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Chp 1 Flashcards

1
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Behavior

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An individual living organism’s activity, private or public, which may be influenced by external or internal stimulation

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Response

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A single instance of behavior

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Stimulus events

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Things you see hear small taste or feel. Behavior can be changed by stimulus events

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What is the utility in predicting behavior of others?

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Predictability allows adaptive behavior

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Goals of behavior analysis

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  1. Accurately predict behavior
  2. Discover functional variables that may be used to positively influence behavior
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Functional variable

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Variable that, when changed, reliably and systematically influenced behavior. FV is either biological or environmental or overlap

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Assumptions of behavior analysis

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  1. Behavior is determined
  2. The scientific method is a valid way to reveal the determinants of behavior
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What does ‘behavior is determined’ mean?

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Behavior has a cause or multiple causes

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Occam’s law of parsimony

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The best explanations of behavior are the simplest explanations

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10
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What do behavior analysts focus on?

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Biological and environmental events as opposed to mentalistic explanations of behavior

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Mentalistic explanations of behavior

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People can ‘will’ their own behavior with no outside variables

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12
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Scientists are fallible and scientific enterprise is…?

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Self correcting

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Objective research

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Unbiased scientific approach

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Quantitative

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Occurrence can be counted

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Systematic research

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Implemented exactly as it is supposed to be

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Empirical research

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Evidence must be observed

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Falsifiable predictions

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Experiments are done to prove theories wrong. If something is too precise it could be shown to be incorrect.

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What’re the determinants of behavior

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Nature and nurture

19
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Environmental events

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All of the things you experience through senses

20
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Behavioral epigenetics

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Examines how nurture shapes nature

21
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Research areas of behavior

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The experimental analysis of behavior
Applied behavior analysis
Behavioral service delivery

22
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Examples of private behaviors (mentalistic)

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Thoughts & feelings. “I thought about doing…”

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Examples of public behaviors

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Buying a car, changing clothes

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2 meanings of ‘objective’

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  1. We are susceptible to biases that cloud our evaluations
  2. Behavior science in tentative and always changing w new info
25
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Experimental behavior analysis

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Conducting research in a lab setting w no nuisances

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Applied behavior analysis

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Research conducted in a clinic setting

27
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Behavioral service delivery

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Those who delivery behavior services based on lab and ABA reports

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