Unit 2 terms

Question 1

Analytic

Answer 1

A dimension of ABA that means that analysts work to demonstrate experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior, or functional relations.

Question 2

Applied

Answer 2

A dimension of ABA that means that analysts focus on changing behaviors that are socially significant and have immediate importance to the client.

Question 3

Applied behavior analysis

Answer 3

The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior, and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement of behavior.

Question 4

Behavior

Answer 4

The activity of living organisms, or what a person does and says.

Question 5

Behavioral

Answer 5

A dimension of ABA that means that precise measurement is collected on the actual behaviors that require improvement, and documentation needs to be taken to show that it was the client’s behavior that changed.

Question 6

Behaviorism

Answer 6

The philosophy of a science of behavior.

Question 7

Conceptually systematic

Answer 7

A dimension of ABA that means that the procedures used to change behaviors are derived from basic principles of behavior

Question 8

Data

Answer 8

The results of measurement, usually in quantifiable form.

Question 9

Effective

Answer 9

A dimension of ABA that means that the behaviors changed improve to produce practical results for the client.

Question 10

Empiricism

Answer 10

The objective observation of the phenomena of interest.

Question 11

Experiment

Answer 11

A carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another

Question 12

Experimental analysis of behavior

Answer 12

A natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by B.F. Skinner. Its methodological features include rate of response as a basic dependent variable, repeated or continuous measurement of clearly defined response classes, within- subject experimental comparisons instead of group design, visual analysis of graphed data instead of statistical inference, and an emphasis on describing functional relations between behavior and controlling variables in the environment over formal theory testing.

Question 13

Generality

Answer 13

A dimension of ABA that means that behavior changes last over time, appear in novel environments, and spread to other behavior.

Question 14

Generalization

Answer 14

A process in which the behavior occurs in the presence of antecedent stimuli that are similar in some way to the discriminative stimulus present when the behavior was reinforced.

Question 15

Maintenance

Answer 15

Continuation of the behavior change for a long period after the termination of a behavior modification program.

Question 16

Natural setting

Answer 16

An observation setting that is part of the client’s normal daily routine.

Question 17

Neutral stimulus

Answer 17

A neutral change that does not elicit respondent behavior

Question 18

Philosophical doubt

Answer 18

An attitude that the truthfulness or validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned.

Question 19

Principle of behavior

Answer 19

A statement describing a functional relation between behavior and one or more of its controlling variables with generality across organisms, species, settings, behavior, and time.

Question 20

Radical Behaviorism

Answer 20

A thoroughgoing form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior- including private events such as thoughts and feelings- in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person and species.

Question 21

Reflex

Answer 21

Stimulus-response relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior it elicits.

Question 22

Reliance on scientific knoweldge

Answer 22

Section 1.01 of the BACB Guidelines; analysts must base their methods of assessment on systematic, objective observations of behavior.

Question 23

Replication

Answer 23

Repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity.

Question 24

Science

Answer 24

A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena that relies on determinism as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as its primary rule, experimentation as its basic strategy, replication as requirement for believability, parsimony as a value, and philosophical doubt as its guiding conscience.

Question 25

Stimulus

Answer 25

An environmental event that can be detected by one of the senses.

Question 26

Target behavior

Answer 26

The response class selected for intervention.

Question 27

Technological

Answer 27

A dimension of ABA that means that the written descriptions for all ABA procedures used in a study are described in enough detail that they can be replicated.