Conceptual Foundations
These are the four components of the discriminated operant
MO, SD, Behavior (response class, topography), SR+/-
This FBA procedure involves gathering information based on others' reports, rather than direct observation
Indirect FBA
This step of the Comprehensive FBA process is done in order to "clarify the referral questions and identify the behaviors that interfere with functioning"
Step 1: Identifying the problem
This assessment aims to identify stimuli that are likely to function as reinforcers
a stimulus preference assessment
BAPS stands for:
Behavior Analytic Problem-Solving
MOs have these two effects
Value-altering effects
Behavior-altering effects
These procedures involve systematic, direct observation of behavior under natural conditions
Direct Descriptive
This step includes developing operational definitions, obtaining baseline data , identifying individual variables, and formulating hypotheses about function
Step 2: Defining the problem
This uses experimental methodologies for evaluating whether preferred stimuli function as reinforcers.
Reinforcer assessment (analysis of reinforcer effectiveness)
examples of these include patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting; biological/medical conditions; diagnoses
Personal Characteristics
This signals the availability of reinforcement
Discriminative Stimuli
These involve systematically manipulating environmental variables and directly observing/measuring the effects on behavior
Experimental analyses
This step might include utilizing case conceptualization tools to identify intervention needs, as well as engaging in team problem-solving discussions
Step 3: Exploring Solutions
This type of preference assessment requires individuals to make a series of selections between stimuli and yield hierarchical rankings of preference.
Paired (or forced) choice
These specify the communication, academic, executive, adaptive living, social, and/or self-management concerns that contribute to the target interfering behaviors
Skill Delay/Deficits
This is "comprised of behaviors with varied topographies that are evoked by the same antecedent variables and yield a common effect on the environment"
Response class
Minimal disruption, provides information about naturally occurring events, and yields data on baseline levels on interfering behavior are advantages of which FBA procedure?
Direct Descriptive
An important question to consider for this step might be "What resources are needed?"
Step 4: Implementing Solutions
This type of of preference assessment requires the simultaneous presentation of several stimuli. Once a selection is made, that stimulus is removed from the field, and the rest are presented. This repeats until a clear hierarchy has been established
MSWO
"In the context of individual instruction in the special education classroom, novel and difficult tasks trigger aggressive behaviors that result in escape (i.e., termination of task expectations)" is an example of what?
A functional hypothesis statement
Name at least two parameters of reinforcement
Rate, magnitude, quality, delay, effort
Being susceptible to recollection errors such as the recency error, primacy error, error of exaggeration, and error of generalization are potential disadvantages of which procedure
Indirect procedures
This is the final step in the FBA process, and includes visual inspection of data, and the reiteration of the problem-solving process as needed.
Step 5: Monitoring Outcomes
This is a preference assessment that arranges for unrestricted, continuous access to a variety of items/activities and estimate preference on the basis of time allocation
Free Operant PAs
Name all 8 components of the BAPS model
Interfering behavior, Context, personal characteristics, Skills delays/deficits, motivational triggers, sources of reinforcement, reinforcing consequences, and parameters of reinforcement