Year Two Flashcards
(56 cards)
Replacement behaviours
Behaviours that the person should do instead of the problem behaviour
Functional behaviour assessment
Process of systematically examining the controlling variables for behaviour
Function
The purpose a behaviour serves for the person, usually defined in terms of reinforcement
Direct assessment methods
Data collection strategies that involve directly observing behaviour
Indirect assessment methods
Data collection strategies that do not require direct observations of behaviour
Informant assessment
Indirect methods used to form hypotheses about causes of behaviour by asking questions of people who know the person with challenging behaviour
Descriptive assessment
Direct observation of a person’s behaviour in the natural environment, intended to identify relationships between the behaviour and environmental events
Abc analysis
Direct assessment procedure in which one systematically records the antecedents and consequences for behaviour in order to reveal conditional probabilities of behaviour
Scatterplot
Direct assessment strategy in which the times in which behaviours occur are recorded to reveal temporal patterns of behaviour
Experimental functional analysis
The use of specific methods to test hypotheses about the variables that cause and/or maintain behaviour
Contingent attention condition
Experimental functional analysis condition in which each time the problem behaviour occurs, brief social attention is given to the person
Contingent escape condition
Experimental functional analysis condition in which the person is asked to do some tasks, but if the problem behaviour occurs, then the demand is removed temporarily and later re-presented
Demand condition
Experimental functional analysis condition in which the person is asked to do some tasks, but if the problem behaviour occurs, then the demand is removed temporarily and later re-presented
Alone condition
Experimental functional analysis condition in which the person is left alone with no external sources of stimulation
Control condition
Experimental functional analysis condition in which all consequences that could be maintaining the behaviour are present
Play condition
Experimental functional analysis condition in which all consequences that could be maintaining the behaviour are present
Function based intervention
Strategy for changing behaviour seeks to change the environmental stimuli that cause or maintain behaviour
Non function based intervention
Strategy that seeks to change the behaviour, but does not consider information about the environmental stimuli that cause or maintain the behaviour
Differential reinforcement
Intentionally reinforcing some behaviours but not others
Differential reinforcement of alternative behaviour
Procedure in which an appropriate behaviour is reinforced instead of reinforcing the inappropriate behaviour
Functional communication training
Variation of DRA in which the alternative behaviour is a communicative response
Differential reinforcement of incompatible
Variation of DRA in which the alternative behaviour is one that cannot occur at the same time as the problem behaviour
Thinning
Process by which reinforcement is reduced by gradually require more behaviour to access reinforcement
Differential reinforcement of other or zero behaviour (DRO)
Procedure in which a reinforcer is delivered if the problem behaviour does not occur at all during a specified time period
