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In Roane et al. (2013), using the structured visual inspection criteria, differentiation among conditions was assumed if               or more of the data points fell above the upper CL than fell below the lower CL

A client engages in self-injury whenever she hears her sister crying in the home. The parent removes the crying baby from the client’s immediate vicinity whenever self-injury occurs. In the future, the client is more likely to engage in self-injury when she hears the baby crying. What is the likely function of self-injurious behavior? 

A client engages in self-injury whenever she hears her sister crying in the home. The parent removes the crying baby from the client’s immediate vicinity whenever self-injury occurs. In the future, the client is more likely to engage in self-injury when she hears the baby crying. What is the likely function of self-injurious behavior? 

In the tangible condition of an FA, the consequence for problem behavior is the; 

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;