PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Functional Analysis, Proprioception, Reinforcement
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Functional assessment procedures: the term 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. In this procedure which is also called an experimental functional assessment one directly assesses the effects of potential controlling variables on the problem behavior. Internal sensory reinforcement means reinforcement that is produced simply by the sensations that a response produces: example: the flashes of light one might experience whe(cid:374) pressi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s eye(cid:271)all. It is often referred to as the (cid:862)gold sta(cid:374)dard(cid:863) of fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al assess(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause other functional assessment procedures have not been as effective in identifying the variables maintaining problem behavior: for more on the landmark study see pg 225-226.
