Functions
An examination of temporally ordered environmental events conducted in order to reveal the purpose of a behavior is called ______________.
a functional behavior-analytic approach to understanding human behavior
Establishing operations (EOs) involve an antecedent condition that makes a given outcome ____ . ______________
more valuable
In a functional behavioral assessment, the critical first step is to ____________.
define the present problem
A trigger analysis is particularly suited in examining the rate of ______________ problem behaviors.
relatively infrequent
The antecedent condition contains two variables, EOs and discriminative stimuli. Behavioral descriptions of the antecedent condition in the A-B-C charting method often lack a depiction of the_____.
establishing operation for access functions
In a functional behavior-analytic approach, ________behavior is viewed as serving an environmental function.
operant
EOs refer to the process by which the value of a particular outcome is _______
increased
Your first task is to take the unobservable entities often provided by the referral agent and define them into discrete, observable, and measurable behaviors. This is called________.
pinpointing a target behavior
(a) Behavioral interviewing, (b) scatter plot data, (c) A-B-C descriptive analysis method, (d) analogue assessment, and (e) in situ hypothesis test, are all methods of _____________
conducting a functional behavioral assessment
In cases of behavior maintained by direct or socially mediated access, the ______ is not seen but has to be inferred.
EO
In a functional behavior-analytic approach, behavior is viewed as functional (i.e., purposeful) for certain antecedent contexts because ____________.
of the contingency involved
The SD is a stimulus associated with the _______ of an outcome.
availability
If a referral source indicated that a child was incorrigible, you would ask the referral source to identify previous events or incidents that were representative of the child’s “incorrigibility.” This would be an example of __________
Incident Method
In using trigger analysis to collect behavioral data, you present the antecedent condition that you suspect is the __________ for the problem behavior. If you present this antecedent condition 10 times over a 1-week period, you can determine what percentage of time the problem behavior occurs.
EO
One problem with descriptive analysis is the over-selection of ________ as the maintaining contingency.
social attention
If you serve individuals who more often engage in behavior problems during task demands, compliance situations, instructional conditions, or chores and/work, an understanding of ____________ is critical to the analysis of such behaviors function and the design of effective treatments.
escape functions
The EO is a (an) _____ variable.
antecedent
___________ is also utilized in interval recording systems.
Percentage of Occurrence
In collecting interview information on why a problem behavior is occurring, you examine the relationship between the behavior and ___________.
some consequent event
_______________ requires the presentation of the hypothesized EO and SD in the real life context, with the persons who normally are involved with the client. The occurrence (or absence) of the target problem behavior is then noted (or its absence).
Trigger Analysis
In some cases, noncompliance takes an innocuous form, such as the individual simply not attending to the person issuing the command. Such a lack of response is maintained by ___________.
negative reinforcement
Consider the following example. A squirrel is engaged in eating when a predator approaches. The squirrel stops eating and runs up a tree to avoid the predator. The presence of the predator is a __________.
establishing operation
A client’s social worker reports that the client is decompensating. You should ___________
pinpoint the definition of decompensating
In conducting a behavioral interview, you interview _____________
people that frequently see the behavior
Iwata and colleagues developed four test conditions under which self-injury rates would be evaluated: (a) ________, (b) _________, (c) ________, and (d) ____________.
attention, demand, alone, play