PSY-550 Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
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What is behavioral assessment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A variety of methods
used to identify specific behaviors and environmental variables that affect
those behaviors
*typically used for the purpose of creating behavior change
What is function - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the purpose of the behavior
what consequences are produced by the behavior
*describing the function of a behavior is describing the motivating operation
in place
What is function-based treatment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔selecting interventions
that address the reinforcement produced by existing (typically problematic)
behaviors
,Common Functions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Social Positive: Attention (desire for
attention), Tangible (desire for specific item or activity)
Social Negative: Escape/avoidance (desire to avoid or get out of an
activity/situation)
Automatic: anything that isn't socially mediated
Common Context Specific Variables - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Nuanced forms
reinforcers
varying motivating operations
interaction or a combination of multiple reinforcers
Functional Behavior Assessments - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔evaluation process
primarily aimed at identifying the function of challenging behavior for the
purpose of intervention
*the overall process of conducting assessing the function of behavior
Functional Analysis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔refers to a specific form of
assessment that is experimental
Levels of Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Indirect (Informative) Assessment
-interviews, questionnaires, and rating forms
, Direct/Descriptive Assessment
-directly observing the client without interference
-collect data on environmental variables and behaviors
Experimental Assessment
-manipulation of variables of interest
-show experimental control
Reliability and validity of FBA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Indirect assessment: low
level of confidence in reliable identification of function
Direct assessment: moderate level of confidence in reliable identification of
function
Experimental assessment: high level of confidence in reliable identification
of function
What steps/sequence do assessments follow? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔•Depends
on need and population.
•FBAs are typically done with any population who engages in problem
behavior.
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What is behavioral assessment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A variety of methods
used to identify specific behaviors and environmental variables that affect
those behaviors
*typically used for the purpose of creating behavior change
What is function - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the purpose of the behavior
what consequences are produced by the behavior
*describing the function of a behavior is describing the motivating operation
in place
What is function-based treatment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔selecting interventions
that address the reinforcement produced by existing (typically problematic)
behaviors
,Common Functions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Social Positive: Attention (desire for
attention), Tangible (desire for specific item or activity)
Social Negative: Escape/avoidance (desire to avoid or get out of an
activity/situation)
Automatic: anything that isn't socially mediated
Common Context Specific Variables - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Nuanced forms
reinforcers
varying motivating operations
interaction or a combination of multiple reinforcers
Functional Behavior Assessments - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔evaluation process
primarily aimed at identifying the function of challenging behavior for the
purpose of intervention
*the overall process of conducting assessing the function of behavior
Functional Analysis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔refers to a specific form of
assessment that is experimental
Levels of Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Indirect (Informative) Assessment
-interviews, questionnaires, and rating forms
, Direct/Descriptive Assessment
-directly observing the client without interference
-collect data on environmental variables and behaviors
Experimental Assessment
-manipulation of variables of interest
-show experimental control
Reliability and validity of FBA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Indirect assessment: low
level of confidence in reliable identification of function
Direct assessment: moderate level of confidence in reliable identification of
function
Experimental assessment: high level of confidence in reliable identification
of function
What steps/sequence do assessments follow? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔•Depends
on need and population.
•FBAs are typically done with any population who engages in problem
behavior.
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