5011 unit1 Flashcards
Behavior analysis
A natural science that studies functional relations between behavior and environmental events
Behavior
Behavior is everything that an organism does. The interaction of the muscles, glands, or other part of live organism with the environment.
Public behavior
Behavior that can be observed by others, even though special instrument may be required at times. Example heartbeat
Private behavior
Behavior that cannot be observed by others, it is only accessible to the organism who is engaging in the private event. Example thinking, feeling, sing, problem-solving.
Response
A specific instance of behavior
Response cycle
The beginning, middle, and end of a response.
Property
A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon.
Fundamental properties of behavior
Temporal Locus
Temporal extent
Repeatability
Temporal locus
A single response occurs in time.
Lantency
Temporal extent
A response of occupies time. Duration
Repeatability
A response can be reoccur.
Countability = Frequency
Dimensional quantities
A quantifiable aspect of a property.
Latency
The amount of the time between a stimulus and response.
Duration
The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle
Countability
The number of responses or number of cycles of the respond class.
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Inter-response time
The time between two successive responses.
Rate
The ratio of the number of responses over some period of time.
Celebration
Change in one of the other dimensional quantities of behavior over time.
Topography
Configuration, form, or shape of response.
Function
The effects or a results of a response on the environment.
Response class
A grouping of individual actions or responses that shapes those commonalities included in the class definition.
Topographical respond class
A collection of two or more responses which share a common form.
Functional response class
A collection of two or more topographical different responses that all have to same effect on the environment, usually producing a specific class of reinforcers.
Environment
The total constellation of Stimuli and conditions which can affect behavior.
Constellation - A group or cluster of related things
Environmental context
Consistent of the situation ( set of circumstances) in which behavior occurs at any given time.
Stimulus
A change in the environment which can affect behavior.
Antecedent
A stimulus which precedes, that is, occurs before a response
Consequence
A stimulus which follows, that is, occur after a response.
Stimulus class
A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, Temporal, and/or functional dimensions.
Functional relation
Changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently after a dimension of a response class.
