White Book

Question 1

6 Attitudes of science

Answer 1

determinism, empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, philosophic doubt

Question 2

Explanatory Fiction

Answer 2

a.k.a circular reasoning–Jack hand flaps because he has autism. How do we know he has Autism? Because he hand flaps.

Question 3

6 charateristics of ABA

Answer 3

behavioral, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, generality

Question 4

ABA characteristic–Apllied

Answer 4

must select behaviors that are socially significant for the participants day-to-day life experience

Question 5

ABA characteristic–Behavioral(3 parts)

Answer 5

1. behavior of study must be about the behavior
2. behavior must be measurable
3. when changes in behavior are observed you must ask whose behavior has changed(has the Bx of the observer changed or the behaver)

Question 6

ABA characteristic–Analytic

Answer 6

functional relation between the minpulated events and a reliable change in some meeasurable dimension of the targeted Bx

Question 7

ABA characterisic–Technological

Answer 7

all operative procedures are identified and described with sufficient detail and clarity so others could possibly replicate it.

Question 8

ABA characteristic–Conceptually Systematic

Answer 8

procedures and their justification must be related to basic principles

Question 9

ABA characteristic–Effective

Answer 9

must improve the behavior under investifation to a socially significant level

Question 10

Response class

Answer 10

a group of responses with the same function(produces the same effect on the environment)

Question 11

stimulus class

Answer 11

group of stimuli that share common physical features, places in time, or by their effects on the environment

Question 12

Respondent Bx

Answer 12

reflexes; Bx that is elicited by antecedent stimuli; nothing else is required for the response to occur i.e. bright light=pupil contraction

Question 13

Respondent conditioning

Answer 13

pairing of an US with a NS transforming the NS to a CS

Question 14

Conditioned reflex

Answer 14

when an CS has the equivalent function of the UCS

Question 15

respondent extinction

Answer 15

presenting a CS repeatedly w/o the UCS util the CS no longer elicits the conditioned reflex (CS no longer Fx equivalent

Question 16

operant behavior

Answer 16

any Bx whose future frequence is determined primarily by its history of consequences

Question 17

ontogeny

Answer 17

over the course of an organisms life

Question 18

phylogeny

Answer 18

natural selection in the evolutionary history of a species

Question 19

operant conditioning

Answer 19

the process and selective effects of consequences on behavior (consequences can only effect future Bx)

Question 20

consequences select response classes not…

Answer 20

individual responses

Question 21

unconditioned reinforcer

Answer 21

any stimulus that increases the likliehood of future Bx w/o prior pairing (food, water, sexual stimulation, or anything that supports biological maintenance of the organism)

Question 22

A-B design

Answer 22

two-phase experimental design consisting of baseline and intervention

Question 23

A-B-A design

Answer 23

thre phase experimenat design baseline(steady level)-intervention(steady level)-return to baseline.

Question 24

abative effect(of a MO)

Answer 24

decrease in the current frequency of behavior

Question 25

ABC recording is what type of measurement

Answer 25

anecdotal observation

Question 26

motivatinig operation that decreases the effectiveness of a stimulus

Answer 26

abolishing operation

Question 27

behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic R+ (doing things b/c you are bored until R+ is available)

Answer 27

adjunctive Bx