Unit 1 Flashcards
everything that an organism does
behavior
Movement of an organism or its parts
behavior
the interaction of the muscles and glands of a live organism and the environment
behavior
If a dead person can “do” it, it is
NOT behavior
dead person’s test
a specific instance of behavior
response
beginning, middle, and end of a response
response cycle
Physical nature of responses
topography
exact form, or shape of the
response, the appearance of the
response, the force involved, and
actual movements involved
topography
A property closely
associated with topography
magnitude
A group of two or more
responses which share a
common form
Topographical Response Class
TRC
Effect of a response on
environment
function
Two or more
(topographically different)
responses that have same effect on environment, producing
specific class of reinforcers
Functional Response Class (FRC)
- Attention-getting Bx
- Food-getting Bx
- Task-Escape Bx
Functional Response Class (FRC)
The effects/results of a response
Function
Configuration, form, or shape of
response
Topography
Behavior observed by others
Public Behavior
Behavior that cannot be observed by
others; only accessible to
the organism
Private Events (behavior)
Fundamental quality of a phenomenon
Fundamental Property
A dimensional quantity is a
quantifiable aspect of a
property. How measured!
Dimensional quantity
A single response occurs in time, in relation to preceding stimulus or event
temporal locus
time between stimulus and response
Latency
a response occupies time
Temporal extent
amount of time between
beginning and end of
response cycle
duration
response can reoccur
Repeatability
# responses or # cycles of the response class
Countability/frequency
time elapsed b/t
end of a response cycle and
beginning of the next
response cycle
IRT (Inter-Response Time)
responses / time
rate
change in
behavior over time,
increases (acceleration) or
decreases (deceleration)
Celeration
Total constellation of stimuli
Which can affect behavior
Environment
Both outside the skin of the
organism and within the skin
Environment
A change in the environment
which can affect behavior
Stimulus
energy change that affects an organism through its receptors
Stimulus
Group of stimuli that share a
certain characteristic
stimulus class
Stimulus which precedes/occurs before a response
Antecedent
A stimulus which
follows/occurs after a response
Consequence
what are never antecedents?
Responses
organic and environmental variables
behavior
- genetics
- physical attributes
- bio-chemical factors
- neurological factors
Organic variables
Current environmental events
and previous
experience
environmental determinants of behavior
future events are never
environmental determinants of behavior
When changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class
Functional Relation
Relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience
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