Behavioral Function Basics
Problem behavior is said to have this when it serves a purpose by producing reinforcement.
What is function?
This is the systematic process used to identify behavior and environmental variables.
What is behavioral assessment?
This FBA method uses interviews and questionnaires.
What is indirect assessment?
This condition provides free access to attention and low demands.
What is the play (control) condition?
This assessment method records antecedents, behavior, and consequences as they occur.
What is ABC continuous recording?
This type of reinforcement involves gaining access to attention, items, or activities.
What is positive reinforcement?
These are the two broad types of assessment methods used in ABA.
What are indirect and direct assessments?
This method involves direct observation in natural settings.
What is descriptive assessment?
This is what must happen in test conditions to demonstrate function.
What is higher rates of behavior compared to control?
This assessment method identifies when behavior occurs across time periods.
What is scatterplot recording?
This type of reinforcement involves escaping or avoiding demands.
What is negative reinforcement?
This term refers to behavior changing because it is being observed.
What is reactivity?
This method manipulates variables to identify behavioral function.
What is functional analysis?
This is why the control condition should produce low responding.
What is to rule out extraneous variables?
This compares how often a consequence occurs after behavior versus otherwise.
What is conditional probability?
This type of reinforcement occurs when behavior produces its own sensory consequences.
What is automatic reinforcement?
This type of behavior is defined as observable, measurable, and targeted for change.
What is a target behavior?
This is why descriptive assessments cannot confirm function.
What is they only show correlation, not causation?
This type of FA uses brief trials embedded in routines.
What is trial-based functional analysis?
This is a key reason descriptive analyses often produce false-positive conclusions about behavioral function.
What is that frequently occurring consequences (e.g., attention) may follow behavior but are not actually reinforcing it?
This is why two behaviors that look different can still be maintained by the same variables.
What is they share the same function?
This explains why assessment typically moves from broad to narrow.
What is to avoid missing important variables before refining focus?
This describes how the three FBA methods differ overall.
What is they vary in precision and effort (indirect least, functional analysis most)?
This FA is best for dangerous or low-frequency behaviors.
What is latency-based functional analysis?
This factor primarily accounts for the low correspondence between descriptive analysis outcomes and functional analysis results.
What is that nonfunctional but commonly occurring events obscure true functional relationships?