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Cooper Chapter 24
Functional Behaviour Assessment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conditional Probability | The likelihood that a target problem behaviour will occur in a given circumstance |
| Contingency Reversal | Exchanging the reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses; Implemented to confirm the hypothesis rather than conducting many repetitions of all the conditions |
| Descriptive Functional Behaviour Assessment | Direct observation of problem behaviour & the antecedent and consequent events under naturally occurring conditions |
| Functional Analysis | Antecedents and consequences representing those in the persons natural environment are arranged so that their separate effects on problem behaviour can be observed and measured |
| Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA) | Enables hypotheses about the relations among specific types of environmental events and behaviours; designed to obtain information about the purposes (functions) a behaviour serves for a person |
| Functionally Equivalent | Serving the same function or purpose; different topographies of behaviour are functionally equivalent if they produce the same consequences |
| Indirect Functional Assessment | Structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, questionnaires to obtain info from those who are familiar with the person exhibiting the problem behaviour to identify possible conditions or events in the natural environment that correlate with the P.B. |