Functional behavior assessment (FBA)
Lesson 13 of 36 in RBT Exam Prep. The start plays free here.
- What reinforcement is involved?
- What happens around the behavior?
- Your role in assessment
- Assessment components
- Narrative ABC recording
- Descriptive assessment limits
- Functional analysis
- Common functions
- Your role: assist
- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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How the lesson starts
A client drops a task onto the floor. Functional assessment looks beyond what the behavior looks like to its function: the reinforcement that may be involved.
You help collect ABC data. That is one part of a functional behavior assessment, which typically includes indirect assessments, descriptive assessments, and a functional analysis.
Then, in the full lesson
- Write the sequence
- Descriptive limits
- Testing conditions
- Common functions
- Your contribution
- 2 questions along the way
A question from this lesson
You present a puzzle. The client screams. You remove the puzzle. Which narrative ABC entry captures the sequence?
- Client screamed; puzzle presented; puzzle removed.
- Client wanted escape; screamed; felt relieved.
- Puzzle presented; client screamed; puzzle removed.
Show the answer
C. Puzzle presented; client screamed; puzzle removed. Puzzle presented; client screamed; puzzle removed. This records what happened immediately before, the behavior, and what happened immediately after. Wanting escape and feeling relieved replace events with interpretations. Putting screaming first changes the sequence.
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Paid once, no subscription. Ask for a refund within 7 days of buying if you’ve done less than 25% of the class.
- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
Passing isn’t guaranteed. Not affiliated with the BACB. Questions are original, written to the published outline.