Types of records to review in assessment process
What is historical, medical, and school-based records?
3 stimulus preference assessments
What is asking, free-operant, and trial-based?
Anecdotal observation and ABC descriptive data are AKAs for...
What is ABC narrative recording?
Analog assessment is an AKA for...
What is functional analysis (FA)?
What type of behavior should be targeted first when creating goals?
What is socially significant behavior?
Specific stimuli and response classes that are connected to a persons race, socioeconomic class, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability ...
What is cultural identity?
Suzy is shown 3 items: a red ball, a blue spinner, yellow duck. Suzy picks the blue spinner. The blue spinner is replaced with an orange train. Which assessment is being used?
What is multiple stimulus without replacement (MSWO)?
Assesses the timing patterns of target behaviors
What is scatterplot recording?
Conditions in an FA include...
BONUS: Which condition was not apart of Iwata's original work?
Contingent attention, Contingent escape, Alone, Play (control)
BONUS: Tangible
What is the ultimate goal of treatment as stated in the PTB book?
What is habilitation?
Indirect assessment that gathers quantifiable information about a behavior's occurrence and related environmental variables
What is a rating scale?
Which reinforcer assessment follows the 'behavior goes where reinforcement flows' rule?
What is a concurrent schedule reinforcement assessment?
Name one limitation of descriptive assessments
What is correlation does NOT = causation?
What is potentially low reliability?
What is false positives?
Which variation of an FA records the occurrence and nonoccurrence of challenging behaviors in observed opportunities when the EO is presented?
What is a trial-based FA?
You conduct record reviews, observe the client, run an FA, and consult with the family. The behavior appears maintained by escape and occurs mostly during tasks unfamiliar to the client. The family wants the child to be more independent. What two goals should be prioritized based on these data?
What are (1) teaching a functional communication response to request breaks or help, and (2) building task tolerance through skill acquisition in unfamiliar contexts?
Scroring 3.2 means performing at a 3rd grade level.
Scoring 5.5 means performing at the age of 5.5 years.
What is a standardized test?
What would you conclude if an item is chosen consistently in a paired-choice assessment but doesn’t increase responding in a reinforcer test?
What is it is a preferred item but not a true reinforcer?
A behavior analyst is analyzing ABC data for a client who engages in aggression. The data show that aggression occurs in 9 out of 10 instances when a demand is placed, but only 2 out of 10 times when no demand is present. The analyst calculates the likelihood of aggression given the presence of a demand. What concept is the analyst using?
What is conditional probability?
Which condition is used as a baseline?
What is the play (control) condition?
A 4-year-old child learns to read simple words. As a result, she can now access written instructions, follow street signs, and participate in classroom activities she previously couldn't. What type of behavior has she acquired?
What is a behavior cusp?
A family requests a goal be removed because it conflicts with a cultural value. What is your ethical responsibility?
What is to respect their input, reassess the goal's social significance, and collaborate on alternatives?
A therapist alternates between two conditions: one where a specific behavior results in praise (signaled by a green card), and one where it does not (signaled by a red card). The analyst is testing whether the presence of the green card increases the behavior. What kind of assessment is this?
What is a multiple schedules reinforcer assessment?
Establishing the function maintaining a target behavior can be tied back to what dimension of ABA?
What is analytic?
Creates test conditions including multiple functions of behavior combined to a single situation describes...
What is a distinctive feature of Interview- Informed Synthesized Contingency Analysis (IISCA)?
A client is taught to self-initiate asking for help. After learning this skill, the client begins requesting assistance across home, school, and therapy settings, and shows fewer problem behaviors. What is this an example of?
What is a pivotal behavior?