Behavior Basics

Question 1

Property

Answer 1

A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon.

Question 2

Fundamental Properties

Answer 2

Temporal Locus
Temporal Extent
Repeatability

Question 3

Temporal Locus

Answer 3

A single response occurs in time. Locus. Location. Location in time.

Question 4

Temporal Extent

Answer 4

A response occupies time.

Question 5

Repeatability

Answer 5

A response can reoccur.

Question 6

Dimensional quantities

Answer 6

A quantifiable aspect of a property

Question 7

Latency

Answer 7

The amount of time between a stimulus and a response.

Question 8

Duration

Answer 8

The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle.

Question 9

Countability

Answer 9

The number of responses or number of cycles of the response class.

Question 10

IRT

Answer 10

The time between two successive responses

Question 11

Rate

Answer 11

The ration of the number of responses over some period of time

Question 12

Celeration

Answer 12

Change in one of the other dimensional quantities of behavior over time.

Question 13

Function

Answer 13

The effects or results of a response on the environment

Question 14

Response class

Answer 14

A grouping of individual actions or responses that share those commonalities included in the class definition

Question 15

Topographical Response Class

Answer 15

A collection of two or more responses which share a common form.

Question 16

Functional Response Class

Answer 16

A collection of two or more topographically different responses that all have the same effect on the environment, usually producing a specific class of reinforcers.

Question 17

Environment

Answer 17

The total constellation of stimuli and conditions which can affect behavior.

Question 18

Environmental Context

Answer 18

Consist of the situation (set of circumstances) in which behavior occurs at any given time.

Question 19

Stimulus

Answer 19

A change in the environment which can affect behavior

Question 20

Antecedent

Answer 20

A stimulus which precedes, that is, occurs before a response

Question 21

Consequence

Answer 21

A stimulus which follows, that is, occurs after a response

Question 22

Stimulus class

Answer 22

A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions

Question 23

Functional relation

Answer 23

Changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class.