Relevance of behavior rule
A rule that the behavior change prioritized for treatment must be meaningful for the client and relevant individuals in the client’s life.
F. Behavior Assessment
Scatterplot recording
A direct and descriptive measurement and assessment method that uses interval data to display behavior patterns during specific periods and used to assess the times and/or activities during which challenging
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Single stimulus preference assessment
A stimulus preference assessment in which the client is presented with one stimulus at a time; and the client’s response to each individual stimulus is recorded.
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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.
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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Test your ABA Terminology ➠ Compound Schedules of Reinforcement
Test your knowledge with PTB founder Dana Meller as she reviews one of the compound schedules of reinforcement without Sᴰs.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-5: Define and provide examples of schedules of reinforcement.
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Test your ABA Terminology ➠ Functional Assessment Procedures
Focusing on ABC data collection, PTB founder Dana Meller discusses functional assessment procedures. Dana explains how to generate mathematical probabilities for target behaviors based on specific antecedents and consequences, providing a step-by-step guide to quantitatively analyzing the gathered information.
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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