Interpreting functional analysis results using the real-time recording of independent and dependent variables
✍ Scribed by James E. Carr; David B. Hatfield; Jennifer L. Austin; Jon S. Bailey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
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✦ Synopsis
An extended series of functional analysis conditions were conducted to assess the operant function of aggressive behaviors emitted by a 33-year-old female with diagnoses of severe mental retardation and organic psychosis. Results from the primary test conditions were fairly undierentiated, but response rates were elevated in the control condition. Independent-variable integrity data from the control condition indicated that aggressive behaviors were nearly always contiguous with the ®xed-time delivery of experimenter attention. These results are discussed in the context of the current control condition functioning as a possible test for escape from social interaction.