605 Study guide 2

enables hypothesis about relations among specific types of enviromental events and behaviors

antecednets and consequences representing those in the person's natural enviroment are arranged so that their seperate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured

encompasses direct observation of behavior occuring in the natural enviroment

the likelihood that a target problem behavior will occur in a given circumstance

method uses structured interviews, checklist, rating scales or questionnaries to obtain information from persons who are familiar with the person exhibiting problem behaviors to indentify possible conditions or events in the natural enviroment that correlate with the problem behavior

exchanging the reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses to confirm a hypothesis about functionality

serving the same function or purpose; different topographies of behavior are functionally equivalent if they produce the same consequences

the function of a behavior that continues it in a given context

after a behavior has become more server and more frequent, caregivers result to increasingly instusive, coersive or punishment based interventions

an increase in behavior do to attention or access to items

continuous recording system in which an observer records occurences of the targeted problem behaviors and selected envorimental events in a natural routine

estimate the extent that behavior occurs under specified conditions using a Likert scale (never,always)

you may use a rating scale but an interview gets information about who what when and where in order to clarify; may involve questions that do not purtain to function

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

fake or contrived FA

studying behavior in the natural Descriptive Anaylsis

enviromental effectives of deprivation and satiation on the value of a reinforcer

Automatic reinforcment does not require another person

Direct Reinforcment

interventions based on an FBA are more likely to be effective than those selected arbitarily