ESP 735 Final Study Guide
Frequency Correct Answer: The number of times a behavior occurred
Rate Correct Answer: How many times a behavior occurs per second, minute, hour, etc.
Duration Correct Answer: How long a behavior occurs during an observation period
Latency Correct Answer: Time between request to start and when response occurs
Event recording Correct Answer: Record how many times the behavior occurs within a specific time
period
Objective is to either decrease or increase the behavior
Should be used with discrete behavior only (had obvious beginning and ending)
Whole interval recording Correct Answer: Count the behavior only when the behavior occurs for the
entire behavior.
Used if the purpose is to increase behavior.
Partial interval recording Correct Answer: Count the behavior of one or more of the instance of
behavior is observed. Used if the purpose is to decrease behavior
Momentary time sampling Correct Answer: Count the behavior when it occurs at the moment the
interval ends
Shows the least representation of the actual occurrence of the behavior among all recording systems
Is most suitable for recording behavior that are frequent or of long duration
Duration recording Correct Answer: Time how long behavior occurs: the behavior should have a clear
beginning and ending
Average duration vs. whole duration
Use stop watch or start/stop time
Latency recording Correct Answer: Time how long before starts responding (the length of time between
the presentation of an antecedent stimulus and the initiation of the behavior)
Example: following direction
Inter observer reliability Correct Answer: Also called inter observer agreement
, To ensure the consistency of data collections a evaluated by having a second observer view the same
time period and collect data separately
Gross method Correct Answer: The percentage of smaller number to larger number
ABC assessment Correct Answer: Assessment that records the antecedent, behavior, and consequence
of events as well as the time it occurred during a session and the duration
Gathering data for the purpose of describing and evaluating the stimuli surrounding a behavior
Conducted by directly observing the student and recording anecdotal data over several observations
Indirect assessment Correct Answer: Anecdotal reporting, parent or teacher reports, interviews, and
surveys
Setting events Correct Answer: Events that precede the antecedent that makes a behavior more or less
likely to occur
Anecdotal reports Correct Answer: Reports from parents or teachers. Stories and recollections of
behaviors
Direct assessment Correct Answer: Scatter plot assessment
ABC data
Direct of observation
Pinpointing Correct Answer: Specifying in measurable, observable terms a behavior targeted for change
Functional behavioral assessment Correct Answer: The process of recording a problem behavior to
collect baseline data, developing a hypothesis, identifying replacement behaviors, implementing
interventions, and identifying the function(s) of behaviors.
Scatter plot assessment Correct Answer: Teacher prepared a grid. Successive days or observation
periods are plotted along the horizontal. Time is plotted along the vertical. Time may be divided into
different increments. As grid is filled in, each cells contains a designation indicating whether the
behavior occurred at a high, low, or zero rate
Antecedent Correct Answer: Stimulus that happens immediately before the behavior.
Consequence Correct Answer: Stimulus presented contingent on a particular response.
Functional analysis Correct Answer: Procedures (usually reversal design or multi-element design) that
test a hypothesized relation by manipulating the variables thought to occasion or maintain a behavior in
order to verify a functional relation.
Strategy of manipulating the student's environment and observing the effect on the student's behavior.
Function Correct Answer: Reason for the behavior
Frequency Correct Answer: The number of times a behavior occurred
Rate Correct Answer: How many times a behavior occurs per second, minute, hour, etc.
Duration Correct Answer: How long a behavior occurs during an observation period
Latency Correct Answer: Time between request to start and when response occurs
Event recording Correct Answer: Record how many times the behavior occurs within a specific time
period
Objective is to either decrease or increase the behavior
Should be used with discrete behavior only (had obvious beginning and ending)
Whole interval recording Correct Answer: Count the behavior only when the behavior occurs for the
entire behavior.
Used if the purpose is to increase behavior.
Partial interval recording Correct Answer: Count the behavior of one or more of the instance of
behavior is observed. Used if the purpose is to decrease behavior
Momentary time sampling Correct Answer: Count the behavior when it occurs at the moment the
interval ends
Shows the least representation of the actual occurrence of the behavior among all recording systems
Is most suitable for recording behavior that are frequent or of long duration
Duration recording Correct Answer: Time how long behavior occurs: the behavior should have a clear
beginning and ending
Average duration vs. whole duration
Use stop watch or start/stop time
Latency recording Correct Answer: Time how long before starts responding (the length of time between
the presentation of an antecedent stimulus and the initiation of the behavior)
Example: following direction
Inter observer reliability Correct Answer: Also called inter observer agreement
, To ensure the consistency of data collections a evaluated by having a second observer view the same
time period and collect data separately
Gross method Correct Answer: The percentage of smaller number to larger number
ABC assessment Correct Answer: Assessment that records the antecedent, behavior, and consequence
of events as well as the time it occurred during a session and the duration
Gathering data for the purpose of describing and evaluating the stimuli surrounding a behavior
Conducted by directly observing the student and recording anecdotal data over several observations
Indirect assessment Correct Answer: Anecdotal reporting, parent or teacher reports, interviews, and
surveys
Setting events Correct Answer: Events that precede the antecedent that makes a behavior more or less
likely to occur
Anecdotal reports Correct Answer: Reports from parents or teachers. Stories and recollections of
behaviors
Direct assessment Correct Answer: Scatter plot assessment
ABC data
Direct of observation
Pinpointing Correct Answer: Specifying in measurable, observable terms a behavior targeted for change
Functional behavioral assessment Correct Answer: The process of recording a problem behavior to
collect baseline data, developing a hypothesis, identifying replacement behaviors, implementing
interventions, and identifying the function(s) of behaviors.
Scatter plot assessment Correct Answer: Teacher prepared a grid. Successive days or observation
periods are plotted along the horizontal. Time is plotted along the vertical. Time may be divided into
different increments. As grid is filled in, each cells contains a designation indicating whether the
behavior occurred at a high, low, or zero rate
Antecedent Correct Answer: Stimulus that happens immediately before the behavior.
Consequence Correct Answer: Stimulus presented contingent on a particular response.
Functional analysis Correct Answer: Procedures (usually reversal design or multi-element design) that
test a hypothesized relation by manipulating the variables thought to occasion or maintain a behavior in
order to verify a functional relation.
Strategy of manipulating the student's environment and observing the effect on the student's behavior.
Function Correct Answer: Reason for the behavior
