Study stuff Flashcards
Pivotal Behavior
“PIVOT!!” knowing how to carry a couch up the stairs helps you know how to carry a bed up the stairs.
Wood–>Chicken
learn one thing here and it has an effect somewhere else.
learning to cut wood with the grain translates knowing to cut chicken with the grain.
Behavior Cusp
opens door to new type of reinforcement.
learning to crawl–>you can access new things that you couldn’t before.
event recording
every measurement of behavior, continuous recording. ABC narrative, frequency
discontinuous recording
partial, whole, for continuous behaviors
FR FI
post reinforcement pause
levels of scientific understanding
description, prediction, control
operant
Skinner EVOKE/EMIT LEARNED VOLUNTARY ONTOGENY ADAPTION
respondent
Watson ELICIT (Eli responds nicely) UNLEARED REFLEX PHYLOGENY HABITUATION
stimulus generalization
multiple stimuli evoke one response (pens/pencils–> can write name)
Y axis
ordinate
x axis
abscissa
thinning schedule of reinforcement
less SR+
thickening schedule of reinforcement
more SR+
attitudes of science
DEERPP
DEERPP
determinism #followsrules
empiricism #facts #data
experimentation #FA #control
replication #repeatability #believability
parsimony #simple #fewestassumptions
philosophical doubt #healthy skepticism #bullshitdetector
7 dimensions of ABA
BATCAGE GETACAB