A behavioral assessment indicates that the problem behavior of a young woman is maintained by others bringing things to her or taking things away following occurrence of the behavior. Since the behavior results in physical injury, the decision to decrease its occurrence has been made. Which is the BEST general approach?
In order to replace a behavior targeted for change with a behavior that topographically does not resemble the target behavior, which differential reinforcement procedure would be BEST?
Which of the following would not be a type of function of behavior identified during a functional assessment?
Behavior analytic interventions that are effective in changing an individual's behavior in a socially important
way are said to have:
Susan recorded data on a student's fidgeting behavior in the following way: She divided a 10-minute recording period into 10-second intervals and recorded in each interval a "+" if the target behavior occurred at least once.
The percentage of intervals of target behavior occurrence was about 45%. The data resulting are most likely to be an
