Unit 9

Question 1

Domains of Behavior Analysis

Answer 1

Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Behavior Analysis Service Delivery
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior

Question 2

The Basic foundation for our conceptual analyses and permeates all the branches

Answer 2

Radical Behaviorism

Question 3

Uses cumulative records, manipulation of variables and automated recording

Answer 3

Experimental Analysis of Behavior(EAB)

Question 4

Basic research; Discovery of basic principles and processes in the laboratory

Answer 4

Experimental Analysis of Behavior(EAB)

Question 5

4 Methodologies of EAB

Answer 5

Direct,repeated measurement of behaviorRate of response as the basic datumVisual inference (graphing)Within subject comparisons

Question 6

Design, implementation and evaluation of systematic environmental modifications to produce socially significant change in the real world (applied research)

Answer 6

ABA

Question 7

Implementation of validated EAB and ABA procedures to assess and improve socially important human behaviors

Answer 7

ABA Practice

Question 8

Seven dimensions of ABA

Answer 8

Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, Generality

Question 9

Article that defined ABA and the 7 dimensions

Answer 9

“Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis” by Baer, Wolf, and Risley, 1968.

Question 10

The implementation of basic principles to changebehaviors of significance to clients

Answer 10

Applied( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)

Question 11

Behavior is directly observed and measured, usually in the real-life environment

Answer 11

Behavioral( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)

Question 12

Seeks to identify functional relations between manipulated environmental events and behavior through systematic and controlled manipulations

Answer 12

Analytic ( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)

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Procedures are completely identified, and precisely described and defined

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Technological( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)

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Procedures are linked to, and described in terms of, the basic principles of behavior

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Conceptually Systematic (1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)

Question 15

An accountable discipline with data-based procedure changes

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Effective ( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)

Question 16

Behavior changes achieved should maintain, transfer to other settings and situations, and spread to other behaviors

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Generality ( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)

Question 17

Conceptual Analysis

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Deals with philosophical and theoretical issues and history of our discipline related to these issues

Question 18

The set of assessment and behavior change procedures validated by ABA researchers

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Behavioral Technology

Question 19

Past and current behavior is explained as a function of environmental contingencies

Answer 19

Environmental explanations

Question 20

Mentalistic Explanations

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Explain behavior by referring to hypothetical constructs from a dimension that is inferred to be inside the organism

Question 21

Circular reasoningThe description becomes an explanation

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Explanatory Fictions

Question 22

2 Major Types of Explanatory Fictions

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Mentalistic explanations, Teleological explanations

Question 23

Summary labels of behavior (such as traits, states, attitudes,diagnostic categories) and other hypothetical constructs are used to explain behavior

Answer 23

Mentalisms

Question 24

Future events are mistakenly used to explain behavior

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Teleological Explanations