All Units Flashcards
The Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Behavior Analysis Service Delivery
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
Domains of Behavior Analysis
The basic foundation for our conceptual analyses and permeates all the branches
Radical Behaviorism
Basic research ; Discovery of basic principles and processes in the laboratory. Uses cumulative records, manipulation of variables and automated recording
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Direct, repeated measurement of behavior
Rate of response as the basic datum
Visual inference (graphing)
Within subject comparisons
4 Methodologies of EAB
Design, implementation and evaluation of systematic environmental modifications to produce socially significant change in the real world (applied research)
Applied Behavior Analysis
Implementation of validated EAB and ABA procedures to assess and improve socially important human behaviors
ABA Practice
Applied Behavioral Analytic Technological Conceptually Systematic Effective Generality
Seven Dimensions of ABA
“Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis” by Baer, Wolf, and Risley, 1968.
Article that defined ABA and the 7 dimensions
The implementation of basic principles to change behaviors of significance to clients
Applied
Behavior is directly observed and measured, usually in the real-life environment
Behavioral
Seeks to identify functional relations between manipulated environmental events and behavior through systematic and controlled manipulations
Analytic
Procedures are completely identified, and precisely described and defined
Technological
Procedures are liked to, and described in terms of, the basic principles of behavior
Conceptually Systematic
An accountable discipline with data-based procedure changes
Effective
Behavior changes achieved should maintain, transfer to other settings and situations, and spread to other behaviors
Generality
Deals with philosophical and theoretical issues and history of our discipline related to these issues
Conceptual Analysis
The set of assessment and behavior change procedures validated by ABA researchers
Behavioral Technology
Past and current behavior is explained as a function of environmental contingencies
Environmental Explanations
Explain behavior by referring to hypothetical constructs from a dimension that is inferred to be inside the organism
Mentalistic Explanations
Circular reasoning
The description becomes an explanation
Explanatory Fictions
Mentalistic explanations
Teleological explanations
2 Major Types of Explanatory Fictions
Summary labels of behavior (such as traits, states, attitudes, diagnostic categories) and other hypothetical constructs are used to explain behavior
Mentalisms
Future events are mistakenly used to explain behavior
Teleological Explanations
Focus on the structure of language
Traditional Views of Language
Focus on the function of language
Skinnerian View of Language
Operant behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons
Verbal behavior
Speaking Signing Pointing Writing Gesturing Touching
Forms of Verbal Behavior
The individual emitting the verbal response
Speaker
The individual the speaker interacts with
Listener
Usually provides the antecedents and consequences for the speaker’s verbal behavior
Role of the Listener
Composed of listeners who belong to a trained verbal community
Audience
The type of selection involved in the evolution of verbal behavior
Cultural Selection
Tact Mand Duplic Codic Intraverbal
Elementary Verbal Operants
Naming, labeling, describing
Under the antecedent control of a non-verbal stimulus
Tact
Requesting, asking, commanding
Under the antecedent control of an establishing operation (EO)
Mand
Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence and with formal similarity to the response
Duplic
Echoics
Copying a text
Mimetics
Types of Duplics
The repeating of a vocal verbal unit
Repeating, Vocal imitation
Echoic
Has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity to the written verbal stimulus
Copying a Text
The imitation of a physical movement that is also a non-vocal verbal unit (Motor imitation)
Mimetic
Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence but without formal similarity
Codic
Textual
Taking dictation
Finger spelling words heard
Saying words seen finger spelled
Types of Codics
Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli without point-to-point correspondence and with no formal similarity
Intraverbal
When the strength of a single response is a function of more than one variable
Multiple Control
Under the antecedent control of a mand to comply
Receptive Language
The speaker selects a stimulus in the environment by pointing or finding a picture and handing it to the listener
Selection-Based Verbal Behavior
The listener discriminates what the speaker is “saying” based on topography of the verbal behavior
Topography-Based Verbal Behavior
An operant class that includes within it other classes that can themselves function as operants
Higher-Order Class
A higher-order operant response classe that is under the control of verbal antecedent stimuli (known as rules)
Rule-Governed Behavior
Alter the evocative or abative effect of other antecedent stimuli
Function-Altering Effects of Rules
Behavior acquired via immediate reinforcement contingencies
Contingency-Shaped Behavior
Used to categorize stimuli that have multiple functions ; Cover various functions of stimuli
Omnibus Terms
Aversive stimulus
Appetitive stimulus
2 Omnibus terms commonly used by behavior analysts
Its presentation evokes behavior that terminates it.
Its onset weakens behavior that precedes its onset.
Its offset strengthens behavior that precedes its offset.
It may elicit smooth muscle and gland responses.
Aversive Stimulus
Its onset strengthens behavior that precedes its onset.
Its offset weakens behavior that precedes its offset.
It abates behavior that removes it.
It may elicit smooth muscle and gland responses.
Appetitive Stimulus
A sequence of responses in which each response produces a stimulus change that functions as conditioned reinforcement for that response and as a discriminative stimulus for the next response in the chain.
Behavior Chain
The spread of the effects of reinforcement to responses outside the limits of an operant class.
Induction
The differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a target behavior.
Shaping
The terminal target response is a distinct topography - a different response - than the response that is currently occurring.
Shaping Across Topographies
The terminal target response is similar in form to the initial response, but varies across some dimension, such as rate or duration.
Shaping Within Topographies
Magnitude
Quantity
Duration
Parameters of Reinforcement
The rule that describes or specifies which responses will be followed by reinforcement and which will not.
Schedule of Reinforcement
Reinforcement occurs each and every single time the behavior occurs ; used to establish or strengthen behavior.
Continuous Reinforcement
Some responses are reinforced and some are not ; used to maintain already established behavior.
Intermittent reinforcement
Reinforcement is delivered after a certain number of responses.
Ratio
Reinforcement is delivered for the FIRST response after a certain amount of time since the previous reinforcement.
Interval
The number of responses, or amount of time, remains the same.
Fixed
The number of responses, or amount of time, is random. but centers around (i.e., averages out to) a particular value.
Variable
A restriction placed on an internal schedule requiring that the response occur within a specified time limit following the interval to be eligible for reinforcement.
Limited Hold
All or none schedules, as they produce a pause in responding immediately after reinforcement. which is followed by a burst of responding. Pauses tend to be longer the thinner the schedule.
FR schedules
Produce steady and high rates of responding.
VR schedules
A behavioral effect associated with abrupt increases in ratio requirements when moving from denser to thinner reinforcement schedules.
Ratio Strain
Scalloped :
Produce a pause in responding immediately after reinforcement, which is followed by a gradual increase in the rate of responding, with the highest rates at the time closest to reinforcement.
FI schedules
Produce steady, low to moderate rates of responding.
VI schedules
A preferred stimulus is delivered at a point in time without a response requirement.
Time-based schedules
Reinforcement occurs if and only if rate of response is equal to or greater than a specified value.
Differential Reinforcement of a High Rate of Responding (DRH)
The contingency for reinforcement is governed by the time elapsed between successive responses (as opposed to responses per unit of time).
DRH-IRT schedules
Consist of two or more schedules operating simultaneously but independently of each other, each for a different response.
Concurrent schedules
Consist of two or more alternating schedules, each associated with a different stimulus.
Multiple schedules
The same as a multiple schedule except that there are no different stimuli associated with each component schedule.
Mixed schedules
A conditioned reinforcer is produced by completion of the response requirements for that component schedule in the chain.
Chained schedules
Similar to chained schedules but with no discriminative stimuli in the links of the chain.
Tandem schedules
A change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule.
Behavioral Contrast
States that organisms match relative rates of behavior to relative rates of reinforcement.
Matching Law
If the consequence occurs now, how likely is it to be effective as reinforcement or punishment for that behavior.
Value
The contrast between an “available” and “unavailable” condition.
Differential availability
An antecedent condition, operation or stimulus that alters the effectiveness of a consequence and has a momentary effect on a dimension of behavior.
Motivating operation
Value-Altering Effect and Behavior-Altering Effect
2 General Effects of MO
An alteration (increase or decrease) in the momentary effectiveness of a reinforcer or punisher.
Value-altering effect
Establishing Effect
Abolishing Effect
2 Value-altering effects of MOs
An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced or punished by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
Behavior-altering effect of MOs
Evoke behavior or Abate behavior
2 Behavior-altering effects of MOs
Alter the effectiveness of SDs and widen or narrow the stimulus generalization gradient.
Additional effects of MOs
Establishing operations (EO) and Abolishing Operations (AO)
2 General types of MOs
Provenance of the value-altering effect and the type of consequence whose value is altered.
2 Variables for classifying MOs
A motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of the reinforcer or punisher and may evoke or abate behavior.
Establishing operation (EO)
A motivating operation that decreases the effectiveness of a reinforcer or punisher and may evoke or abate behavior.
Abolishing operation (AO)
Reinforcer Establishing Effect and Evocative Effect
2 Effects of EOs related to reinforcement
Reinforcer Abolishing Effect and Abative Effect
2 Effects of AOs related to reinforcement
MOs that alter the effectiveness of reinforcers but only as a result of the individual organism’s history (are learned).
Conditioned Motivating Operations (CMOs) for reinforcement
Conditioned Establishing Operations for reinforcement and Conditioned Abolishing Operations for reinforcement.
2 General Types of CMOs for reinforcement
4 types of unlearned environment-behavior relations
Reflexes, Kinesis, Taxis and Fixed action patterns
A simple relation between an antecedent stimulus and a reflex response
Reflex
To strongly, consistently, and reliably evoke
Elicit
A simple relation between a specific stimulus and a specific innate, involuntary response
Unconditioned Reflex
Patellar reflex, eye blink reflex, lachrymal reflex, pupillary reflex, respiratory reflex, sneeze reflex, cough reflex, rooting reflex, sucking reflex, salivation reflex, swallowing reflex, peristalsis reflex, reverse peristalsis reflex, reflex related to low/high temperature, reflex to loud sound, withdrawal reflex, activation
Examples of Human reflexes
A stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response without prior learning
Unconditioned stimulus
A response that is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus without prior learning
Unconditioned response
A temporary reduction in reflex response due to repeated presentations of the eliciting stimulus
Habituation