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