Standardized tests
An assessment instrument with empirically established validity and reliability that compares a client’s results to the normative levels of the population for whom the specific test was designed.
F. Behavior Assessment
Stimulus preference assessment
A collection of assessment activities used to identify preferred stimuli that are likely to function as reinforcers.
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Synthesized FA
A variation of the functional analysis that uses an Interview Informed Synthesized Contingency Analysis (IISCA) to hypothesize the contingencies that may maintain challenging behavior and then testing those hypothesized contingencies.
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Tandem schedules of reinforcement
A compound schedule of reinforcement in which two or more un-signaled (No SD) basic schedules of reinforcement are in effect and must be met successively for the response to contact
Tangible condition
A test condition in a functional analysis that assesses for the socially mediated positive reinforcement (access to tangibles) function. In this condition, the assessor presents the client access to individualized
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Tangible function
When the source of reinforcement for a behavior is access to specific socially mediated tangible items.
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Trial-based FA
A variation of the functional analysis that uses a trial-based format to evaluate the occurrence and nonoccurrence of challenging behaviors given the presentation of an opportunity (trial) to emit the