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Analyzing Behavior: Part 1

Analyzing Behavior: Part 1. Week 4: Functional Assessment. Functions of Behavior. Positive Reinforcement Social Positive Attention Tangible Reinforcement Automatic Positive Reinforcement Negative Reinforcement Social Negative Reinforcement Automatic Negative Reinforcement.

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Analyzing Behavior: Part 1

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  1. Analyzing Behavior: Part 1 Week 4: Functional Assessment

  2. Functions of Behavior • Positive Reinforcement • Social Positive Attention • Tangible Reinforcement • Automatic Positive Reinforcement • Negative Reinforcement • Social Negative Reinforcement • Automatic Negative Reinforcement

  3. Linking to Intervention • Altering Antecedent Variables • Motivating Operation • Discriminative Stimuli • Altering Consequence Variables • Extinction • Set up a negative reinforcement paradigm • Teaching Alternative Behaviors • E.g. Functional Communication Training

  4. Experimental Functional Analysis • Purpose is to test each hypothesized function • Play Condition (Control) • Contingent Attention • Contingent Escape (Demand) • Alone (Automatic R+/-)

  5. Limitations to EFA • Increasing undesirable behavior • May lack face validity to lay person • May not be useful for all behaviors • Contrived not same as real environment • Requires professional expertise

  6. Direct Descriptive Functional Analysis • General Methods: A-B-C Logs, observations • Look for correlation of behavior and hypothesized function in natural environment • Conditional Probabilities • Proportion of occurrences of target behavior that were followed by specific hypothesized function. • Not strong agreement between C.P.’s and E.F.A

  7. Indirect Descriptive Functional Assessment • General Methods: Interviews & Rating Scales • Advantages: Convenient, initial Ho development • Limitations: Not direct

  8. A B C • Let’s think about some of our own Behaviors • Let’s think about some behaviors of others • Consider the FBA flowchart on the “C” • We will discuss the “A” flowchart next week

  9. FuBARS & FBA-Checklist • Assesses the quality of assessments of interfering Behavior. • Your Project will be graded using the FuBAR. • You will conduct a self-assessment • FuBARS & FBA-Checklist • I will conduct an external assessment • FuBARS

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