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| The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills Revised; criterion referenced skill assessment developed by James Partington |
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| a simulated or hypothetical setting designed to mimic a real-life, natural setting |
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| Antecedent vs. consequence |
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| an antecedent is a stimulus or event that immediately precedes the behavior while a consequences is a stimulus or event that follows a behavior |
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| notes symptoms and characteristics perceived to be present |
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| Conditional Probabilities |
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| the likelihood that a target behavior will occur in a given circumstance |
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| gaining explicit permission prior to any assessment or treatment is provided. Includes 1) information, 2) capacity, and 3) voluntariness |
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| when overt behavior is used to measure covert behavior (i.e. measuring on-task by recording data on the students physical orientation) |
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| private behaviors; occur within the skin or that are unable to be observed |
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| observing and assessing behavior as it is naturally occurring (direct observations in natural settings, direct observation in analogue settings, self-report) |
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| an elementary verbal operant that has point to point correspondence and formal similarity with the sample |
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| Ecobehavioral/multidimensional assessment |
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| an assessment protocol that acknowledges complex interrelationships between environment and behavior - a method for obtaining data across multiple settings and persons |
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| a structured interview tool developed by ONeill and colleagues in 1997; used to gather information regarding problem behaviors and potentially relevant variables that may be associated |
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| a teacher completed checklist that could be used to develop hypothesis statements about functional relations between problem behavior and environmental variables |
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| Functional Assessment Observation Form; developed by ONeil and colleagues (1997); used to collect direct observation data |
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| a 16 item checklist conducted to identify a hypothesis statement regarding problem behavior functions include social (attention/preferred items), social (escape form tasks/activities), automatic (sensory), and automatic (pain attenuation) |
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| an analysis of the purspoes (functions) of problem behavior, wherein antecedents and consequences representing those in the persons natural routines are arranged within an experimental design so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured |
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| Functional Behavior Assessment |
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| a systematic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a person |
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| when the introduction of the independent variable reliably and predictable alters the dependent variable and is a result of no other factors (e.g. confounds) |
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| a statement of prediction regarding the outcome of a study or the function of a behavior |
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| when a behavior is assessed at a time and or place that is removed from its actual occurrence (structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, or questionnaires used to obtain information form people who are familiar with the person exhibiting the problem behavior) |
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| gaining explicit permission prior to any assessment or treatment is provided. Includes 1) information, 2) capacity, and 3) voluntariness |
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| an indirect assessment; may be structured or unstructured; conducted in order to gather historical information, biological information, and medical information and to identify potential maintaining variables of behavior |
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| an elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus and has formal similarity with the sample |
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| the degree to which two independent observers report the same results when observing a given behavior. |
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| an elementary verbal operant evoked by a motivating operation and specifies its own reinforcer |
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| professional who is responsible for reporting to DCF any suspected instances of child abuse or neglect or any instances where an individual will likely cause harm to him or others and protective measures are not in place |
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| developed by Durand and Crimmins; 16 item rating scale implemented like a questionnaire that accesses social attention, tangibles, escape, and sensory |
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| a data sampling procedure wherein time is broken up into specific intervals and the observer records whether or not the behavior occurs at the specific moment at the end of each interval. |
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| settings in which an individual would typically behavior / function |
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| behavior that can be directly observed |
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| interviewskills; Paraphrasing, Attending, Clarifying, Eliciting, Refecting, and Summarizing |
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| Partial Interval Recording |
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| a data sampling procedure wherein the time is broken up into specific intervals and the observer records whether or not a target behavior occurred at least once during a given interval. |
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| 25 item rating scale assessing attention, escape, non-social, physical, and tangible; developed by Vollmer and Matson |
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| estimates the degree to which the symptom or characteristic is present |
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| the extent to which repeated measurement of the same behavior yields the same values |
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| Designed to help identify patterns of responding over time in natural settings |
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| the act of measuring ones own behavior. |
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| data that represent an individuals perceptions of their own behavior across varying dimensions |
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| repeated and systematic presentation and removal of an independent variable while holding all other variables constant |
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| an elementary verbal operant evoked by a non-verbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement |
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| a measure of the appropriateness of a behavior given a specific context |
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| the extent to which a measurement procedure actually measures what it is intended to measure |
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| a norm referenced assessment tool used to determine skills levels in the following areas: language, daily living skills, social skills, and gross and fine motor skills. Information is gathered regarding an individual by interviewing caregivers through a structured questionnaire. |
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| a data sampling procedure wherein the time is broken up into specific intervals and the observer records whether or not a target behavior occurred throughout the entire interval. |
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