Unit 1 Flashcards
EAB stands for
Experimental analysis of behavior
EAB establishes
Basic principles of behavior
EAB analyzes
Controlling variables of an individual organism’s behavior
ABA is focused on
Developing new procedures and experimentally validating them
Translational behavior analysis
Fluid movement of discovery between the domains of behavior analysis
Conceptual analysis of behavior analyzes
All philosophical foundations of behavior analysis
Conceptual analysis of behavior seeks to understand
Environmental and genetic controlling variables of human behavior
Behaviorism is derived from
John Watson’s original work
Behaviorism
Theory of behavior consisting of several interrelated ideas
Methodological behaviorism: Attempts to
Reconcile mentalism and behaviorism
Radical behaviorism
Underpinning philosophy of behavior analysis
Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis means
Procedures are validated by ABA researchers
7 Dimensions of ABA: Applied focuses on
Socially significant human behavior
7 Dimensions of ABA: Behavioral focuses on
Behavior in its own right as a target for change
7 Dimensions of ABA: Analytic requires
Demonstration of a functional relation through systematic manipulations
7 Dimensions of ABA: Technological requires
Clear and complete descriptions that can be understood by others
7 Dimensions of ABA: Conceptually systematic requires
Procedures to be related to the basic principles of behavior
7 Dimensions of ABA: Effective requires
Behavior to change in the intended direction and to a practical degree
7 Dimensions of ABA: Generality requires
Intervention effects to maintain and spread to other situations/behaviors
Behavioral technology
Assessment and behavior change procedures
Experimental, applied, and translational behavior analysis:
Tied together through
Conceptual analysis of behavior
4 domains of behavior analysis
1) EAB
2) ABA research
3) ABA practice
4) Conceptual analysis of behavior
ABA practice AKA
Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
EAB methodologies:
D…
Direct, repeated measurement of behavior
EAB methodologies:
R…
Rate of response as the basic datum
EAB methodologies:
V…
Visual inference (graphing)
EAB methodologies:
W…
Within-subject comparisons
7 Dimensions of ABA
Generality, effective, technological, applied, conceptually systematic, behavioral, and analytic
