12 HOURS!!!
Explain why identifying function is so important to successful behavior intervention programs.
- Base this on your Unit 9 reading assignment and present facts supporting the value of conducting FBAs in the public-school system and why it is important that teachers have the skills needed to conduct them.
- To illustrate the importance of identifying the function of a target behavior before implementing a BIP, provide an example of a target behavior that is being inadvertently reinforced because the function of the behavior has not been identified.
- Ethical Considerations for Assessments and Behavior-Change Interventions
- Explain how you can select and design assessments using the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s (BACB’s) Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts, Code 2.13.
- Explain how you can select, design, and implement behavior-change interventions using the BACB’s Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts, Code 2.14.
- Discuss the two components of the FBA, the indirect assessment and the direct descriptive assessment, and explain how they are carried out. Include the following in your discussion:
- Describe two indirect assessment approaches/tools.
- Describe two direct descriptive assessment approaches/tools.
- Detail how the probable function of a target behavior can be hypothesized based upon the results of the FBA.
- Define the two broad categories of behavior function.
- Acquisition Programs: Shaping and Chaining
- Define shaping and chaining. (Include the three types of chaining procedures in your discussion.)
- Create a simple scenario in which a complex behavior can be broken down and trained using one of the chaining methods. Create a task analysis to illustrate the concept.
- Using one of the components in the task analysis used for your chaining example, demonstrate how shaping can be used to train that one component.
- Reduction Programs: Differential Reinforcement
- Describe the methods of differential reinforcement of alternative (DRA) behavior; differential reinforcement of other (DRO) behavior; and differential reinforcement of incompatible (DRI) behavior.
- Create a scenario in which you illustrate the use of one of the differential reinforcement approaches (DRA; DRO; DRI).
- Describe the methods of differential reinforcement of alternative (DRA) behavior; differential reinforcement of other (DRO) behavior; and differential reinforcement of incompatible (DRI) behavior.
- Generalization and Maintenance
- Define generalization and maintenance.
- Explain the importance of programming for generalization and maintenance.
- Present three techniques that can be used to program for generalization.