THE DEVELOPMENT OF FALSE‐POSITIVE OUTCOMES DURING FUNCTIONAL ANALYSES OF PROBLEM BEHAVIOR |
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| Authors: | Joshua Jessel Nicole L. Hausman Jonathan D. Schmidt Lily C. Darnell SungWoo Kahng |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Western New England University, Springfield, MA, USA;3. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD |
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| Abstract: | False‐positive outcomes of functional analyses exist when exposure to the consequences in a condition strengthens a relation that did not previously exist. Two functional analyses (aggression and spitting) were conducted with a child with an intellectual disability. High rates of problem behavior occurred immediately in the attention condition of the functional analysis across response topographies, suggesting a clear functional response class. However, rates of aggression and spitting increased in the demand condition, following the initial block of sessions, indicating the possible creation of a novel contingent relation for spitting. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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