Unit 1 (video 8) ASR

Question 1

Indirect assessment methods are referred to as ______ methods

Direct assessment methods are referred to as ______ methods

Answer 1

tell me; show me. - Indirect assessments are “tell me” methods because the information gathered is “told” by the witness to the assessor. There is no direct observation of the behavior. Direct assessments are “show me” methods because the information gathered is “shown” to the assessor. The client’s behavior and environmental events are directly measured and recorded as it occurs in real time.

Question 2

Which method is the sine qua non of behavioral assessment?

Answer 2

direct assessment. - The direct assessment is the sine qua non of behavior analysis, meaning that direct observation and measurement are key characteristics of behavioral assessment and without it, we cannot say we have conducted a true behavioral assessment

Question 3

Which method of assessment are questionnaires?

Answer 3

indirect

Question 4

A descriptive assessment has a medium but narrowing scope and a low to medium but rising fidelity because it:

Answer 4

focuses on specific behaviors of interest and includes direct observation in the environment where bx typically occurs

Question 5

the scope of descriptive assessment is ____ while the fidelity is ____

Answer 5

medium but narrowing; low-medium but rising. - The scope of descriptive assessment is medium but narrowing. The descriptive assessment assesses a variety of possible target behaviors, possible replacement behavior, various natural environmental contexts and events. The fidelity of descriptive assessment is low to medium but rising. The descriptive assessment can help with the hypothesis of functional relations but does not experimentally demonstrate functional relations.

Question 6

narrative recording tends to have a ______ fidelity

Answer 6

low to medium. - The fidelity of narrative recording is low to medium. The narrative recording involves simple observation and recording of the referred behavior in a context with possible maintaining variables but involves no systematic manipulation.

Question 7

Narrative recording tends to have a _____ scope.

Answer 7

medium. -
The scope of narrative recording is medium. The narrative recording assesses the referred behavior and events but can also capture a variety of possible other behaviors in various natural environmental contexts.