INdirect assessments interviews and rating scales Flashcards
To learn about direct assessments
What 3 things must all FBA have ?
Indirect Assessment
Descriptive assessment
Functional behaviour analysis
What is the purpose of both indirect and direct assessment?
To identify the environmental variables that are likely to occasion behaviour (antcedents)
And the factors that affect the future likihood of the response (consequence)
What are indirect assessments?
Collecting data from caregivers and / or significant others.
Interviews
Rating scales
What is not included in an indirect assessment?
Direct observation of the client or the target behaviour.
Experiemental manipulation of the environmental events.
What is involved in direct assessment?
Observation of the individual in a natural or contirved environment.
Experiemental manipulation of the environmental events.
Waht are the beneifts of carrying out indirect assessments?
Is lessly costly than direct assessments i.e. time and the requirement ot have specialised staff.
Addresses the issues of not have access to the naturalistic environments
Overcomes the barrier of not have adequate resources.
Realtively easy to implement.
What can indirect assessment provide the researcher with?
the OPERANT Function of bahaviour.
What are 2 major disadvantages of indirect assessments?
Validity and reliabilty
What is validity?
Validity is the extent to which the assessment measures that which it was designed to measure.
What is reliabilty?
The stabilty over time or across stimuluss of the parameters
What information can indirect assessments can provide that may not be available through other means?
Perspectives over time across people and circumstances.
Descriptions of relveant historical variables.
A broader persepctive on setting events or ecological factors.
Previous medical, behaviourial or therapeutic recommendations / interventions.
An understanding of the person’s lifestyle.
What is a difference between interviews and questionaires?
In interviews questions are delivered by the interviewer.
Questionaires are self administered by the participants.
What Problems that might be encountered when collecting data via interviews?
Interview bias
Interviewee may not understand the question.
Interviewee may not ask for clarification as they do not wish to appear uninformed.
May not provide an accurate information as they do not wish to appear to be a “bad” teacher , parent etc.
Information may be exggerated
Interviwer may be asked for advice.
What is QABF?
Questions About Behaviorial Function (rating scale)
What is PBQ?
Problem Behavior Questionaire (rating scale)
