PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Intellectual Disability, Tantrum, Screen Junkies
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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. If extremely harmful self-injurious behaviours were to be controlled, behaviour modifiers often seemed to have no choice other than to resort to strong punishment, such as electric shock punishment. In 1982 brian iwata and his colleagues wrote a paper about how to help self-injurious individual to come to a stop: they conducted the experiment on 9 children. They allowed self-injurious behaviour but only at certain extend; injuries that a person could encounter in any daily activities.
