Section B 1&2: Concepts and Principles Flashcards
Behavior
- What living organisms say or do; implies action
- How people think, feel, and what they say
- Has an effect on the environment
- Larger set of class/responses that share physical dimensions/functions
Response
- a single instance of behavior
- measurable unit of analysis in the science of behavior
Response Class
- A group of behaviors that comprise am operant/have the same function
- Similar behaviors that are strengthed or weakened collectively as a result of operant conditioning
Repertoire
- All the behaviors you can do
- Collection of skills you have learned that are related to a specific task or setting
Environment
Environment in ABA
Can behavior occur without environment?
- An elaborate and always changing universe of events
- In ABA refers to stimulus conditions that are internal and external to the individual
No behavior cannot occur without environment
Stimulus
- Physical events that effect the behavior of an individual
- Internal or exteral
3 Human Body Systems Impacted by Stimuli
PIE
- Proprioceptors
- Interoceptors
- Exteroceptors
Proprioceptors
- Recieve stimulation from joints, tendons, muscles, etc.
- Needed to balance and movement (internal events)
Interoceptors
Recieve stimulation from organs
headache, hunger
Exteroceptors
5 Senses
More often studied by behavior analysts
When do stimuli occur?
Before, during, or after a behavior
Before (antecedent) After (consequence)
Stimulus Class
A group of antecedent or simulatenous stimuli that have a common effect on an operant class
* Tend to evoke or ebate the same behavior or response class
3 Types of Stimulus Classes
- Formal
- Temporal
- Functional
Formal
- Stimuli that share physical features (topographies)
- size, color, intensity, weight, spatial postion
- Can be social or non-social
Temporal
- Refers to time
- Antecendent: stimulus changes that exist or occur before a behavior of interest
*Important for learning and motivation - Consequence: stimulus changes that occur after a behavior on interest
- Important for future behaviors
Functional
The effect of the stimulus on the behaviors
* stimulus changes that are determined by a functional analysis of their effects on behavior
* single stimulus can have multiple functions
* can have immediate, temporary, delayed or long lasting effects
Feature Stimulus Class
- Common topographies
- Common relative relations (spatial)
- Infinite # of stimuli
- Created by: stimulus generalization
Dogs, houses, trees, smaller than, on top, etc.
Arbitrary Stimulus Class
- Evoke the same response, but don’t share a common stimulus feature (don’t look alike)
- Limited # of stimuli
- Created by stimulus equivalence
fruits (apples and bananas) 50%, 05. 1/2, etc.
