Terminology Flashcards
What is a behavior?
Anything an organism does
(Something a dead man can not do)
Ex. Eat, sleep, yell, listening.
Tact (Tacting)
Say some you see
Ex. You see a pink cup
Says: “I see a pink cup”
Manding
Requesting a need or action
Ex. “Can I have a drink”
“Can you show me where the bathroom is?”
Intraverbal?
Responding the another individual words?
Ex. “What do you want to eat?”
“I want pizza”
Textual (Verbal Operant)
Reading in head “Pepperoni Pizza” then reading it out loud
Transcripting
Writing what you hear
“Pizza”
Writes: P-I-Z-Z-A
Private events
Take place in the organisms skin
Convergent multiple control
3 request- 1 things happens
Echoic
Saying what’s heard
Repertoire
What behaviors a person can do (classification of behaviors)
Divergent Multiple Control
1 request- 3+ things can happen
Environment
Everything happening around the organism (temperature, noise level, people)
Stimulus
Change of energy by receptor cells
Stimulus class
Group a stimuli sharing common elements
Antecedent
What cause the behavior
Consequence
What happened after
(Not discipline)
Respondent
What corresponded with antecedent
Operant behavior
Influenced after behavior
(How often it happens)
Free operant
Frequency
Establishing
Reinforcement
Abolishing
Decreasing
Pivotal behavior
Once learned-> more occur
Ex. Baby learns to walk then baby runs
Multiply exemplar training
Practice of responding
Confounding
Something known or suspected
Interval validity
Control for cofounding
