PSYB45H3 Study Guide - Reinforcement, Functional Analysis, Tantrum
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Performing a functional assessment: 1) indirect methods; interviews and questionnaires. From functional assessment to program design: 1) interpreting functional assessment data. Strengths and limitations of functional assessments: 1) better and early treatment. : behavior is influenced by antecedents and consequences. To determine the functions of a behavior requires that we know the situations (e. g. time and place) in which the behavior does or does not occur and how the person benefits from his or her current pattern of behavior. Conducting a functional assessment improves the success of behavior change programs. Functional assessment: is a set of procedures by which we can identify connections between a behavior and its antecedents and consequences. Functional assessments should have three outcomes: define the target behavior exactly and clearly, determine which antecedents function to produce the behavioral excess or deficit, reveal how the person"s behavior functions to produce reinforcement. Antecedents and consequences in functional assessments are usually overt, but they can be covert as well.
