PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Functional Analysis, Scatter Plot, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Functional assessment: conducting an assessment of the three-term contingency to determine the antecedent events that evoke the behaviour and the reinforcing consequences that maintain it. Functional assessment is the process of gathering information about the antecedents and consequences that are functionally related to the occurrence of a problem behaviour. It provides information about why a problem behaviour is occurring. Any environmental events immediately preceding the behaviour. Frequency (and other dimensions of the behaviour. Problem behaviours: an objective description of the behaviours that make up the problem. Antecedents: objective description of environmental events preceding the problem behaviour aspects of the physical environment and behaviour of other people. Consequences: description of environmental events that follow the problem behaviour aspects of physical environment and behaviour of other people. Alternative behaviours: information on desirable behaviours in the person"s repertoire that may reinforced to compete with problem behaviour.
