424 Week 2 Concepts

Question 1

The activity of living organisms is _______.

Answer 1

Behavior.

Human behavior includes everything people do.

Ex. Writing on paper, thinking about writing on paper, etc.

Question 2

A single instance or occurrence of a specific class or type of behavior is _______.

Answer 2

Response.

Ex. Opening a bag of chips refers to the specific time a person opened a bag of chips not the act of opening a bag of chips.

Question 3

A behavior usually refers to a set of responses that share a set of topographical dimensions by a response refers to a specific instance of behavior. What is this a difference between?

Answer 3

Behavior and Response.

Question 4

A group of responses of varying topography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment is ______.

Answer 4

Response Class.

Ex.

Question 5

All the behaviors a person can do, or a set collection of knowledge and skills a person had learned that are relevant to a particular setting or task is _____.

Answer 5

Repertoire

Question 6

The physical setting and circumstance in which the organism exists is ______.

Answer 6

Environment

Question 7

An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells is _____.

Answer 7

Stimulus

Question 8

A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions is ____.

Answer 8

Stimulus Class

Question 9

An environment condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest is _____.

Answer 9

Antecedent

Question 10

A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest is ______.

Answer 10

Consequence.

-some consequences, especially those that are immediate and relevant to current motivational states, have significant influence on future behavior, others have little effect.

Question 11

The applied labels to observe is ______.

Answer 11

Measurement