Behavioural Assessment Fluency Terms
Core Ethical Principles and Determining Need for Services
Dual Relationship
Conflict Of Interest
Behavioural Assessment
Behavioural Excess
Behavioural Deficit
Indirect Methods
Direct Methods
Relationship in which an individual serves two potentially conflicting roles
Situation in which one party has a vested interest in the outcome of a
particular situation
A range of methods used to identify behaviours targeted for change,
quantitative and qualitative features of behaviours, and the variables
influencing behaviours
Behaviour that is problematic because of the nature of the behaviour or the
frequency, duration, or intensity of the behaviour
Behaviour that is missing from the person’s repertoire
Data collection strategies that do not involve direct observation
Data collection strategies that involve direct observation
Contingency and Functions
Contingency
Function
Socially Mediated Consequence
Non-Socially Mediated
Consequence
Automatic Reinforcement
SD
Functional Behaviour Assessment
(FBA)
Dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behaviour and
controlling variables
The purpose the behaviour serves; the reinforcer for behaviour
Consequence that requires the behaviour of another person in order to
access the stimuli
Consequence that the person can access by oneself (i.e. without the help of
another person)
Situation in which the organism can access reinforcement without the
mediation of another organism
Antecedent that sets the occasion for behaviours to occur because it is
associated with the availability of reinforcement
The process of identifying the contingencies for behaviour
Indirect and Informant Assessment
Indirect Assessment
Descriptive Assessment
Functional Analysis
Informant Assessment
Setting Events
Rating Scales, Checklists And
Questionnaires
Records Review
Gathering information from others to form hypotheses about relevant
contingencies
Direct observation methods to identify correlational relationships between
behaviour and specific environmental events
Experimental manipulation of environmental stimuli to show causal
relationship between behaviour and environmental stimuli
Interviewing people who know something about the behaviour of interest in
order to gain an understanding of relevant contingencies
Events that do not immediately precede behaviour but may influence its
occurrence
Instruments that may be used to gain an understanding of relevant
contingencies
A review of previous client records (e.g. previous intervention plans,
individual education plans (IEPs), psychological reports) that may provide
a historical context for the behaviour
Summary Statement
A statement in which you form a hypothesis about why a particular
behaviour occurs
Descriptive Assessment
Narrative ABC Recording
Continuous ABC Recording
Conditional Probability (CP)
Scatterplot
Descriptive assessment that involves recording potentially relevant
antecedent and consequent events each time the target behaviour(s)
occur(s)
Descriptive assessment that involves recording potentially relevant
antecedent and consequent events regardless of whether the target
behaviour occurred.
Statistic that reveals the proportion of behaviour that occurred in the
presence of certain environmental events or the proportion of events that
were associated with behaviour.
Recording strategy that shows temporal patterns of behaviour.
Functional Analysis
Contingent Attention Condition
Contingent Escape Condition
Contingent Tangible Condition
Alone Condition
Control Condition
Analogue FA
Naturalistic FA
FA condition in which each time the problem behaviour occurs, social
attention is given to the person
FA condition in which a series of demands are placed on the person, but if
the problem behaviour occurs, then the demand is removed
FA condition in which problem behaviour results in access to a preferred
item
FA condition in which the person is placed in an austere environment
without access to social reinforcement
FA condition in which all consequences that could be maintaining the
behaviour are present
FA in which exposure to conditions occurs outside the natural environment
FA in which exposure to conditions occurs within the natural environment
Variations of Functional Analysis
Single Function FA
Brief FA
Pairwise Analysis
Extended FA
Extended Alone Analysis
Trial-Based FA
Interview-Informed Synthesised
Contingency Analysis (IISCA)
FA in which one particular condition is compared to the control condition
Abbreviated FA in which the individual is exposed to each condition 1-2
times; usually also includes a contingency reversal
FA that involves sequential testing of test/control pairs
FA that involves extending one or more of the FA conditions across a
larger period of time (within or across sessions)
FA in which repeated exposure to the alone condition is conducted to test
for automatic reinforcement
FA in which a series of brief probes of test and control contingencies are
presented
FA strategy that bases test condition selection on an informant assessment
and brief observation, and whereby multiple consequences might be tested
in a single test condition
Structural Analysis
Structural Analysis (SA)
The manipulation of contextual/antecedent variables to identify stimuli that
evoke target behaviours
Assessing Skill Strengths and Deficits
“Can’t Do” Problem
“Won’t Do” Problem
Performance Discrepancy
Situation in which a person lacks the skills to do the behaviour; the
behaviour; the behaviur does not exist in the repertoire
Situation in which the person has the behaviour within his or her repertoire,
but it doesn’t occur at sufficient strength
Mismatch between the behaviour that needs to occur and the behaviour that
is currently occurring