Behavior Basics Flashcards
Property
A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon.
Fundamental Properties
Temporal Locus
Temporal Extent
Repeatability
Temporal Locus
A single response occurs in time. Locus. Location. Location in time.
Temporal Extent
A response occupies time.
Repeatability
A response can reoccur.
Dimensional quantities
A quantifiable aspect of a property
Latency
The amount of time between a stimulus and a response.
Duration
The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle.
Countability
The number of responses or number of cycles of the response class.
IRT
The time between two successive responses
Rate
The ration of the number of responses over some period of time
Celeration
Change in one of the other dimensional quantities of behavior over time.
Function
The effects or results of a response on the environment
Response class
A grouping of individual actions or responses that share those commonalities included in the class definition
Topographical Response Class
A collection of two or more responses which share a common form.
Functional Response Class
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.
Environment
The total constellation of stimuli and conditions which can affect behavior.
Environmental Context
Consist of the situation (set of circumstances) in which behavior occurs at any given time.
Stimulus
A change in the environment which can affect behavior
Antecedent
A stimulus which precedes, that is, occurs before a response
Consequence
A stimulus which follows, that is, occurs after a response
Stimulus class
A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions
Functional relation
Changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class.
