Section B 1&2: Concepts and Principles

Question 1

Behavior

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

Response

Answer 2

• a single instance of behavior
• measurable unit of analysis in the science of behavior

Question 3

Response Class

Answer 3

• 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

Question 4

Repertoire

Answer 4

• All the behaviors you can do
• Collection of skills you have learned that are related to a specific task or setting

Question 5

Environment
Environment in ABA
Can behavior occur without environment?

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

Stimulus

Answer 6

• Physical events that effect the behavior of an individual
• Internal or exteral

Question 7

3 Human Body Systems Impacted by Stimuli

PIE

Answer 7

1. Proprioceptors
2. Interoceptors
3. Exteroceptors

Question 8

Proprioceptors

Answer 8

• Recieve stimulation from joints, tendons, muscles, etc.
• Needed to balance and movement (internal events)

Question 9

Interoceptors

Answer 9

Recieve stimulation from organs

headache, hunger

Question 10

Exteroceptors

Answer 10

5 Senses
More often studied by behavior analysts

Question 11

When do stimuli occur?

Answer 11

Before, during, or after a behavior

Before (antecedent) After (consequence)

Question 12

Stimulus Class

Answer 12

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

Question 13

3 Types of Stimulus Classes

Answer 13

1. Formal
2. Temporal
3. Functional

Question 14

Formal

Answer 14

• Stimuli that share physical features (topographies)
• size, color, intensity, weight, spatial postion
• Can be social or non-social

Question 15

Temporal

Answer 15

• 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

Question 16

Functional

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Feature Stimulus Class

Answer 17

• Common topographies
• Common relative relations (spatial)
• Infinite # of stimuli
• Created by: stimulus generalization

Dogs, houses, trees, smaller than, on top, etc.

Question 18

Arbitrary Stimulus Class

Answer 18

• 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.