BCBA Exam Flashcards
Determinism
The idea that everything happens for a reason; as a result of other events in the environment.
Lawfulness of Behavior
Related to the connected-ness of immediate events on contiguous behavior and it occurs as the result of other, immediate, events in the environment.
Environmental Explanation of Bx
Occurs when a functional relation can be demonstrated between behavior and various types of environmental events by systematically manipulating the arrangement and scheduling of stimuli that precede and follow behavior.
Mentalistic Explanation of Bx
An approach to the study of behavior which assumes that a mental or “inner” dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension
Radical Behaviorism
Makes possible a comprehensive analysis of all human behavior according to known behavioral principles, including those events which are not publicly observable. Employed “private events” (thinking and feeling) as part of behavior.
Contingency Shaped Behavior
A person learns from direct experience with the consequences of his/her actions. Their future actions are
modified in a way based on that past experience of reinforcement and punishment.
Rule Governed Behavior
A person learns indirectly without direct contact with the consequences. The person does not need to experience the consequence directly but learns by reading or learning from others. Consequences are not immediate.
Behavior Contrast
A phenomenon in which a change in one component of a multiple schedule increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the rate of response in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule.
Matching Law
The allocation of responses of choices available on concurrent schedules of reinforcement; rates of responding across choices are distributed in proportions that match the rates of reinforcement received from each choice alternative.
Behavior Momentum
A type of antecedent intervention in which high-probability request sequences are delivered before a low probability request.
Stimulus Control
A behavioral principle; describes a relationship between an antecedent stimulus and a response when the rate, frequency, magnitude, latency, or duration of a response is altered in the presence of a stimulus.
Functional Relation
A statement that describes how two variables (events) are related; where a change in one event can reliably be produced by that specific manipulation of another event.
3 Term Contingency
SD –> behavior –> consequence
4 Term Contingency
MO –> SD –> behavior –> consequence
Respondent Conditioning
Behavior is ELICITED by antecedent stimuli. The result of (S)stimulus – (S)stimulus pairing. Dealing with innate behaviors – behaviors that you’re born ready to perform.
