Guidelines for using the Functional Assessment Observation Form include which of the
following?
a. Keep it simple.
b. Collect data across as many settings and as much time per day as possible.
c. Observation data should be collected until clear patterns have emerged with regard to
relationships between behaviors and environmental situations and events, and
statements regarding the potential functions of behaviors have been confirmed or
unconfirmed.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
The goal of the support plan is to
a. Design a plan that will be both effective and possible to implement
b. Be the perfect plan for that behavior and situation
c. Describe how to change the thought processes of the person with the problem
behavior within the external stimuli that is controlling the problem behavior
d. All of the above
The purpose of a functional assessment is to
a. Gain information that will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of behavioral
interventions
b. Provide a standardized assessment that can be used in a report
c. Make decisions about the individual
d. Decide what the person’s primary diagnosis should be
Immediate antecedent events (predictors) involve
a. Figuring out what happens after the problem behavior occurs
b. The activity the individual is engaged in when the problem behavior occurs
c. Both of the above
d. Neither of the above
A behavior support plan that does not have clearly defined procedures for responding to
difficult situations is
a. Okay to put into place as long as it can be revised
b. Incomplete
c. Complete
d. All of the above
The operational definitions should be clear enough that a person reading the plan
a. Can identify what the person is thinking about when they engage in problem
behaviors
b. Can identify the inner states of the individual
c. Can identify instances and non-instances of each problem behavior
d. All of the above
e. None of the above