PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Screen Junkies, Reinforcement, Functional Analysis
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Functional assessment refers to a variety of approaches that attempt to identify the antecedents and consequences for problem behaviors. Functional analysis is the systematic manipulation of environmental events to experimentally test their role as antecedents or consequences in controlling or maintaining specific problem behaviors, which is also called experimental functional assessment. In this procedure, one directly assess the effects of potential controlling variables on the problem behavior. The narrow meaning of functional analysis is discovering the specific antecedents and consequences that control a given behavior of an individual. The broader meaning is scientifically finding a functional relationship between examples of two variables independent variable and dependent variable. The children were carefully screened by medical personnel to insure that an self-injuries would not be more extensive than minor cuts or scrapes the children would typically incur in their usually daily activities. Throughout the study, medical personnel was ready to treat any self-injuries.
