Technical definition, clinical ABA application, discriminative non-examples, and test-day traps for behavior analysis candidates.
An experimental method in which antecedents and consequences representing those in the person's natural environment are arranged within an analog laboratory or clinical setting so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured.
An analyst alternates between Attention, Demand (Escape), Alone (Automatic), and Play (Control) test conditions in 10-minute blocks using a multielement design.
Asking teachers to complete a 16-item questionnaire about why a child acts out (indirect assessment, not functional analysis).
High rates of behavior exclusively in the Alone condition suggest automatic reinforcement. Differentiated high rates in Demand suggest escape/avoidance.
During an analog functional analysis, a client exhibits near-zero rates of head-banging during Play, Attention, and Demand conditions, but displays consistently elevated rates during the Alone condition. What is the indicated maintaining function?
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