The four functions of behavior
Lesson 23 of 36 in RBT Exam Prep. The start plays free here.
- What behavior happens?
- What reinforcement maintains it?
- Collect data
- Document surrounding conditions
- Escape from demands
- Attention
- Access to items or food
- Automatic sensory reinforcement
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How the lesson starts
A behavior keeps happening. What reinforcement keeps it going? That is the question you ask about its function.
You help with functional assessments by collecting data and documenting conditions that may influence the results. Your observations contribute to the assessment.
A client pushes work away. You remove the task, and pushing increases. Escape from demands is the function. Removing something to increase behavior is negative reinforcement.
Then, in the full lesson
- Attention
- Access
- Sensory
- 2 questions along the way
A question from this lesson
During a task, a client shouts. You stop the task without speaking, and shouting increases across sessions. Which function does this illustrate?
- Access to food
- Access to attention
- Escape from demands
Show the answer
C. Escape from demands. Escape from demands fits because task removal increases shouting. Attention is not added, and food is not provided.
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- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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