Functions of Behavior
How many functions of behavior are there?
Four
What is the first step in the functional behavior assessment process?
HINT: GETACAB
Objectively define the target behavior
The open-ended functional analysis was written and created by
Who is Dr. Hanley
This type of reinforcement includes the addition of a stimuli.
Positive reinforcement
Our ethical duty to review assessments, assessment procedures, behavior change interventions, risks and benefits of treatment with clients and stakeholders and gain verbal, written (or both) authorization PRIOR to conducting any treatment or behavior intervention.
What is informed consent
What are the four functions of behavior?
Attention, Escape, Access/Tangibles, Automatic/Sensory
Formulating a functional hypothesis can be done through
Analyzing the results of indirect assessments
This type of indirect assessment is routinely used in assessment. It consists of obtaining clear and objective information about behaviors, antecedents, and consequences and requires an interviewer.
Behavioral interviews
This phenomenon refers to the effects of thinning a reinforcement schedule too quickly or creating an abrupt increase in ratio requirements
What is ratio strain
Parents MUST be presented with THIS review of a list of how a functional analysis can help behavior and the client or potentially hurt behavior or the client when gaining consent for the analysis
What is risk-benefit analysis
You review ABC data from a parent. The child engages in a behavior and the consequence is always the parent gives up and let's them go back to whatever they're doing and doesn't make them do the task. What could a functional hypothesis be?
Escape
What are the conditions we test when testing our functional hypothesis
This type of indirect assessment includes asking informants to estimate the extend under which behavior occurs under certain conditions and the hypothesis is developed around the scores associated with each function
Behavior rating scales
This schedule of reinforcement is MOST resistant to extinction
Intermittent reinforcement
This is the type of functional analysis that focuses on assessing the behaviors that occur BEFORE the target behavior.
What is functional analysis of precursor behaviors
Step one in the FBA/FA summary is
This is a procedure for recording the extent to which a target behavior occurs more often at particular times
What is scatter plot recording
According to LSTS treatment planning procedures, the results of your indirect assessments should be listed where in the treatment plan?
The table of assessments completed
This type of reinforcement presents a reinforcer on a fixed or variable schedule independent of the occurrence of the target behavior
What is non-contingent reinforcement
This type of functional analysis we run only one or two 5 to 10 minute sessions for each condition and can include conducting a contingency reversal.
What is Brief functional Analysis
Knowing and understanding the functions of behavior, the antecedents to behavior, the consequences to behavior, and having a strong objective and measurable definition to the topography of the the behavior are significant. Without deep and individualized understanding of these we cannot provide an ethical and effective ______ based treatment
What is function
Once the functional analysis is complete, in order to be effective, the intervention we develop should be
FUNCTIONALLY EQUIVALENT
What are the two indirect assessment instruments that have repeatedly demonstrated to be unreliable and therefore produce questionable validity and should be used with caution?
What is MAS (motivation assessment scale) and QABF (questions about behavioral function)
This type of reinforcement is used primarily with extinction to ensure extinction is used correctly and ethically by reinforcing a specific response class while withholding reinforcement from another response class.
What is differential reinforcement
This type of functional analysis increases efficiency by using an IISCA and tests all of the conditions simultaneously. It is newly researched, but in the last 2-3 years has become arguably the most effective and ethical way to determine functions of behavior.
HINT: Hanley is heavily involved in this research
What is synthesized functional analysis