Unit 1 Flashcards
A natural science that studies functional relations between behavior and environmental events
Behavior Analysis
Everything that an organism does.
The interaction of the muscles, glands, or other parts of a live organism with the environment
Behavior
Behavior that can be observed by others, even though special instrumentation may be required at times.
Public behavior
Behavior that cannot be observed by others; it is only accessible to the organism who is engaging in the private event.
Private behavior
A specific instance of behavior.
Response
The beginning, middle and end of a response.
Response cycle
A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon.
Property
Temporal Locus
Temporal Extent
Repeatability
Fundamental properties
A single response occurs in time.
Temporal Locus
A response occupies time
Temporal Extent
A response can reoccur
Repeatability
A quantifiable aspect of a property
Dimensional quantities
The amount of time between a stimulus and a response.
Latency
The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle.
Duration
The number of responses or number of cycles of the response class.
Countability
The time between two successive responses.
IRT
The ratio of the number of responses over some period of time.
Rate
Change in one of the other dimensional quantities of behavior over time.
Celeration
Configuration, form, or shape of a response.
Topography
The effects or results of a response on the environment.
Function
A grouping of individual actions or reponses that share those commonalities included in the class definition.
Response class
A collection of two or more responses which share a common form.
Topographical Response Class
A collection of two or more topographically different responses that all have the same effect on the environment, usually producing a specific class of reinforcers.
Functional Response Class
The total constellation of stimuli and conditions which can affect behavior.
Environment
Consist of the stiuation (set of circumstances) in which behavior occurs at any given time.
Environmental context
A change in the environment which can affect behavior.
Stimulus
A stimulus which precedes, that is, occurs before a response.
Antecedent
A stimulus which follows, that is, occurs after a response.
Consequence
A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions.
Stimulus class
Changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class.
Functional relation
