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Task List A Flashcards

1
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A science is based on the use of learning principles to improve socially important behavior.

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ABA

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Purpose of Science

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To find truths in nature, which are universally understood and independent of any group’s beliefs and/or opinions.
To understand the subject that is being studied. In ABA, this refers to the socially significant behaviors we aim to change
Provides us with 3 levels of understanding

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1st level of understanding
Facts that are derived from systematically observed events
Facts that can be quantified and classified to help us test for possible relationships
Facts that help us identify a hypothesis for further exploration

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Description

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AKA: Correlation, Covariation

2nd level of scientific understanding

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Prediction

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AKA: Causations

3rd and highest level of scientific understanding

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Control

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ACRONYM: DPC

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Description
Prediction
Control

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Upon what science is based

The world is an orderly, predictable and lawful place, where everything is cause and effect; if/then conditions.

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Determinism

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Upon what knowledge is built

The act of objective observation and measurement

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Empiricism

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9
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Explain the 5 philosophical assumptions underlying science of behavior analysis
ACRONYM: DEPPS

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Determinism
Empiricism 
Parsimony
Pragmaticism 
Selectionism
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Reliance on the simplest theory requiring the fewest assumptions before considering more complex explanations, you must first rule out the simple and logical explanations.

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Parsimony

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A practical approach to problems in which truth is found in the process of verification

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Pragmatism

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Selection by consequences

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Selections

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AKA; Experimental Analysis

Basic strategies of most sciences

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Experimentation

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Repeating experiments

1 experiment has value, but its not enough

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Replication

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Question the truth

Having a healthy skepticism/ a critical eye about the results of studies/ work with clients

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Philosophical Doubt

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Target the behavior in need of improvement

Must be measurable, including any use of language that’s behavioral (not a description of feelings)

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Behavioral

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Improves socially significant behaviors in real world settings (e.g, social language, academic, daily living, self-care, vocational, and/or recreational and leisure skills

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Applied

18
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Direct and precisely replicable procedures

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Technological

19
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All ABA procedures used should be derived from the basic principles of behavior analysis (punishment, extinction, reinforcement)

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Conceptually Systematic

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AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
ABA requires a functional relationship is shown

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Analytic

21
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AKA: Generalization

Any behavior change that persists across time, across other settings, across other behaviors, and across other people

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Generality

22
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ABA technologies should improve behavior enough that it makes a socially significant difference in the person’s life

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Effective

23
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BATCAGE

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Behavioral 
Applied
Technological 
Conceptually Systematic 
Analytic 
Generativity 
Effective
24
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AKA: spiritual, psychic, subjective, feelings, attitudes, processing
To understand what makes our science behavioral, we have to understand this

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Mentalism

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AKA: Imaginary Construct, A presumed but unobserved process

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Hypothetical Construct

26
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A mythical explanation for a behavior that is another name for the observed behavior

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Explanatory Fiction

27
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Key ingredient in mentalistic thinking. The cause and effect are both inferred from the same infor

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Circular Reasoning

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AKA: Conceptual analysis of behavior

Examines the philopshical, theoretical, historical and methodological issues within science of behavior

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Behaviorism

29
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Research on basic processes and principles and conducted mainly in laboratories

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Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)

30
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Behaviors analysts that assess, monitor, analyze, revise and communicate the effect of their work

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ABA

31
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This refers to many individual in various fields of work implementing ABA procedures within their profession

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Professional Practice Guided by the science of Behavior Analysis

32
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BEAP

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Behaviorism
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Applied Analysis of Behavior
Professional Practice guided by the science of Behavior analysis

33
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AKA: Selection by Consequences

a 3-term contingency with regard to species and survival

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Darwinian Selectionism

34
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Selection by consequences operates during the lifetime of the individual

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Ontogeny

35
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Natural selection in the evolutionary history of species

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Phylogeny

36
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A probabilistic AB- because of C philosophy

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Pragmatism

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