Behavioral assessment

When test responses are viewed as _____, an inference is made that the performance is an indirect or symbolic manifestation of some other characteristic.

• Sample
• Sign

To change an undesirable behavior, the clinician must (a) identify the stimulus conditions that precipitate it and (b) determine the reinforcements that follow. Once these two sets of factors are assessed, the clinician is in a position to modify the behavior by manipulating the stimuli and/or reinforcements involved.

• True
• False

The SORC model was made by?

• Kinfer and Phillips
• Kanfer and Phillips
• Kanfer and Felip

Yoman (2008) makes the case that an important first step in functional analysis is to define the “_____________” of desired behavior change. In other words, the behavior therapist asks the client about the hoped-for results and, for each successive response, queries about the intended result of that change.

• Satisfaction
• Ultimate outcomes
• Short-term Consequences

This type of observation includes: Task Accomplishment, Affect Management, Interpersonal Involvement, etc.

• Home Observation
• School Observation
• Hospital Observation

__________ is sometimes referred to as analogue behavioral observation (Haynes, 2001).

• Naturalistic Observation
• Controlled Performance Techniques
• Controlled observation.

Contrived situations allow one to observe behavior under conditions that offer potential for control and standardization.

• Naturalistic Observation
• Controlled Performance Techniques
• Controlled observation.

A behavioral observation schema should include the behaviors that are deemed important for the research or clinical purposes at hand.

• Content Validity.
• Concurrent Validity.
• Construct Validity.

Observational systems are usually derived from some implicit or explicit theoretical framework.

• Content Validity.
• Concurrent Validity.
• Construct Validity.

In mechanics of rating, unit of analysis doesn't need to be specified (Tryon, 1998).

• True
• False