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Which of the following elements should be considered when determining if sufficient experimental control has been demonstrated in an FA?

A client steals food from the kitchen fridge when no one is looking. Upon success in obtaining food and eating it, the group home staff notice there is often food missing from the fridge. What is the likely maintaining variable for the client’s food stealing behavior? 

This is used to identify a functional relation between the IV in one or more test conditions and the DV (occurrence of problem behavior).

A client steals food from the kitchen fridge when no one is looking. Upon success in obtaining food and eating it, the group home staff notice there is often food missing from the fridge. What is the likely maintaining variable for the client’s food stealing behavior? 

A client engages in aggression whenever the parent comes home with bags of groceries and starts to unpack the groceries. The parent provides the client with her favorite packet of cookies when the aggression occurs. In the future, the client is more likely to engage in aggression when she sees the parent unpacking groceries. What is the SD (discriminative stimulus) for aggressive behavior?  

When conducting a functional analysis, the assessor will often wear a different colored T-shirt during each of the conditions. This is incorporated to improve; 

When multiple persons score the same client using the same tool and then compare each scorer’s results against one another, one can evaluate this; 

When conducting a functional analysis, the assessor will often wear a different colored T-shirt during each of the conditions. This is incorporated to improve; 

Which FA condition tests for an immediate sensory (automatic positive reinforcement) function?

A client engages in aggression whenever the parent comes home with bags of groceries and starts to unpack the groceries. The parent provides the client with her favorite packet of cookies when the aggression occurs. In the future, the client is more likely to engage in aggression when she sees the parent unpacking groceries. What is the likely function of aggressive behavior?