HIstory

Question 1

Watson

Answer 1

• Behaviorist manifesto
• only observable behavior
• Nurture debate (all children are blank slates)

Question 2

Skinners

Answer 2

• Private events are behaviors
• discovered operant conditioning, three term contingency, EAB and respondent behaviour
• Studying behaviour is important to improve socially significant behaviour

Question 3

Methodological behaviourism

Answer 3

-Uses objective assessment to operationally define the relationships between events

Question 4

Key dimensions

Answer 4

Applied (socially significant)
analtyic (functional relations)
Behavioural (direct measure)
Conceptually systematic (behavioural principle)
Effective (significant change)
Generality 
Technological (detailed)

Question 5

Myth busted

Answer 5

• Aims to give people equal opportunities
• Reinforcement isnt bribery no one does anything unless there is a reward
• Works with a large range of populations not just autism
• not just common sense many complex interrelated contingencies that have been oversimplified