Assessment Intervention ABA Exam Questions with
100% Verified Correct Answers
1. Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - Correct Answer -A systematic method (contrived) of
assessment for obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a
person; results are used to guide the design of an intervention for decreasing the problem behavior
and increasing appropriate behavior.
-Enables hypothesis about the relations among specific types of environment events and behaviors
-Mainly focus on ABC to establish patterns of antecedents and consequences to generate hypotheses
about why the problem behavior is happening and how are we going to treat it
1. What kinds of behaviors occur and why do they continue - Correct Answer Both desirable and
undesirable behaviors are learned and maintained through interaction with the environment
1. Social positive reinforcement - Correct Answer -Attention from the environment
-Challenging behavior gets attention from the environment
1. Tangible Reinforcement - Correct Answer -Positive reinforcement in the form of access to
preferred items or activities.
-Problem behavior often is reinforced through access to preferred items that are given to the
individual in an effort to get the challenging behavior to stop.
-Although the behavior may stop in the moment, it makes the challenging behavior more likely to
occur in the future.
1. Automatic Positive Reinforcement - Correct Answer -Some behaviors directly produce their own
reinforcement.
-A behavior is assumed to be maintained by automatic reinforcement only after social reinforcers
have been ruled out.
1. Negative Reinforcement - Correct Answer -Social Negative: Behaviors can be learned as a result of
their effectiveness in terminating or postponing aversive events through others.
-Automatic Negative:Directly terminating aversive stimulation.
1. What are the four functions of behavior? - Correct Answer SEAT Sensory (Automatic),
Escape/Avoidance, Attention, Tangibles
,1. Function vs. topography - Correct Answer -Function: Why the behavior is happening
-Topography: What does the behavior look like
-Topography can serve different functions for different individuals, but does not give enough info
about what is maintaining the behavior
1. What are the three approaches for treatment based on an FBA? - Correct Answer -Altering the
antecedents for problem behavior thereby eliminating the motivating operation and/or the
discriminative stimuli that prompt the behavior.
-Altering consequence variables by placing the challenging behavior on extinction. (Extinction
followed by an extinction burst and spontaneous recovery)
-***Teaching alternative behaviors that could replace the topography of the challenging behavior
and serve the same function for the individual***
1. Default technologies - Correct Answer -Nonfunction-based interventions.
-Last resort interventions that often include increasing intrusive, coercive or punishment-based
interventions.
-When an FBA is conducted, reinforcement-based interventions are more likely to be implemented
than default techniques.
-Implementing a treatment without an FBA may be ineffective, inefficient or even harmful.
-Treatment strategies based on FBA are more likely to be durable over time.
1. Prevention of Behavior - Correct Answer -Only an FBA can be effective in altering the motivating
operation of a behavior
-Punishment temporarily decreases behavior and could lead to more behavior problems
1. Methods of FBA - Correct Answer -Functional Analysis
-Descriptive Assessment
-Indirect Assessment
1. Descriptive Assessment - Correct Answer -ABC narrative recording
-ABC continuous recording
-Scatter plots
, -FBA portion, observations and detailed narrative report, about 3-4 observations 20-30 minutes
across various settings
--FAST (Iawata: Functional Analysis Screening Tool)
--MAS (Durand: Motivational Assessment Scale)
1. Motivational Assessment Scale (MAS) - Correct Answer -Paper and pencil assessment tool (Durand
& Crimmins, 1992)
-Similar to a standardized interview
-Divides into four functions of behavior
-Administer to several raters
-Somewhat subjective
-Can provide some preliminary information
1. Indirect Assessment - Correct Answer -Assessing function of behavior through interviews,
checklists, rating scales or questionnaires administered to individuals familiar with the individual and
the behavior.
-They do not involve direct observation of the individual or the behavior.
-Major limitation is that informants may give you incorrect, biased and subjective information.
1. Functional Analysis - Correct Answer -An analysis of the purposes (functions) of problem behavior,
wherein antecedents and consequences representing those in the person's natural routines are
arranged within an experimental design so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be
observed and measured
-Conditions you set up to test the different functions
-Analog conditions are used because they allow for better control of environmental variables than do
natural conditions.
-Only a functional analysis allows for the confirmation of hypotheses regarding function of behavior.
1. ABC continuous recording - Correct Answer -An observer records behavior as it occurs in the
natural environment for a set period of time.
-Coding systems are used based on interview data.
-Observer records the behavior, antecedents and consequences of the behavior.
-Antecedents and consequences are recorded both in the absence and presence of the challenging
behavior.
100% Verified Correct Answers
1. Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - Correct Answer -A systematic method (contrived) of
assessment for obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a
person; results are used to guide the design of an intervention for decreasing the problem behavior
and increasing appropriate behavior.
-Enables hypothesis about the relations among specific types of environment events and behaviors
-Mainly focus on ABC to establish patterns of antecedents and consequences to generate hypotheses
about why the problem behavior is happening and how are we going to treat it
1. What kinds of behaviors occur and why do they continue - Correct Answer Both desirable and
undesirable behaviors are learned and maintained through interaction with the environment
1. Social positive reinforcement - Correct Answer -Attention from the environment
-Challenging behavior gets attention from the environment
1. Tangible Reinforcement - Correct Answer -Positive reinforcement in the form of access to
preferred items or activities.
-Problem behavior often is reinforced through access to preferred items that are given to the
individual in an effort to get the challenging behavior to stop.
-Although the behavior may stop in the moment, it makes the challenging behavior more likely to
occur in the future.
1. Automatic Positive Reinforcement - Correct Answer -Some behaviors directly produce their own
reinforcement.
-A behavior is assumed to be maintained by automatic reinforcement only after social reinforcers
have been ruled out.
1. Negative Reinforcement - Correct Answer -Social Negative: Behaviors can be learned as a result of
their effectiveness in terminating or postponing aversive events through others.
-Automatic Negative:Directly terminating aversive stimulation.
1. What are the four functions of behavior? - Correct Answer SEAT Sensory (Automatic),
Escape/Avoidance, Attention, Tangibles
,1. Function vs. topography - Correct Answer -Function: Why the behavior is happening
-Topography: What does the behavior look like
-Topography can serve different functions for different individuals, but does not give enough info
about what is maintaining the behavior
1. What are the three approaches for treatment based on an FBA? - Correct Answer -Altering the
antecedents for problem behavior thereby eliminating the motivating operation and/or the
discriminative stimuli that prompt the behavior.
-Altering consequence variables by placing the challenging behavior on extinction. (Extinction
followed by an extinction burst and spontaneous recovery)
-***Teaching alternative behaviors that could replace the topography of the challenging behavior
and serve the same function for the individual***
1. Default technologies - Correct Answer -Nonfunction-based interventions.
-Last resort interventions that often include increasing intrusive, coercive or punishment-based
interventions.
-When an FBA is conducted, reinforcement-based interventions are more likely to be implemented
than default techniques.
-Implementing a treatment without an FBA may be ineffective, inefficient or even harmful.
-Treatment strategies based on FBA are more likely to be durable over time.
1. Prevention of Behavior - Correct Answer -Only an FBA can be effective in altering the motivating
operation of a behavior
-Punishment temporarily decreases behavior and could lead to more behavior problems
1. Methods of FBA - Correct Answer -Functional Analysis
-Descriptive Assessment
-Indirect Assessment
1. Descriptive Assessment - Correct Answer -ABC narrative recording
-ABC continuous recording
-Scatter plots
, -FBA portion, observations and detailed narrative report, about 3-4 observations 20-30 minutes
across various settings
--FAST (Iawata: Functional Analysis Screening Tool)
--MAS (Durand: Motivational Assessment Scale)
1. Motivational Assessment Scale (MAS) - Correct Answer -Paper and pencil assessment tool (Durand
& Crimmins, 1992)
-Similar to a standardized interview
-Divides into four functions of behavior
-Administer to several raters
-Somewhat subjective
-Can provide some preliminary information
1. Indirect Assessment - Correct Answer -Assessing function of behavior through interviews,
checklists, rating scales or questionnaires administered to individuals familiar with the individual and
the behavior.
-They do not involve direct observation of the individual or the behavior.
-Major limitation is that informants may give you incorrect, biased and subjective information.
1. Functional Analysis - Correct Answer -An analysis of the purposes (functions) of problem behavior,
wherein antecedents and consequences representing those in the person's natural routines are
arranged within an experimental design so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be
observed and measured
-Conditions you set up to test the different functions
-Analog conditions are used because they allow for better control of environmental variables than do
natural conditions.
-Only a functional analysis allows for the confirmation of hypotheses regarding function of behavior.
1. ABC continuous recording - Correct Answer -An observer records behavior as it occurs in the
natural environment for a set period of time.
-Coding systems are used based on interview data.
-Observer records the behavior, antecedents and consequences of the behavior.
-Antecedents and consequences are recorded both in the absence and presence of the challenging
behavior.
