topic 1 Flashcards
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What is behaviour?
define: overt, covert
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- overt: objectively measurable
- covert: not observable by others; also called private events
2
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Define target behaviour
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behaviour to be modified
3
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Define Response and response class
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- one instance or occurence of a bhevaiour
- a group of responses with the same function; eg. drinking 1 cup of water from either a glass,waterbottle or from a coconut
4
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Define repertoire
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- collection of all behaviours a person can perform
5
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What is behaviour not?
define: Dead Man Test
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- not a verb; interpretive descriptions of a personality trait
- diagnostic label
- products of behaviour
“If a dead man can do it, then it ain’t behaviour, and if a dead man can’t do it, then it is behaviour”
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How does environment affect behaviour?
explain the cluttered classrom experiement
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- environmental consequences of a behaviour can affect subsequent behaviours
- off-task behaviour: children in the more decorated classroom were more distracted
- similar results were found
7
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What are the three aspects of psychology?
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- theoretical: conceptual thinking, done at a computer, at a desk, in an office
- experimental: basic research, often with animals in a lab
- applied: practical research and treatments to solve a problem, usually on people, in the real world
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What is the three branches of scientific study
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- behaviourism: philosophy of the science of behaviour
- experimental analysis of behaviour/EAB/behvaiour analysis: basic scientific research on the functional realtionship between environmental events and resulting behaviour
- behavioural modification: applying experimentally derived laws of learning to human behaviour, and providing behaviour analytic services to consumers
9
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Define bmod
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- analyzing the relationship between environment and behaviour
- to change the enviroment to modify behaviour
- applied to reach the goal of improving people’s lives
10
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What are some characteristics of bmod
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- defines problems in meaurable terms of behaviour
- treatments work by changing environment
- all aspects are defined
- can be applied by non-professionals
- based on the scientific study of learning, and the two kinds of conditioning (operant and respondent)
- not hypothetical constructs; eg. personality traits
- high importance on accountability
11
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what are some myths of bmod
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- bribery
- mkaes people dependent on external incentives; ruins intrinsic motivation
- outdated
- treatment methods are dehumanizing
12
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What is the difference b/w bmod and aba
define aba
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- aba: usig knowledge about human behaviour to reduce socially undesirable behaviours and/or increase ones
- equivelent
- b-mod as a larger category including aba
13
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Ivan Pavlov
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- respondent behaviours are involuntary; made from the stimuli before it
- stimulus and response form a reflec
- S-R psychology; focused on how enviornmental events and stilmuli affect responses
14
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E.L Thorndike
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- law of effect: behaviour that has a favourable outcome and is more liekly to occur again in that situation in the future
- eg. cat figuring out a puzzle box
- did not coin in the term behaviour modification
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J.B Watson
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- founded behaviourism
- developed methodological behaviourism: the study of behaviour alone (doesn’t included internal, mental state or event)
- rationale: mental events cannot be objectively observed or stuided
- proposed most human activites were learned habits
- S-R model
