Unit 1 Flashcards
Behavior
Behavior is everything that organism does the interaction of the muscle glands, or other parts of a live organism with the environment
Behavior analysis
A natural science that studies functional relations between behavior and environment events
Public behavior
Behavior that can be observed by others, even though special instrumentation may be required at times.
Private behavior
Behavior that cannot be observed by others; it is only acceptable to the organism who is engaging in the private event.
Response
A specific instance of behavior
Response cycle
The beginning, middle, and end of a response.
Property
A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon.
Fundamental properties
Temporal locus, temporal extent, repeatability,
Temporal locus
A single response occurs in time.
Temporal extent
A response occupies time.
Repeatability
Response can reoccur
Dimensional qualities
A quantifiable aspect of a property
Latency
The amount of time between a stimulus and response
Duration
The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle
Countability
The number of responses of number of responses or number of cycles of the response class