Unit 9 Flashcards
Indirect Assessment (verbal report) Descriptive Assessment (naturalistic observation) Functional Analysis (experimental manipulation)
Types of functional assessments
Change in an independent variable (IV) produces orderly and predictable change in a dependent variable (DV)
Functional relation
Direct observation
Measurement of behavior under test and control conditions
Basic Features of FA
To test a specific hypothesis about the controlling variables for problem behavior
Functional Analysis Methodology
Multiple tests conditions can be elevated relative to the control
Multiple Control
Rapidly alternate between conditions
Multielement Design
One condition ran at a time
Less common because of amount of time required
Reversal Design
Fairly common
More efficient than reversal
One test condition alternated with control
May assist in discriminability of conditions
Pairwise