Cooper Chapter 1 Flashcards
A scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that is practical and applicable.
Applied Behavior Analysis
A systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world.
Science
To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study. In ABA the phenomena are socially important behaviors.
Purpose of Science
Description Prediction Control
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Levels of Scientific Understanding
Systematic Observations that can be quantified and classified- NOT CASUAL OBSERVATION
Description
Two events may regularly occur at the same time
This does not mean one causes the other
Prediction
Functional Relation- THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING- experimental demonstration that manipulating 1 event (i.e., independent variable) results in the another event (i.e., dependent variable
Control
Determinism- Empiricism- Experimentation- Replication Parsimony- Philosophical Doubt
DEER PP
6 Attitudes of Science/ Philosophical Assumption of Behavior
Cause and Effect
Lawfulness If/then statements
The world is orderly and predictable
Determinism
FACTS.
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation and experience.
Requires objective quantification and detailed description of events.
Empiricism
The basic of most sciences
Requires manipulating variables so as to see the effects on the Dependent Variable (DV)
An assessment to determine if 1 event caused another event.
Requires that all variables be controlled except the DV.
Experimentation (AKA: Experimental Analysis)
Repeating Experiments.
The method that scientists use to determine the reliability and usefulness of their findings.
How scientists discover their mistakes, this making science a self correcting enterprise.
Replication
The simplest theory
All simple and logical explanations must be ruled out before considering more complex explanations.
Helps scientists fit findings within the fields existing knowledge base.
Parsimony
Having healthy skepticism and a critical eye about the results of studies and your work with clients.
Philosophical Doubt
Behavioral, Applied, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Analytical, Generality, Effective
BATCAGE = 7 dimensions of ABA