Chapter 24 Functional Behaviour Assessment

Question 1

__________ ________ ___________ enables hypotheses about the relations among specific types of environmental events and behaviors.

Answer 1

Functional behavior assessment (FBA)

Question 2

Behaviors can be strengthened by either “________ _________” or “_______ ___ __ __________.”

Answer 2

Getting something or getting out of something

Question 3

FBA interventions can consist of at least three strategic approaches:

Answer 3

Altering antecedent variables,
Altering consequent variables, and
Teaching alternative behaviors.

Question 4

_________ ______ ________ can identify antecedent variables that can be altered to prevent problem behavior

Answer 4

Altering antecedent variables,

Question 5

_________ ______ ________ can identify reinforcement contingencies that can be altered so that problem behavior no longer receives reinforcement,

Answer 5

Altering consequent variable

Question 6

_________ ______ ________ can help identify reinforcers for alternative replacement behaviors.

Answer 6

Teaching alternative behaviors.

Question 7

FBA can decrease reliance on _______ ____________ and contribute to more effective interventions in several ways

Answer 7

Default technologies

Question 8

Caregivers might resort to increasingly intrusive, coercive, or punishment-based interventions, which are often referred to as

Answer 8

Default technologies

Question 9

FBA methods can be classified into three types:

Answer 9

(a) functional (experimental) analysis,
(b) descriptive assessment, and
(c) indirect assessment.

Question 10

___________ ___________is the only FBA method that allows practitioners to confirm hypotheses regarding functional relations between problem behavior and environmental events.

Answer 10

Functional analysis

Question 11

Functional analysis involves :

Answer 11

Systematically manipulating environmental events thought to maintain problem behavior within an experimental design.

Question 12

The primary advantage of functional analysis is its:

Answer 12

Ability to yield a clear demonstration of the variable(s) that relate to the occurrence of a problem behavior.

Question 13

in an functional analysis graph, If problem behavior occurs frequently in all conditions (including the play condition), or is variable across conditions, responding is considered ____________

Answer 13

Undifferentiated

Question 14

Descriptive functional behavior assessment encompasses

Answer 14

Direct observation of behavior;

Question 15

Three variations of descriptive analysis:

Answer 15

ABC (antecedent- behavior-consequence) continuous recording,
ABC narrative recording, and
Scatterplots.

Question 16

An observer records occurrences of the targeted problem behaviors and selected environmental events in the natural routine during a period of time.

Answer 16

ABC Continuous Recording

Question 17

A __________ ___________is the likelihood that a target problem behavior will occur in a given circumstance.

Answer 17

conditional probability

Question 18

in ABC narrative recording,

Answer 18

(a) data are collected only when behaviors of interest are oberved, and
(b) the recording is open-ended

Question 19

ABC narrative recording may be less ____-_______

Answer 19

time-consuming

Question 20

In, ___ _________ _________, the targeted environmental events (antecedents and consequences) are recorded “whenever they occur”, regardless of whether problem behavior occurred with it.

Answer 20

ABC continuous recording,

Question 21

In, ___ _________ _________, data are recorded “only when the target behavior occurs”.

Answer 21

ABC narrative recording

Question 22

A procedure for recording the extent to which a target behavior occurs more often at particular times than others

Answer 22

Scatterplots

Question 23

Method that uses:
structured interviews, 
checklists, 
rating scales, or 
questionnaires 
to obtain information from persons who are familiar with the individual exhibiting the problem behavior (e.g., teachers, parents, caregivers, and/or the individual him- or herself) to identify possible conditions or events in the natural environment that correlate with the problem behavior.

Answer 23

Indirect functional assessment methods

Question 24

procedures are referred to as “________ _______ ________ ________” because they do not involve direct observation of the behavior, but rather solicit information based on others’ recollections of the behavior.

Answer 24

Indirect Functional Behavior Assessment

Question 25

FBA can best be viewed as a four-step process:

Answer 25

1. Gather information via indirect and descriptive assessment.
2. Interpret information from indirect and descriptive assessment and formulate hypotheses about the purpose of problem behavior.
3. Test hypotheses using functional analysis.
4. Develop intervention options based on the function of problem behavior.

Question 26

Hypothesis statements should be written in ___ _______.

Answer 26

ABC format.

Question 27

The FBA hypothesis statement should state

Answer 27

The antecedent(s) hypothesized to trigger the problem behavior, 
The topography of problem behavior, and 
The maintaining consequence.

Question 28

To test all possible hypotheses within a short period of time is to use a ______ __________ ________ procedure.

Answer 28

Brief functional analysis

Question 29

When teaching an alternative behavior as a replacement for problem behavior, the replacement behavior should be _____________ __________ to the problem behavior (i.e., it should be reinforced using the same reinforcers that pre- viously maintained the problem behavior).

Answer 29

functionally equivalent

Question 30

__________ is an ongoing practice that continues when intervention is implemented.

Answer 30

Assessment