Episode 166 - The History and Evolution of the Functional Analysis w/ Dr. Jessica Slaton

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

And yea, the functional analysis sprung from the head of Iwata et al. And the results were good. Fast forward a few decades and researchers are still exploring the limits of this game changing assessment tool, finding ways for BCBAs to conduct safer and faster procedures. And to sum up some recent touchstone moments in this journey, we’re joined by researcher and FA history expert, Dr. Jessica Slaton to look at 40 year…and beyond!

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Articles discussed this episode:

Smith, R.G. & Churchill, R.M. (2002). Identification of environmental determinants of behavior disorders through functional analysis of precursor behaviors. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 35, 125-136. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2002.35-125

Thomason-Sassi, J.L., Iwata, B.A., Neidert, P.L., & Roscoe, E.M. (2011). Response latency as an index of response strength during functional analyses of problem behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44, 51-67. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2011.44-51

Slaton, J.D. & Hanley, G.P. (2018). Nature and scope of synthesis in functional analysis and treatment of problem behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 51, 943-973. doi: 10.1002/jaba.498

Warner, C.A., Hanley, G.P., Landa, R.K., Ruppel, K.W., Rajaraman, A., Ghaemmaghami, M., Slaton, J.D., & Gover, H.C. (2020). Toward accurate inferences of response class membership. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 53, 331-354. doi: 10.1002/jaba.598

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:20.1	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts.
0:24.3	Hey, Rob, it's Santa.
0:25.7	And it's me, Jackie, Jackie, Jackie.
0:28.1	Wow, like the famous actress Jack Hay, but with multiple Jack Hayes.
0:32.5	Yeah, that's my new name for 2021.
0:35.3	Jacket, Jacket, Jacket, Jacket.
0:38.1	Oh, boy.
0:38.7	Well, that's great.
0:39.3	I got to keep it interesting.
0:40.8	Yeah, you've got to keep changing it up.
0:42.0	Keep it humble.
0:43.0	You know, I find that to be true about a lot of things in life and in history.
0:46.3	They start one way and then they get bored and you're like, you know, we got to change it up.
0:49.9	Change it all the way up. And you know what? Even though sometimes our segues or our beginnings are unrelated to our topic on our show about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research,
0:58.7	I think this one's actually apt because what we'll be talking about, you know what,
1:01.8	you actually pound? Listeners at home, I got a fake pound from Jackie. We actually are going to be
1:07.5	talking about how things change. And the more they change, maybe the more they
1:11.8	stay the same, but not really. They actually change a lot. And we're going to be talking about
1:14.9	the history and evolution of the functional analysis. And since that's an area that we know a little
1:20.9	bit about, because we certainly have been, you know, practicing for a long time, of course,
1:24.1	we know about functional analyses. It's not something we know everything there is to know about. So we called a guest who does know everything there ever was to know about it.
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