White Book Flashcards
6 Attitudes of science
determinism, empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, philosophic doubt
Explanatory Fiction
a.k.a circular reasoning–Jack hand flaps because he has autism. How do we know he has Autism? Because he hand flaps.
6 charateristics of ABA
behavioral, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, generality
ABA characteristic–Apllied
must select behaviors that are socially significant for the participants day-to-day life experience
ABA characteristic–Behavioral(3 parts)
- behavior of study must be about the behavior
- behavior must be measurable
- when changes in behavior are observed you must ask whose behavior has changed(has the Bx of the observer changed or the behaver)
ABA characteristic–Analytic
functional relation between the minpulated events and a reliable change in some meeasurable dimension of the targeted Bx
ABA characterisic–Technological
all operative procedures are identified and described with sufficient detail and clarity so others could possibly replicate it.
ABA characteristic–Conceptually Systematic
procedures and their justification must be related to basic principles
ABA characteristic–Effective
must improve the behavior under investifation to a socially significant level
Response class
a group of responses with the same function(produces the same effect on the environment)
stimulus class
group of stimuli that share common physical features, places in time, or by their effects on the environment
Respondent Bx
reflexes; Bx that is elicited by antecedent stimuli; nothing else is required for the response to occur i.e. bright light=pupil contraction
Respondent conditioning
pairing of an US with a NS transforming the NS to a CS
Conditioned reflex
when an CS has the equivalent function of the UCS
respondent extinction
presenting a CS repeatedly w/o the UCS util the CS no longer elicits the conditioned reflex (CS no longer Fx equivalent
operant behavior
any Bx whose future frequence is determined primarily by its history of consequences
ontogeny
over the course of an organisms life
phylogeny
natural selection in the evolutionary history of a species
operant conditioning
the process and selective effects of consequences on behavior (consequences can only effect future Bx)
consequences select response classes not…
individual responses
unconditioned reinforcer
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)
A-B design
two-phase experimental design consisting of baseline and intervention
A-B-A design
thre phase experimenat design baseline(steady level)-intervention(steady level)-return to baseline.
abative effect(of a MO)
decrease in the current frequency of behavior
ABC recording is what type of measurement
anecdotal observation
motivatinig operation that decreases the effectiveness of a stimulus
abolishing operation
behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic R+ (doing things b/c you are bored until R+ is available)
adjunctive Bx
