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Educational Psychology
Functional Behavior Assessment
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
11/14/2008

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Learning history
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years of past problem behaviors have served a functional and adaptive role
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Adjustment
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inconsistent environments exacerbate the display of problem behaviors
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Functional Behavior assessment (FBA)
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requried in IDEA range of procedures designed to identify or clarify functional relationships between behavior and environmental events
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FBA is requried if
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the child's behavior is proving to be disruptive and the child has been suspended 10 or more cummulitve days in a school year
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Functions of Behavior are to obtain
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social attention, assistance, communication, acess to tangivles or preferred activities internam stimulation
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Functions of behavior are to escape, avoid, delay
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aversive tasks or activities, other indiviuals, and internal stimulation
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Most common functions of behavior in school settings
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teacher attention, Peer attention (both positive and negative) and to escape, avoidance, delay and reduction of social attention, task demands/assignments
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3 categories of FBA procedures
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1. indirect methods 2. direct-descriptive and 3. experimental functional analyses
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indirect proceudres
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are removed in time and place from the actual occurence of the behavior
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direct-descriptive
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takes place while the behavior is beinge exhibited but its descriptive so its corealtional data
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experimental functional analyses
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manipulation of envirnomental events to determine the function of behavior
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indirect methods include
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records review, rating scales/ checklists, and informant procedures
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direct-descriptive methods include
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ABC narrative observations, direct-observations w/ conditional probbility assessment
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experimental analyses include
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extended analyses and brief functional analyses
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