Descriptive assessments serve to identify the function of the behavior within the natural environment through directly monitoring and recording the setting events, antecedents, and consequences which occur in relation to the behavior (Mayer, Sulzer-Azaroff, & Wallace, 2014). Utilizing an A-B-C analysis the cause and effect relationship of the behavior would be clearly demonstrated which could be inspected for a pattern of antecedents and consequences. Paired with an ecobehavioral assessment, which gives further information through its consideration of those circumstances beyond the immediate behavior and environment which could influence behavior such as ongoing and prior events, hunger, sleep, what was going on in the environment, it could be hypothesized when the behavior is more likely to occur as well as the potential functions of the behavior (Mayer, Sulzer-Azaroff, & Wallace,
Descriptive assessments serve to identify the function of the behavior within the natural environment through directly monitoring and recording the setting events, antecedents, and consequences which occur in relation to the behavior (Mayer, Sulzer-Azaroff, & Wallace, 2014). Utilizing an A-B-C analysis the cause and effect relationship of the behavior would be clearly demonstrated which could be inspected for a pattern of antecedents and consequences. Paired with an ecobehavioral assessment, which gives further information through its consideration of those circumstances beyond the immediate behavior and environment which could influence behavior such as ongoing and prior events, hunger, sleep, what was going on in the environment, it could be hypothesized when the behavior is more likely to occur as well as the potential functions of the behavior (Mayer, Sulzer-Azaroff, & Wallace,