section 1 Flashcards
ABA
scientific approach for discovering the environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that is practical and applicable
SCIENCE: DEFINITION & PURPOSE
a systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world. it is based on determinism
3 LEVELS OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING
DPC
Description
prediction
control
6 ATTITUDES OF SCIENCE/PHILOSOPHICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF BEHAVIOR
DEER PP Determinism Empiricism experimentation replication parsimony philosophical doubt
DETERMINISM
cause and effect
lawfulness
the world is orderly place
if then statements
EMPIRICISM
facts
databased
requires observation and experience
detailed descriptions of events
EXPERIMENTATION
manipulating variable
REPLICATION
can you do it again
determines reliability
its how they see if they have mistakes and then can correct them
PARSIMONY
simplest theory first
PHILOSOPHICAL DOUBT
skepticism and critical eye on results of studies
7 DIMENSIONS OF ABA
BATCAGE behavioral applied technological conceptually systematic analytical generality effective
BEHAVIORAL
observable events
bx in need of improvement
APPLIED
every day life
socially significant behaviors
TECHNOLOGICAL
recipe- replicable
CONCEPTUALLY SYSTEMATIC
procedures used are tied to the basic principles of behavior analysis (reinforcement, punishments, extinction)
ANALYTIC
Functional relation experimentation control causation functional relationship is demonstrated
GENERALITY
generalization
behavior extends to other settings, other behaviors
EFFECTIVE
improves the behavior in a practical manner
improves quality of life for the client
MENTALISM:
its explaining that ASSUMES what they are feeling, thinking
examples are Freud, talk therapy,
BEHAVIORISM
philosophy of the science of behavior
environmental explanation of behavior
4 BRANCHES OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
CASE Conceptual analysis of behavior (behaviorism) ABA Behavior service delivery experimental analysis of behavior
IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV
respondent conditioning with dogs
JOHN BROADUS WATSON
methodological behaviorism
AKA stimulus response behaviorism
S-R psychology
1920 little albert with clanking noise and rat