EXAM TERMS Flashcards
Behavior Analysis
A natural science that studies functional relations between behavior and environmental events
Behavior
Behavior is everything that an organism does. The interaction of the muscles, glands, or other parts of a live organism with the environment
Public behavior
Behavior that can be observed by others, even though special instrumentation may be required at times.
Private behavior
Behavior that cannot be observed by others; it is only accessible to the organism who is engaging in the private event.
Response
A specific instance of behavior
Response cycle
The beginning, middle, and end of a resonse
Property
A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon
Fundamental properties
Temporal Locus, Temporal Extent, Repeatability
Temporal Locus
A single response occurs in time
Temporal Extent
A response occupies time
Repeatability
A response can reoccur
Dimensional quantities
A quantifiable aspect of property
Latency
The amount of time between a stimulus and a response
Duration
The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle
Countability
The number of responses or number of cycles of the response class.
IRT
The time between two successive responses
Rate
The ratio of the number of responses over some period of time
Celeration
Change in one of the other dimensional quantities of behavior over time
Topography
Configuration, form, or shape of a response
Function
The effects or results of a response on the evironment