Module 3

Question 1

Science

Answer 1

determinism

Question 2

determinism

Answer 2

things do not just happen willy nilly but for a reason in a systematic and functional way
so behavior happens as a result of specific things in an environment

Question 3

empiricism

Answer 3

practice of directly observing behavior

Question 4

behavior analysis

Answer 4

behaviorism: understanding what the underlying components of theoretical analysis is
experimental analysis of behavior: discovering orderly and reliable relations between behavior and various types of environmental variables-why does behavior happen what are the principles of the behavior
ABA: systematic approach to understanding behavior as social importance

Question 5

ABA as a practice

Answer 5

application of behavior analytic principles to improve socially important behaviors

Question 6

Technical Jargon warning

Answer 6

important in the development of a science

important o have plain english equivalents with general public

Question 7

Behavior

Answer 7

what we do that you can see

not good or bad, just what is

Question 8

response

Answer 8

a specific instance of a behavior

Question 9

Response class

Answer 9

group of responses with the same function

can have different responses that lead to the same outcome

Question 10

repertoire

Answer 10

all the behaviors that someone can do

it’s a group of response classes

Question 11

environment

Answer 11

what is happening around someone while they are behaving

Question 12

stimulus

Answer 12

any change of energy that affects an organism

stuff in the environment that has an affect on the behavior

Question 13

stimulus class

Answer 13

any group of stimuli sharing common elements

can have differences but similar and will have the same affect

Question 14

antecedent

Answer 14

what happened before the behavior occurred

Question 15

consequence

Answer 15

what happens after the behavior

Question 16

respondent

Answer 16

involuntary behaviors that happened following an antecedent

Question 17

respondent conditioning

Answer 17

new stimulus can acquire the ability to elicit respondents

Question 18

habituation

Answer 18

diminishing response to a repeated stimulus

Question 19

operant

Answer 19

influenced by stimulus changes that have followed behavior in the past
- really this is learning

Question 20

free operant

Answer 20

the duration, rate, frequency, etc. of behavior absent of any restrictions
- how often a behavior would occur absent of restrictions

Question 21

Three term contingency

Answer 21

concept for expressing and organizing the temporal and functional relations between operant behavior and environment
ABC- Antecedent > Behavior > consequence

Question 22

Establishing Operation

Answer 22

increase in reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, event and an increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object or event

Question 23

abolishing operation

Answer 23

a decrease in the reinforcing stimulus and decrease in frequency of behavior

Question 24

pivotal behavior

Answer 24

behavior that once learned produces corresponding modifications or covariation in other adaptive untrained behaviors

Question 25

behavioral cusp

Answer 25

behavior that opens us up to other behaviors that access reinforcement

Question 26

multiple exemplar training

Answer 26

practice with a variety of stimuli

Question 27

Verbal Behavior

Answer 27

involved social interaction between speakers and listeners

any behavior that’s been reinforced by the behavior of another person

Question 28

speaker

Answer 28

access to reinforcement and control their environment through the behavior of listeners

Question 29

listener

Answer 29

listeners are taught to respond to words and interact with speakers

Question 30

echoic

Answer 30

the stimulus is auditory and the response is speaking (echoing what one hears)

Question 31

tact

Answer 31

the response is controlled primarily by an immediately prior nonverbal stimulus (object, action, relation, etc.)

Question 32

mand

Answer 32

response form or topography controlled by a current unlearned or learned establishing operation (EO)
“request”

Question 33

intraverbal

Answer 33

answering questions or having conversations in which your words are controlled by others words

Question 34

textual

Answer 34

point to point correspondence but no formal similarity

Question 35

transcription

Answer 35

spoken verbal stimulus controls a written, types or finger-spelled response
writing and spelling words that are spoken to you

Question 36

Autoclitic

Answer 36

a verbal behavior that modifies the functions of other verbal behaviors.
ex: I think it is raining. I think moderates the strength of the statement
private events: a part of the environment that is only accessible to you

Question 37

Multiple control

Answer 37

convergent and divergent

Question 38

convergent

Answer 38

multiple variable control one response

Question 39

divergent

Answer 39

one specific variable could result in multiple responses

Question 40

Research

Answer 40

terminology to understand literature

Question 41

baseline

Answer 41

rate, duration, latency prior to any manipulation of environment

Question 42

confounding variables

Answer 42

things you did not control for that might have influence on dependent variable
uncontrolled variables that can or does affect dependent

Question 43

internal validity

Answer 43

we know the independent variable is responsible for the change and not the cofounding variables

Question 44

external validity

Answer 44

how applicable are our results and intervention to a wider population.
ex: we only did this in school setting, is it applicable in the real world?