A-1:Goals of behavior analysis
Suggests possible causal relations, but no functional relations because no variables are manipulated.
Prediction
Behaviors are selected based on environmental factors
Selectionism
Behaviors that are observable and measurable
Public events
Applying behavior principles to research in offices, clinics, schools, etc.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
The target behavior should change not only in the learning environment, but outside the learning environment as well.
Generality
You think that if you present to your client a demand to transition they will begin to engage in property destruction, is an example of?
Prediction
Idea that the universe is orderly and lawful. There are no accidental occurrences. Everything happens for a reason.
Determinism
Emotions, thoughts, and feelings that are considered behaviors
Private events
The study of behavior principals to be later used outside of the experimental setting.
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
An intervention should be replicable by anyone who reads the intervention
Technological
Highest level of understanding. Functional relationship between the IV and DV established.
Control
Objective observation of events that are data based, not based upon feelings or thoughts.
Empiricism
Unobservable process that is said to be present
Hypothetical Constructs
Guiding philosophy of behavior science. There is an explanation for behavior because of interactions between individuals and the environment.
Behaviorism
There must be a significant and socially important level of change to the behavior.
Effective
Facts about the event or behavior that are observable and measurable.
Description
The simplest and most logical explanations should always be considered first.
Parsimony
A fictional variable used to explain the behavior
Explanatory fiction
You are studying the effects of punishment on your RBTs. The is an example of?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
A functional relationship is demonstrated between what is changed in the environment, and the behavior we want to change.
Analytic
ABC data is an example of?
Description
Analyze outcomes and procedures based on results.
Pragmatism
Faulty logic. The effect is the cause, and the cause is the effect.
Circular reasoning
The interventions that result from behaviorism, EAB, ABA. The actual interventions used in the real world.
Practice Guided by Behavior Analysis
Conceptually Systematic