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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What is Edward Thorndike credited for?

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Law of Effect: behavior that produces a favorable effect on the environment is more likely to be repeated in the future

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What is John Watson’s deal

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Started behaviorism
Stimulus-response psychology

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What did Skinner do?

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Operant conditioning - the consequences of behavior controls the future occurrence of the behavior
Radical Behaviorism

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4
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What did Pavlov do?

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Conditioned reflex, respondent conditioning

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5
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What is behavior?

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what people say and do

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6
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What our girl Marian Breland Bailey do?

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Bridging Stimulus - stimulus used for immediate reinforcement

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7
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Betty Hart

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the 30 million word gap - closing the gap between children raised by professional parents vs. welfare families

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Samuel M Turner

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Behavior modification as it applies to:
- treatment for vets with PTSD
- mental health in black communities
- anxiety in adults and children

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9
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Caroline Bori

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Brazil psychologist, taught the first EAB course in Brazil

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10
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What are the dimensions of behavior?

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Frequency, duration, latency, intensity

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What are the characteristics of behavior?

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  • involves ones actions not labels
  • involves measurable dimensions
  • Can be observed, described and recorded
  • impact on social or physical environment
  • lawful and orderly (deterministic)
  • overt or covert
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What is an overt behavior?

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A behavior that can observed and recorded by another person

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What is a covert behavior?

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a behavior that cannot observed or recorded by another person

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What are the characteristics of behavior modification?

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  • focus on behavior
  • guided by behaviorism
  • based on basic behavioral principles
  • emphasis on current environment
  • Procedures are clearly described
  • treatment implemented by people in everyday life
  • measurement of behavior change
  • de-emphasis on past as cause
  • rejection of hypothetical underlying causes
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What is a behavioral deficit?

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a desirable target behavior the person wants to increase in frequency, duration or intensity

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What is a behavioral excess?

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an undesirable target behavior the person wants to decrease in frequency, duration or intensity

17
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What are the 3 levels of understanding in science?

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Description, prediction, control

18
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What does the description level of understanding mean?

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Observation - collection of facts about observed events

19
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What does the prediction level of understanding mean?

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Correlation - repeated observation that show 2 events covary

20
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What does the control level of understanding mean?

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Experimentation - demonstrating functional relationship

21
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What is a functional relationship?

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A change in one event (DV)
- reliably produced by manipulation of another
- can manipulate things and duplicate
- no extraneous variables

22
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What are the attitudes of science?

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-Determinism: lawful and orderly
-Empiricism: objective observation and measurement
-Experimentation: controlled comparison, functional analysis
-Replication: repeat experiments
-Parsimony: simple and logical
-Philosophic Doubt: continually questioning

23
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What are the defining characteristics of applied behavior analysis?

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Generality
Effective
Technological
Analytic
Conceptually systematic
Applied
Behavioral

24
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What is the definition of applied behavior analysis?

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the science of behavior of organisms
- natural, not social, science
- environment and how it affects behavior
- the science in which tactics derived from the principles applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change

25
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What is EAB?

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experimental analysis of behavior
- basic science/research

26
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What are the 4 domains of behavior analysis?

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Behaviorism, EAB, ABA, Practice (connection to clients)

27
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What are some areas of application for behavior analysis?

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developmental disabilities
mental illness
education and special needs
rehabilitation
gerontology
child behavior management
prevention
sports performance
self-management

28
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What is radical behaviorism?

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Skinner called private events (thoughts and feelings) behavior and considered it as a factor

29
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What is methodological behaviorism?

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excluding private events from consideration as a factor

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