Basic Characteristics and a Definition of Science
History of the Development of Behavior Analysis
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Characteristics of ABA
Definition of ABA
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Science allows for...
What is describe, predict, and control?
100
Watson espoused an early form of behaviorism known as
What is stimulus-response (S-R) psychology
100
Effective: definition and example
What is improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the client? Example: client can now wash hands independently doing all needed steps whereas before s/he could not.
100
Applied: definition and example
What is investigating socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject(s)? Example: teaching client to mand for the essentials
100
ABA stands for...
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
200
Correlation vs. causation
What is systematic covariation between two events (two events relating to one another) and one event causing another? An example of correlation is a positive correlation between eating healthy and good grades, perhaps a third event such as high SES is actually the cause.
200
This person founded the experimental analysis of behavior (EAB)
Who is Skinner?
200
Empiricism
What is the objective observation of the phenomena of interest? Objective, not subjective, not depending on the individual's prejudices or private opinions.
200
Behavioral: definition and example
What is precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement, not using indirect measures such as responses to a questionnaire about the rates of said behavior?
200
True or false: We do ABA
What is false?
300
Independent vs. dependent variable
What is treatment vs. measured variable?
300
Radical behaviorism vs. methodological behaviorism
What is attempting to explain all behavior, including private events such as thinking and feeling vs. considering private events (events that cannot be publicly observed) to be outside the realm of science?
300
Generality: definition and example
What is producing behavior changes that last over time, appear in other environments, or spread to other behaviors? Example: Wash hands effectively at home, and does so also in the community.
300
Analytic: definition and example
What is experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior - that is, if a functional relation is demonstrated?
300
Define ABA
What is the science and applied research that uses experimentation to identify the variables responsible for socially significant behavior change?
400
Parsimony
What is simple, logical explanations that must be ruled out, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered? Ask for examples.
400
Mentalism
What is an approach to understanding behavior that relies on hypothetical constructs and explanatory fictions? Hypothetical construct example includes Freud's id, ego, and superego.
400
Determinism
What is the assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur as a result of other events? (If we didn't believe in determinism we couldn't do our practice!)
400
Technological: definition and example
What is the written description of all procedures used in the study so that it is sufficiently complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it?
400
The four interrelated domains that behavior analysts work in.
What is behaviorism, experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice?
500
Philosophical doubt
What is continually questioning the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge? Example: current studies validating or refuting past studies.
500
EAB characteristics
What is rate as the common form of datum, repeated measurement, within-subject experimental comparisons, and visual analysis of graphed data?
500
Experimentation and replication
What is the controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest (dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time (independent variable) differs from one condition to another? And what is repeating experiments (and independent variable conditions within experiments) to determine the reliability and usefulness of findings? If you did the experiment more than once, under similar conditions, would you have similar results? If so, you have reliability.
500
Conceptually systematic: definition
What is behavior change interventions that are derived from basic principles of behavior?
500
Define the four domains that behavior analysts work in.
What is behaviorism (theoretical and philosophical issues), experimental analysis of behavior (basic research), applied behavior analysis (applied research), and professional practice (providing behavior analytic services to consumers, like us!)
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