Chapter 1 The ABCs Of ABA

Question 1

Behavior analysis

Answer 1

The study of functional relations between behavior and environmental events.

Question 2

Functional Relations

Answer 2

The tendency of one event to vary in a regular way with one or more other events.

If X, then Y.

Question 3

Behavior

Answer 3

Anything a person does that can be observed.

Question 4

Overt behavior

Answer 4

Behavior that can be observed by someone other than the person performing it

Question 5

Covert behavior

Answer 5

Behavior that can only be observed by the person performing it

Question 6

Respondent behavior

Answer 6

Behavior that is most readily by the event that precedes it: reflexive behavior (involuntary)

Question 7

Operant behavior

Answer 7

Behavior that is readily influenced by the events that follow it.

Question 8

Overt-Operant behavior

Answer 8

Walking
Reading a book
Picking up a telephone

Question 9

Overt- respondent behavior examples

Answer 9

The pupillary reflex: when you shine light in someone’s eye, the pupil gets small..
Knee - jerk reflex

Question 10

Covert operant behavior example

Answer 10

Thinking about a meal- you go hungry

Question 11

Covert Respondent behavior

Answer 11

Thinking too much, heart start racing

Question 12

Behavioral repertoire

Answer 12

All things an individual is capable of doing at any given moment:
E.g if you can speak English that’s your repertoire

Question 13

Environmental event:

Answer 13

Any event in a person’s environment that can be observed.

Environmental events are referred to as experienced

Question 14

Antecedents:

Answer 14

Environmental events that occur before a behavior.

E.g: getting bit by a snake… behavior = hate outdoors

Question 15

Consequences

Answer 15

Environmental events that occur after a behavior.

E.g drive over the speed limit- get ticket

Question 16

Learning history

Answer 16

All the environmental events (antecedents and consequences) that have affected a person’s behavior up to the present.

Question 17

Applied behavior analysis:

Answer 17

The attempt to solve behavior problems by providing antecedents, and /or consequences that change that behavior.

Question 18

Medical Model

Answer 18

The view that behavior problems are merely symptoms of an underlying psychological disorder.

Question 19

Symptom substitution

Answer 19

The idea that if a behavior problem is solved without resolving the underlying psychological disorder, another behavior problem will take its place.

Question 20

Daniel’s Dictum

Answer 20

If you think this stuff is easy, you are doing it wrong.