Measuring Behavior
You weigh yourself on a scale 5 times in one day. Each time, the scale shows 150 lbs. This is an example of.....
Reliability
This assessment presents two items at a time and measures choice.
Paired Stimulus Preference Assessment
List the four functions of behavior.
Attention, Tangible, Escape, Automatic
FAs have higher ___________ validity compared to descriptive assessments.
internal
___________ should always be met before moving to fluency.
Mastery
The BCBA asks the ABA therapist to include sharing with his or her peers in a preschool setting. The ABA therapist takes data on sharing blocks with her in her home session.
This example demonstrates _________ ___________.
Low validity
A behavior analyst places 5 items (stickers, iPad, puzzle, snack, and toy car) in front of a child. The child selects the iPad, which is then removed from the array. The remaining 4 items are rearranged, and the child selects again. This continues until all items have been chosen or the child stops responding
MSWO - Multiple Stimulus Without Replacement Preference Assessment.
When a client alters their behavior when you observe, this is an example of.....
reactivity
During each FA condition, practitioners ____________ the target behavior.
reinforce
A teacher evaluates a student’s reading by checking whether they can correctly read 90 out of 100 grade-level sight words. The student’s performance is judged only against this benchmark. This is an example of a _________ ___________ assessment.
Criterion-referenced assessment
A BCBA measures the amount of time that elapses between when they deliver the instruction, "Clean up", and when their client begins to clean up.
This is an example of what measurement dimension?
Response Latency
During a paired-stimulus assessment, a learner always selects the item on the left side regardless of what it is. This is an example of ______ _______.
Side bias or positional bias
Direct Assessments
Every functional analyses should include a __________ condition.
Control or play
A student meets mastery in structured teaching sessions but cannot perform the skill in a new setting. This skill has not been _________________.
generalized
Saying “hi” in different contexts but with the same vocal form is an example of this.
Topographic Response Class
Preference assessments demonstrate client _________.
Preferences...not reinforcers!
Descriptive assessments do not identify _________ relationships in the natural environment.
causal
When visually analyzing your FA results, you are looking for conditions that are _____________ from the control condition.
A student gets 100% correct on one session, and the teacher immediately moves on to a new skill. Is this a good or bad example of mastery criterion? Why?
Bad. Need to demonstrate responding over multiple sessions to demonstrate true mastery.
Whole interval recording tends to __________ the occurrence of behavior.
underestimate
The BCBA conducts an MSWO preference assessment with the following 5 stimuli: ball, crayons, candy, doll, and cheerios. They determined that the candy was the highest preferred item. Is this assessment data valid? Why or why not?
Not valid. Cannot mix edible and non-edible stimuli.
Provide an example of a behavior that is functioning under Social Negative contingencies.
Social - another person is leading to the consequence
Negative - something aversive is removed
Reinforcement - increases future frequency of behavior.
A clinician is concerned about a child’s severe head-banging, which poses a safety risk. Instead of analyzing the dangerous behavior directly, the clinician conducts sessions where they measure early warning behaviors like whining, pacing, and saying “no.” This is an example of ________ _________ __________.
Precursor Functional Analysis
Provide an example of response generalization and stimulus generalization.
Response generalization = different forms of behavior that result in same function/consequence
Stimulus generalization = same behavior that occurs across different contexts (settings, people, stimuli)