Unit 6

Question 1

• FBA interview
• ABC narrative recording
• Rating scales (motivational assessment scale)
• Scatterplot analysis
• Descriptive analysis
• Brief FBA
• Antecedent A-B analysis
• Functional A-B-C analysis
• Progressive analyses

Answer 1

Approaches to functional bx assessment

Question 2

the degree to which a study’s finding’s have generality to other subjects, settings, and/or bxs.

Answer 2

external validity

Question 3

differences between the conditions of assessment and the client’s natural environment in the functional properties of motivating and reinforcing events.

Answer 3

threats to external validity

Question 4

What’s the most valid functional behavioral assessment approach?

Answer 4

a combination of methodologies

Question 5

establishes that problem bx is a function of specific motivating and maintaining events

Answer 5

internal validity

Question 6

threats to internal validity

Answer 6

events that co-occur with the independent variable that could account for the findings

Question 7

Reasons for conducting a descriptive analysis

Answer 7

• Identify idiosyncratic forms of motivating and reinforcing events
• Design experimental FA conditions that more closely represent natural conditions
• Estimate natural schedules of reinforcement maintaining problem behavior
• Interpret the results of experimental FA methods

Question 8


Approaches to descriptive analysis


Answer 8

• Scatterplot analysis
• Coding behaviors without reference to specific
motivational or reinforcing environmental events
• Direct recording of behavior in relation to
possible motivating and reinforcing events

Question 9

Results showed that a scatter plot is a more practical way to collect data by direct-care staff across an entire day or shift and produced the same conclusions as more labor intensive methods of data collection

Answer 9

Touchette, MadDonald, & Langer (1985)

Question 10

• First published descriptive assessment
• Developed to empirically study child development
• Real-time measurement of child behavior and
environmental events
• Important for operational definitions of behavior

Answer 10

Bijou, Peterson, & Ault (1968)

Question 11

• Combined descriptive and experimental analyses in the study of bizarre speech
• Found that bizarre speech was functionally related to attention

Answer 11

Mace & Lalli (1991)

Question 12

• Used conditional probabilities to assess student and teacher interactions
• Found that teachers were more likely to give “Do” directives than “Don’t” directives and that there was a greater probability of teacher attention given noncompliance than compliance

Answer 12

Ndoro, Hanley , Tiger , & Heal (2006)

Question 13

Possibly the first descriptive analysis research to employ a fully comprehensive approach to functional behavioral assessment

Answer 13

Lalli, Browder, Mace, & Brown (1993)

Question 14

More rigorous and accurate method of data collection (according to Dr. Mace)

Answer 14

Count within interval recording (rate)

Question 15

Data collection method that yields the best estimate of duration (according to Dr. Mace)

Answer 15

momentary time sampling

Question 16

Best inter-observer agreement measure

Answer 16

Exact agreement on an interval by interval basis

Question 17

p (target behavior | MO)

Answer 17

Represents the probability of behavior when an antecedent event is present
(Reflects the power of the MO to evoke behavior)

Question 18

p (subsequent event | MO-TB)

Answer 18

Represents the probability of a consequent event when a motivating operation and target behavior are present
(Estimates natural schedule of reinforcement)

Question 19

best practice to set temporal gaps between events

Answer 19

use natural lines of fracture

Question 20

Conducted a conventional analysis and ABC analysis, and a classroom analysis and found the same outcomes across analyses

Answer 20

sasso, et al. (1992)

Question 21

Results indicated that the descriptive analysis was useful in identifying the extent to which SIB was related to social versus nonsocial contingencies, but was limited in its ability to distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement (i.e. attention versus escape).

Answer 21

lerman and iwata (1993)

Question 22

Found that social consequences arranged by the experimental analysis did match naturally occurring events in the environment.

Answer 22

Thompson & Iwata

Question 23

Reasons to use a line graph display of data

Answer 23

• Tells the story over observational samples
• Provides a more “fine grain” way to analyze the
data
• Shows the variability in conditional probabilities
over repeated samples

Question 24

Convenient, practical, less labor-intensive methods of data collection

Answer 24

• Count of episodes of a target behavior across the day
• Count during large time periods across the day
• Rating scales with defined, numeric anchors
across the day or during shorter periods
• Rating scales without anchors
• Occurred or did not occur rating across the day
or during periods

Question 25

Rigorous and accurate methods of data

collection

Answer 25

• Partial interval recording
• Whole interval recording
• Count within interval recording
• Momentary time sampling

Question 26

Reasons for combining descriptive and experimental methods

Answer 26

• DAs can help identify idiosyncratic forms of motivating and reinforcing events
• This information can inform the design of experimental conditions that better represent natural conditions
• Natural schedules of reinforcement can be calculated to be used to design EAs
• Comparing DA and EA results can help estimate how valid the FA findings are

Question 27

Internal validity is the degree to which a descriptive assessment:!

Answer 27

identifies specific antecedents and consequences influencing the occurrence of a target bx

Question 28

According to Dr. Mace, what is the most valid approach to functional bx assessment?

Answer 28

combination of methodologies

Question 29

internal validity establishes that problem bx is a function of

Answer 29

specific motivating and maintaining events

Question 30

Per Dr. Mace, what methodologies have the lowest degree of internal validity?

Answer 30

interview, rating scales, descriptive analyses

Question 31

being able to estimate natural schedules of reinforcement maintaining a problem bx is a benefit of what type of analysis?

Answer 31

descriptive analysis

Question 32

Why was the scatterplot analysis developed?

Answer 32

as a practical means for direct care staff to collect data across and entire day or shift (Touchette, MacDonald & Langer, 1985)

Question 33

In the Touchette, MacDonald & Langer (1985) study, what conclusions were made when comparing conventional plotting of assaultive bx to scatter plot analysis?

Answer 33

the scatterplot was more practical and produced the same conclusions

Question 34

What was the first published study to use descriptive analysis?

Answer 34

Bijou, Peterson & Ault (1968)

Question 35

Mace and Lalli (1991) combined what two functional behavioral assessment methodologies in the study of the bizarre speech of a 46-yr-old male?

Answer 35

descriptive and experimental analysis

Question 36

Mace and Lalli (1991), found that bizarre speech was functional related to what hypothesis, as confirmed in the experimental analysis?

Answer 36

attention

Question 37

Per Dr. Mace, the Lalli, Browder, Mace and Brown (1993) study of descriptive analysis research was possibly the first to…

Answer 37

employ a fully comprehensive approach to functional behavioral assessment

Question 38

According to Dr. Mace, what method of data collection is a “more rigorous and accurate method”

Answer 38

count within interval recording

Question 39

According to Dr. Mace, what data collection method yields the best estimate of duration?

Answer 39

momentary time sampling

Question 40

what reflects the power of the MO to evoke bx?

Answer 40

p(target bx | MO)