Chapter 2 - Research Methods Flashcards
Something that occurs
Eg. Red Light
Stimulus
Your reaction to something that occurs
Reaction
Type of Observable Behavior
Overt
Type of Internal State Behavior
Covert
Stimulus that Attracts You
Appetitive
Stimulus that Repels You
Aversive
Process that makes something more or less appealing
Establishing Operation
Process of Making Things More Appetitive
How?
Deprivation
By depriving yourself of it
Process of making things more aversive
How?
Satiation
By prolong exposure
Idea of closeness/nearness in time and space
Contiguity
Association of events based on closeness in time of occurrence
Temporal Contiguity
Association of events that are close together
Spatial contiguity
Word for if event A happens, event B will occur
Contingency
What is objective behavioral measurement?
No feeling, only observing
What is unambiguous behavioral learning?
Consistent with time and is very clear
Measurement of frequency of response over a period of time
Rate of Response
Measurement of the force/magnitude of a behavior
Intensity
Measurement of the amount of time the behavior was performed
Duration
Measurement of how quickly a behavior was performed
Speed
Measurement of how long it takes for a behavior to perform after a stimulus
Latency
Measurement of errors/mistake rate
Number of errors
Interobserver Reliability
80% of answer must overlap
When something influences the others
Independent variable influences dependent variable
Functional Relationship
A specific type of research involving the observation of people in their natural habitat
Naturalistic Observation
A specific type of research involving the study of one person or small group
Case Studies
A broad type of research in which we try to control outside variable to understand only the dependent variable
Experimental Research
A specific research where we experiment on a small group where group A gets no treatment and group B gets treatment.
Simple Comparison (AB)
