Interview-Informed Synthesized Contingency Analyses: Thirty Replications and Reanalysis
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Psychology
Date
5-2016
Abstract
The speed with which a functional analysis (FA) provides a convincing demonstration of the variables that influence problem behavior may be termed efficiency. Multiple FA formats have been developed to improve analytic efficiency while the core components of the Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman, and Richman (1982/1994) procedures are maintained. We attempted to illustrate an alternative efficient process for conducting FAs of problem behavior that relied on modifying those core components. In Study 1, we describe 30 applications of the interview-informed synthesized contingency analysis (Hanley, Jin, Vanselow, & Hanratty, 2014), which required an average of 25 min of analysis. The first sessions of these analyses were reanalyzed in Study 2 to determine if contingencies that controlled problem behavior could be identified in only 3 to 5 min. This was the case in 80% of analyses.
Recommended Citation
Jessel, Joshua; Hanley, Gregory P.; and Ghaemmaghami, Mahshid, "Interview-Informed Synthesized Contingency Analyses: Thirty Replications and Reanalysis" (2016). Student Work - College of Arts and Sciences. 42.
https://digitalcommons.wne.edu/casstudent/42
Original Citation
Jessel, J., Hanley, G. P., & Ghaemmaghami, M. (2016). Interview-informed synthesized contingency analyses: Thirty replications and reanalysis. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.316
