Prerequisite behavior
The necessary components skills of any behavior needed to perform a specific behavior.
F. Behavior Assessment
Progressive-ratio schedule reinforcer assessment
A reinforcer assessment that identifies the relative effectiveness of a potential reinforcer when response requirements are progressively increased until a breaking point is reached (i.e., responding decreases or stops).
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Rating scales
An indirect assessment method in which individuals knowledgeable about the occurrence of the behavior of interest and the relevant environmental variables, answer questions by making selections from a closed set
Reinforcer assessment
A collection of assessment activities that test preferred stimuli to determine their effectiveness as reinforcers for specific target behaviors by measuring increases in target behaviors contingent on the immediate presentation
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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.
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