Citation

Hernández V, Fernand JK, Vollmer TR, Slocum SK. J. Appl. Behav. Anal. 2018; 51(3): 521-527.

Affiliation

Rollins College.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Wiley-Blackwell)

DOI

10.1002/jaba.464

PMID

29756205

Abstract

We observed changes in the rates of response topographies during the demand condition of functional analyses for participants who demonstrated problem behavior maintained by escape. Over the course of the functional analysis for each participant, the number of topographies decreased from the first to the last session. Additionally, after the first session of the demand condition the rate of responding for one topography increased or remained at high levels while the rates of all other topographies decreased. The implications of these results when conducting functional analysis are discussed.

© 2018 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

Language: en

Keywords

functional analysis; problem behavior; response class; topography