Behavior Assessment
What are indirect assessments?
This designates responses as members of the targeted response class solely by their common effect on the environment.
What are function based definitions?
True of False: any target behavior must benefit the person either directly or indirectly
What is true?
7 Dimensions of ABA are...
What are: Behavioral, Applied, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Analytic, Generality and Effective?
A stimulus is removed from the environment which increases the behavior in the future.
What is negative reinforcement?
What is reactivity?
A definition must be these 3 things
What is clear, complete and objective?
This occurs when a learner performs a new behavior that sets the occasion to access reinforcers that otherwise would not have been available.
What is behavior cusp?
This is the dimension where procedures are described with sufficient detail so that others can replicate it
What is Technological?
When another person controls your access to reinforcement.
What is socially-mediated reinforcement?
Tests, direct observations and ABC recording
What are direct assessments?
True or False: A behavior change has social validity if it changes some aspect of the person’s life in an important way
What is true?
True of False: With multiple target behaviors, you should focus on the behavior that occurs the most often
What is false?
This group of people came up with the 7 dimensions
Who are Baer, Wolf & Risley in 1968?
Food, water, warmth.
What are examples of unconditioned reinforcers?
the degree to which the person’s repertoire maximizes short- and long-term reinforcers for that individual and for others, and minimizes short- and long-term punishers
What is habilitation?
This identifies instances of the target behavior by the shape or form of the behavior
What are topography based definition?
This is is a behavior that, once learned, produces corresponding modifications or covariations in other adaptive untrained behaviors.
What is pivotal behavior?
This dimension improves the behavior in a practical manner
What is effective?
The consequence is produced directly by a response independent of the actions of another
What is automatic reinforcement?
This type of assessment: the degree to which the person’s repertoire maximizes short- and long-term reinforcers for that individual and for others, and minimizes short- and long-term punishers
What are behavior interviews?
assessing the performance of people judged to be highly competent and experimentally manipulating different levels of performance to determine which produces optimal results determines this..
What is social validity?
the active participation of parents and students, when possible, in the selection of short- and long-term goals increases this...
What is active participation?
The AKAs for Analytic and Generality are...
What are functional relation (analytic) and generalization (generality)
The process of no longer providing the reinforcement that has been maintaining a behavior.
What is operant extinction?