Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Science

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A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena that relies on determinism as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as its primary rule, experimentation as its basic strategy, replication as a requirement for believability, parsimony as a value, and philosophic doubt as its guiding principle.

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Mentalism

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An approach to explaining behavior that assumes that a mental or “inner” dimension (often referred to as psychic, neural, spiritual conceptual dimensions or “hypothetical constructs” that differed from behavioral dimensions and that phenomena in this dimension other directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior, if at all.

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Experiment

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A carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomena of interest (dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time (independent variables) differs from one condition to the other.

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Behaviorism

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The philosophy of a science of behavior; various forms of behaviorism.

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Methodological behaviorism

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A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science private events

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Radical Behaviorism

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A form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including private events or public events.

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Pragmatism

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A philosophical position asserts that the truth value of a statement is determined by how well it promotes effective actions.
The primary criterion by which bAs judge the value of their findings.

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Environmental explantation of behavior

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Observable behavior is impacted by changes in observable variable within ones environment (both are public events)

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Determinism

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The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events (are not random)

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Lawfulness of behavior

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Behavior occurs in relation to specific conditions/variables

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Empiricism

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Objective observation of the phenomena of interest (void of individual prejudices, tastes, and private opinions)

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Parsimony

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All simple, logical explanations for a phenomenon under investigation should be ruled out. (experimentally or conceptually) before complex/abstract explanations are considered.

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Defining characteristics of ABA

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Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptionally systematic, Effective, and Generality.

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Applied characteristic

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Behaviors of focus are socially significant and relevant to improvements in the subjects’ language, daily living, social, etc. functioning. (focus is on the importance to the participant, not to theory.)

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Behavioral characteristic

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Is the study of behavior? Is the behavior precisely and reliably measured? Did the subject’s behavior of focus change, or did somebody else behavior change?

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Analytic characteristic

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Demonstration of the functional relations between manipulated events and reliable change in some measurable dimension as the target behavior- this has to do with demonstrating experimental control.

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Technological characteristic

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Procedures/techniques of studies must be conducted and described in sufficient detail for the purpose of replication of said procedures and techniques (as well as results).

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Conceptually systematic characteristic

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Procedures utilized for behavior change (and interpretation of how/why they were effective) are based on the basic principles associated EAB/ Behavior analysis.

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Effective Characteristic

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Strive for quantifiable change in behaviors of focus that have significant clinical/social significance to the subject.

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Generality

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Behavior change is not only significant, but is durable over time in the absence of the treatment procedures, appears in a wide variety of environments, and has an impact on other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention.

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Branches of behavior analysis

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Conceptual analysis of behavior, Experimental analysis of behavior, Applied behavior analysis of behavior, and behavior service delivery.

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Conceptual analysis of behavior

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Represents the philosophies, theories, and methods associated with modern-day behavior analysis, AKA radical behaviorism skinner

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Experimental analysis of behavior (EAB)

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A natural science approach to studying behavior as a subject matter in its own right. focuses on the rate of response, clearly defined measurements, visual analysis of graphed data, and functional relations.

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Applied Behavior Analysis

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The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change.

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Behavioral Service Delivery

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The professional service branch of behavior analysis involves the design, implementation, and evaluation of behavior change programs.

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functional analysis

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A) Denotes demonstrations of functional relations between environmental variables and behavior.
B) in terms of determining the process of problem behavior for an individual, it entails experimentally arranging antecedents and consequences representing those in the person’s natural routines so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured.

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Explanatory Fiction

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A fiction or hypothetical variable that often takes the form of another name for the observed phenomena it claims to explain and contributes nothing to a functional account or understanding of the phenomena, such as intelligence or cognitive awareness as explanations for why an organism pushes the lever when the light is on, and food is available and does not push the lever when the light is off, and no food is available.

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Replication

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A) repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase validity.
B) repeating whole experiments to determine the generality of findings of previous experiments to other subjects, settings, or behaviors.

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Philosophic doubt

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An attitude that the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned.

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Hypothetical construct

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A presumed but unobserved process or entity. For example, Freud’s Id, Ego, and superego.

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Functional relation

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A verbal statement summarizing the results of an experiment that describes the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the operation of one or more specified and controlled variables in the experiment in which a specific change in one event (dependent variable) can be produced by manipulating another event (independent variable) and that the change in the DV was unlikely the result of other factors (confounding variable).