Foundational Knowledge Flashcards
FK-01 to FK-09; FK-13 to FK-16, FK-33, and B-01 to B-02
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 (ABA)
An evidenced based APPLIED science.
ABA
A systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world.
Science
Based on Determinism
Science
3 Levels of Scientific Understanding
Hint: DPC
- Description
- Prediction
- Control
AKA: Correlation & Covariation
Prediction
AKA: Causation
Control
Systematic observations that can be quantified and classified.
Not causal explanations.
Description
Functional relation. The highest level of scientific understanding.
Control
Two events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not necessarily mean one causes the other.
Prediction
Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (the independent variable) results in another event (dependent variable).
Control
6 Attitudes of Science/Philosophical Assumptions of Behavior
HINT: DEER PP
- Determinism
- Empiricism
- Experimentation
- Replication
- Parsimony
- Philosophical Doubt
Facts
Requires objective quantification and detailed description of events.
Empiricism
Cause and effect
Lawfulness: If/Then statements
The world is orderly and predictable
Determinism
Experimental, data-based scientific approach, drawing upon observation and experience.
Empiricism
AKA: Experimental Analysis
Experimentation
Repeating experiments
Replication
The basic strategy of most sciences.
Requires MANIPULATING variables so as to see the effects on the dependent variable (DV).
Experimentation
The method that scientists use to determine the RELIABILITY and usefulness of their findings.
Replication
An assessment to determine if one event caused another event.
Requires that all variables be controlled except the DV.
Experimentation
Having healthy skepticism and a critical eye about the results of studies and your work with clients.
Philosophical Doubt
The simplest theory.
Helps scientists fit findings within the field’s existing knowledge base.
Parsimony
How scientists discover their mistakes, thus making science a self-correcting enterprise.
Replication
All simple and logical explanations must be ruled out before considering more complex explanations.
Parsimony
These elements of ABA were outlined in the FIRST edition of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) in 1968.
7 Dimensions of ABA Published by Baer, Wolf and Risley
BATCAGE
Behavioral
Applied
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Analytical
Generality
Effective
AKA: Behavior Modification (old school term)
7 Dimensions Of ABA
Observable events.
The behavior one chooses must be the behavior in need of improvement.
Behavioral
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- Generality
- Effective
- Technological
- Applied
- Conceptually Systematic
- Analytical
- Behavioral
Defines procedures clearly and in detail so they are REPLICABLE (like a recipe).
Technological