functional assessment will provide information concerning:

Answer 5

All the above:
Dimensions of the behavior
Antecedent events
Consequences of the behavior

Question 6

Data are collected for several days and then analyzed for patterns across time periods when this procedure is used:

Answer 6

Scatterplots

Question 7

FBA methods can be classified into:

Answer 7

Three types: 1) functional analysis, 2) descriptive assessment, and 3) indirect assessment.

Question 8

Functional analyses should only be conducted when one wants to evaluate the function of severe self-injurious behavior.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

If one is trying to test if escape is maintaining a behavior, then the inclusion of this condition in the FA is recommended:

Answer 9

Escape

Question 10

Including the tangible condition in a FA is:

Answer 10

Should be carefully considered and only used when a tangible function is hypothesized.

Question 11

Problem behavior can be maintained by:

Answer 11

All the above:

a. Social positive reinforcement.
b. Automatic reinforcement.
c. Tangible reinforcement.

Question 12

The advantage of brief functional analyses is that they:

Answer 12

Are more practical

Question 13

The conditions in a FA are usually randomly alternated in a(n):

Answer 13

Alternating treatment design

Question 14

The identification of antecedent events that evoke a behavior and reinforcing consequences that maintain a behavior is referred to as:

Answer 14

Functional assessment

Question 15

The use of experimental methods in conducting a functional assessment involves the manipulation of:

Answer 15

Consequences and antecedents

Question 16

There is only one way to conduct a functional analysis and a FA must include the following four conditions: alone, escape, attention, and control/play.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

This recording procedure uses precise measures, and in some cases the correlations may reflect causal relations:

Answer 17

ABC continuous recording

Question 18

To determine if a behavior is maintained by escape from task demands, one must make sure to include the following condition in a functional analysis:

Answer 18

Escape

Question 19

Undifferentiated results obtained in a functional analysis are considered:

Answer 19

Inconclusive and require further analysis, or can indicate that a behavior is maintained by automatic reinforcement.

Question 20

Visual inspection of a functional analysis graph suggests that SIB occurred frequently during the attention condition, as the level for that condition is much higher than the other conditions and does not overlap with any of the other lines. This graph suggests that:

Answer 20

The behavior is maintained by attention.

Question 21

Which is the best explanation of a descriptive functional behavior assessment?

Answer 21

Directly observing the problem behavior in relation to events under naturally occurring conditions.

Question 22

Which of the following is a threat to the validity of brief functional analyses but is not as much of a concern with extended functional analyses?
A. Incorporating the correct type of attention to be delivered during the attention condition
B. The use of a control condition
C. Effects of EOs on responding within conditions
D. None of the above

Answer 22

I don’t know but it’s not B

Question 23

Which of the following is not an advantage of indirect functional assessment methods?

Answer 23

They rely on the memory of informants

Question 24

Which of the following is recorded when using direct observation methods to conduct a functional assessment?

Answer 24

Antecedents, behaviors, and consequences

Question 25

Which of the following is true?

Answer 25

Assessment of the function of a behavior can yield useful information with respect to intervention strategies that are likely to be effective.

Question 26

Which of the following procedures includes open-ended recording?

Answer 26

ABC narrative recording