Functional Approach Flashcards
Central to behavioral analysis
Functional approach
Functional approach emphasizes how behavior impacts ___ and how it functions in the ___, and vice versa
Environment
Behavior analysis goal is to identify functional relations b/w ___ and ___
EX. Studying b/c you know in the past that you’ve gotten better grades
Behavior and environment
What is being manipulated; environment
Independent variable
What is being measured; behavior
Dependent variables
Can focus on individual’s past; behavior-environment relations exist on individual level, and behavior changes and develops on individual level
Individual behavior
Looking for trends (are things getting better or worse?); functional explanations are historical (they take time to exert their effects); ensure stable, representative depictions of behavior
Repeated measures of behavior over time
Aims to demonstrate functional relations b’w environment (IV) and behavior (DV) by evaluating behavior of individual across time
Behavior analytic research
Skinner’s writings:
1) changed how people think about ___
2) showed how obtained __ principles mapped to human behavior
3) suggested ways we could __ and change environment in important and impactful ways
Behavior; operant; design
Application of behavioral principles significant to social behaviors; implement science
Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
ABA dimension:
Determined by interest society shows in problem(s) being studied
Applied
ABA dimension:
Subjects that can be brought to do rather than to say; physical events
Behavioral
ABA dimension:
Demonstration of events responsible for non/occurrence of that behavior
Analytic
ABA dimension:
Techniques that make up behavioral application are identified and described as ___
Technological
ABA dimension:
Using existing concepts; not inventing anything new
Conceptual systems
