Quiz 7

The parents of a client have approached you asking to provide services to their child. The parents say that the child has started to hit themselves and they can’t figure out why. You ask them a series of questions such as, “What do you usually do when your child starts hitting themselves?” and “What typically happens right before your child starts hitting themselves?” and so on. Based on these questions you hypothesize the function of the behavior. This is an example of a

The parents of a client have approached you asking to provide services to their child. The parents say that the child has started to hit themselves and they can’t figure out why. You decide that you need to watch the behavior to see what happens before and after the behavior. You ask if you can come into the client’s home to watch the behavior happen in its natural environment. You write down what happens before and after the behavior. Based on these observations you hypothesize the function of the behavior. This is an example of a

Direct observation allows clinicians to determine behavioural function.

Direct observation data can be used as baseline data.

Direct observations can allow clinicians to identify possible contingencies in natural settings.

Direct observation only consists of continuous recording of behaviour.

You can use direct observation data to calculate conditional probabilities which evaluate the likelihood of a behaviour given a specific antecedent or consequence or the likelihood of a consequence given a behaviour.

Direct observation is very objective.

Direct observation may cause you to attribute the function of behaviour to something that is correlated with the actual function of behaviour, such as the attention provided with the removal of a work task

Which of the following is NOT a way to collect more objective direct observation data: