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dc.contributor.advisorDozier, Claudia L
dc.contributor.authorHolehan, Kathleen Marie
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-20T15:36:28Z
dc.date.available2020-03-20T15:36:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-31
dc.date.submitted2019
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16458
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/30089
dc.description.abstractIn a series of recent studies, Hanley and colleagues have evaluated the efficacy of an FA methodology termed the Interview Informed Synthesized Contingency Analyses (IISCA; Hanley, Jin, Vanselow, & Hanratty, 2014), which involves conducting (a) an open-ended interview to determine potential antecedents, consequences, and precursors to target problem behavior; (b) a brief observation based on the interview results; and (c) test and control conditions that involve synthesized contingencies (as determined by interview and observation). However, it is unknown whether synthesis of contingencies is necessary for determining a functional relation between problem behavior and environmental events. We extended Fisher, Greer, Romani, Zangrillo, and Owen (2016) and Slaton, Hanley, and Raferty (2017) by comparing the outcomes of FAs that involved isolated versus synthesized contingencies while controlling for other differences across the FAs for problem behavior of five young children. Next, we compared the effects of function-based interventions based on isolated and synthesized functional variables for each participant. Results showed that synthesized contingencies were not necessary to show functional relations between problem behavior and environmental events, and function-based treatments based on isolated contingencies were equally effective to those based on synthesized contingencies.
dc.format.extent56 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
dc.rightsCopyright held by the author.
dc.subjectBehavioral sciences
dc.subjectfunctional analysis
dc.subjectfunctional communication training
dc.subjectproblem behavior
dc.subjectsynthesized contingencies
dc.titleA Comparison of Isolated and Synthesized Contingencies in Functional Analyses
dc.typeThesis
dc.contributor.cmtememberNeidert, Pamela L
dc.contributor.cmtememberZane, Thomas L
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineApplied Behavioral Science
dc.thesis.degreeLevelM.A.
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1771-5884
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