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Applied Behavior Analysis
Science devoted to understanding and improving socially significant behavior.
Development of treatment for improving behavior
Behaviorism
Philosophy of the science of behavior.
People learn through interactions of environment
Determinism
The universe is lawful
Ideology that everything happens for a reason
Behavior is not random.
Empiricism
The practice of objective observation and measurement
Based on facts
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Scientific approach to the study of behavior
Basic behavioral research, laboratory-based
Functional Analysis
- Functional relationship between environmental variables and behavior
- Experimentally arranged antecedents and consequences to determine problem behavior
Mentalism
Study of behavior which assumes that a mental or inner dimension exists
internal feelings and thoughts affect behavior
Pragmatism
Assesses the truthfulness of a theory
Dealing with problems in the most practical way
Radical Behaviorism
Studies how behavior is influenced by both internal and external factors
Behavior is shaped by environment
Parsimony
Principle of using the simplest explanation of behavior
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Generality
Behavior changes achieved should maintain, transfer to other settings, and spread to other behaviors.
generalization
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Effective
Improving behavior to a degree judged as clinical or socially significant.
Does it work?
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Technological
Procedures should be clear, complete, and can be understood and replicated by others.
Could a novel person replicate the intervention(replication)
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Applied
Target behaviors are of importance to the client and impact their quality of life.
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Conceptually Systematic
Interventions and explanations should be related to the basic principles of behavior.
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Analytic
Demonstrating a functional relation between manipulated events and the behavior
Relationship between environment and behavior
“Functional Analysis”
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Behavioral
The target behavior selected must be directly observable and measurable in the real world.
Observable and Measurable
