Behaviour 101
These are the two main categories / sources of reinforcement.
What are socially mediated and automatic sources of reinforcement?
These are the two primary categories of a functional behaviour assessment.
What is direct and indirect assessment?
A functional analysis allows this to be determined between a behaviour and particular environmental variables.
What is a functional relation?
Preference assessments can either be free-operant, or involve presenting stimuli directly to learners. This is the category name of the latter type of assessments.
What are trial-based preference assessments?
This term is used to describe categories of skills in curriculum assessments, but are not considered target behaviours themselves.
What are domains?
Following a reduction assessment, the intervention should directly correspond to this aspect of the challenging behaviour.
What is the function?
Information collected from this group of people can provide both valuable and biased information.
Who are people that know the client well?
If functional assessment = observing, functional analysis = this.
What is manipulating / changing / altering?
(Past, present, or future) responding is indicative of reinforcement having occurred.
What is future responding?
These two sections on the VB-MAPP complement the Milestones assessment by providing information about road blocks for future skill building, and the learner's preparedness for learning in lesser restrictive environments.
What are the Barriers and Transition assessments?
A summary statement provides information about these four components of an operant contingency.
What are possible setting events, common antecedents, the target behaviour, and common consequences?
This is calculated on tools like the QABF, MAS, and FAST to develop a hypothesis about the possible function of the behaviour being assessed.
What are scores?
In the control condition of any functional analysis, this many sources of reinforcement are provided.
What are all possible sources of reinforcement?
Learners who can only differentiate between two choices should not participate in this type of preference assessment.
What is a multiple stimulus preference assessment?
These two assessments are similar in format, but one assesses language and learning skills, while the other assesses practical, independent living skills.
The ABLLS-R (Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills-Revised) and the AFLS (Assessment of Functional Living Skills).
Positive is to attention as this term is to escape.
What is negative?
Using the Functional Assessment Form represents this type of ABC recording.
What is structured ABC recording?
In a traditional functional analysis, when someone instructs the learner to stop engaging in the target behaviour when it happens, they are participating in this condition.
What is the attention condition?
I would recommend this type of preference assessment for a learner who is tolerant of their favourite item being removed as a selection option.
What is a multiple stimulus without replacement preference assessment?
The ABLA tests for this type of responding.
What is discriminated responding?
This type of data is an important component of behavioural assessment for both behaviour reduction or skill acquisition.
What is baseline data?
This type of direct assessment does not provide information about function, but could provide information around relevant times of day.
What are scatterplots?
These are the four components of a behavioural objective.
This is the reason that probe data is a discontinuous form of data collection.
What is because data is only collected during the first trial / opportunity of the day or session?
The Essential for Living assessment focuses on what kind of value?
What is pragmatic value (practical, functional skills)?