EDF 6226 EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Naturally existing contingency - ✔✔Contrived contingencies should be used only
when _____ ____ are not available
✔✔Escape condition - ✔✔A condition in a traditional functional analysis in which
participant behavior is reinforced with escape from demands
✔✔FBA (Functional Behavior Assessment) - ✔✔An assessment that obtains
information about the functions a behavior serves for an organism.
✔✔functional analysis - ✔✔an FBA where antecedents and consqeuences are
arranged so thier effects can be observed and measured.
✔✔Tangible Condition - ✔✔a condition in a functional analysis that tests if the behavior
is maintained by access to specific items
✔✔Source - ✔✔An FBA is used to idenitfy the type and ___ of reinforcement for
behaviors
✔✔Direct observation - ✔✔Indirect observations are "indirect" because they dont
involve ____ _____ of the behavior
✔✔Behavioral cusps - ✔✔Expose the individual's repertoire to new contingencies, new
responses, and new stimulus controls.
✔✔High - ✔✔In a descriptive assessment, events that have a ____ degree of
correlation with the target behavior suggest a functional hypothesis.
✔✔Functional analysis - ✔✔The thearpist is assessing the fucntion of behavior by
systematically presenting antecedent and consquent conditions.
✔✔Descriptive FBA - ✔✔The therapist is assessing the function of behavior by
observing and recording in the natural environment.
✔✔contrived contingency - ✔✔Any contingency of reinforcement (or punishment)
designed and implemented by a behavior analyst or practitioner to achieve the
acquisition, maintenance, and/or generalization of a targeted behavior change.
✔✔Indirect FBA - ✔✔An assessment that obtains information from persons who are
familiar with the organism emitting the target behavior.
, ✔✔independent variable - ✔✔When measuring the effects of mand training on
spontaneous mands, mand training is the ____ _____.
✔✔Attention Condition - ✔✔A condition in a traditional functional analysis in which
participant behavior is reinforced with attention.
✔✔Dependent variable - ✔✔When measuring the effects of mand training on
spontaneous mands, spontaneous mands are the ____ ____.
✔✔Indirect FBA - ✔✔The therapist conducts an FBA where they interview the client's
parents about the behavior.
✔✔Descriptive FBA - ✔✔An assessment that includes direct observation in naturally
occurring conditions
✔✔Can we assume problem behaviors are a symptom of autism? - ✔✔no probelm
behavios can be seen in any individuals
✔✔ABC continous recording - ✔✔an observer records occurences of the targeted
problem behaviors and selected environmental events in the natural routine during a
period of time. may reveal events that occur in close temporal promisxty to the target
behavior.
✔✔Conditional Probability - ✔✔the likelihood that a target behavior will occur in a given
circumstance. can be misleading
✔✔contingency space analysis - ✔✔Identify contingent relations from descriptive data.
Probability is specified for two sets of behavior classes: (1) the target problem behavior,
and (2) other behaviors.
✔✔ABC Narrative Recording - ✔✔data are collected only when behaviors of interest are
observed; recording is open ended
✔✔scatterplot recording - ✔✔A procedure for recording the extent to which a target
behavior occurs more often at particular times than others; involves dividing the day into
blocks of time, and using different symbols on an observation form to indicate the level
of the target behavior (e.g., a lot, some, or not at all).
✔✔Primary advantage of scatterplot recording - ✔✔identify time periods during which
the problem behavior occurs.
✔✔Can we control behavior - ✔✔No, we cannot, but we can manipulate environmental
factors surrounding the behavior an we can control units of behavior: we can control
responses, and we can predict choice.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Naturally existing contingency - ✔✔Contrived contingencies should be used only
when _____ ____ are not available
✔✔Escape condition - ✔✔A condition in a traditional functional analysis in which
participant behavior is reinforced with escape from demands
✔✔FBA (Functional Behavior Assessment) - ✔✔An assessment that obtains
information about the functions a behavior serves for an organism.
✔✔functional analysis - ✔✔an FBA where antecedents and consqeuences are
arranged so thier effects can be observed and measured.
✔✔Tangible Condition - ✔✔a condition in a functional analysis that tests if the behavior
is maintained by access to specific items
✔✔Source - ✔✔An FBA is used to idenitfy the type and ___ of reinforcement for
behaviors
✔✔Direct observation - ✔✔Indirect observations are "indirect" because they dont
involve ____ _____ of the behavior
✔✔Behavioral cusps - ✔✔Expose the individual's repertoire to new contingencies, new
responses, and new stimulus controls.
✔✔High - ✔✔In a descriptive assessment, events that have a ____ degree of
correlation with the target behavior suggest a functional hypothesis.
✔✔Functional analysis - ✔✔The thearpist is assessing the fucntion of behavior by
systematically presenting antecedent and consquent conditions.
✔✔Descriptive FBA - ✔✔The therapist is assessing the function of behavior by
observing and recording in the natural environment.
✔✔contrived contingency - ✔✔Any contingency of reinforcement (or punishment)
designed and implemented by a behavior analyst or practitioner to achieve the
acquisition, maintenance, and/or generalization of a targeted behavior change.
✔✔Indirect FBA - ✔✔An assessment that obtains information from persons who are
familiar with the organism emitting the target behavior.
, ✔✔independent variable - ✔✔When measuring the effects of mand training on
spontaneous mands, mand training is the ____ _____.
✔✔Attention Condition - ✔✔A condition in a traditional functional analysis in which
participant behavior is reinforced with attention.
✔✔Dependent variable - ✔✔When measuring the effects of mand training on
spontaneous mands, spontaneous mands are the ____ ____.
✔✔Indirect FBA - ✔✔The therapist conducts an FBA where they interview the client's
parents about the behavior.
✔✔Descriptive FBA - ✔✔An assessment that includes direct observation in naturally
occurring conditions
✔✔Can we assume problem behaviors are a symptom of autism? - ✔✔no probelm
behavios can be seen in any individuals
✔✔ABC continous recording - ✔✔an observer records occurences of the targeted
problem behaviors and selected environmental events in the natural routine during a
period of time. may reveal events that occur in close temporal promisxty to the target
behavior.
✔✔Conditional Probability - ✔✔the likelihood that a target behavior will occur in a given
circumstance. can be misleading
✔✔contingency space analysis - ✔✔Identify contingent relations from descriptive data.
Probability is specified for two sets of behavior classes: (1) the target problem behavior,
and (2) other behaviors.
✔✔ABC Narrative Recording - ✔✔data are collected only when behaviors of interest are
observed; recording is open ended
✔✔scatterplot recording - ✔✔A procedure for recording the extent to which a target
behavior occurs more often at particular times than others; involves dividing the day into
blocks of time, and using different symbols on an observation form to indicate the level
of the target behavior (e.g., a lot, some, or not at all).
✔✔Primary advantage of scatterplot recording - ✔✔identify time periods during which
the problem behavior occurs.
✔✔Can we control behavior - ✔✔No, we cannot, but we can manipulate environmental
factors surrounding the behavior an we can control units of behavior: we can control
responses, and we can predict choice.
