Levels of Scientific Understanding
Suggests the relative probability that one event will occur based on the presence of another event.
Prediction
A healthy level of skepticism. Continually questioning the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact.
Philosophical Doubt
The philosophy of the science of behavior.
Behaviorism
Produces behavior change that lasts over time, appear in other environments, or spread to other behaviors.
Generality
Parsimony
Bonus: 100
Example of DRA procedure for attention-seeking behaviors.
High level of understanding behavior.
Control
All simple, logical explanations for phenomena must be ruled out before more complex or abstract explanations are considered.
Parsimony
Attempts to explain all behavior, including private behavior like thoughts and feelings. Emphasizes the importance of reinforcement and the relationships between observable stimuli and responses.
Radical Behaviorism
Procedures are described clearly and concisely so that others may implement them accurately.
Technological
Discrimination Training
Bonus: 100
Give an example of prompt fading for LR.
Initial level of understanding in behavior analysis, but crucial for all other levels to be effective.
Description
Drawing a general rule from specific observations; inductive reasoning. Places emphasis on the value of knowledge/truth.
Pragmatism
A scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those discoveries.
Applied Behavior Analysis
Positively changes socially significant behaviors to enhance and improve life.
Applied
Extinction Burst
Bonus: 100
Give an example of perseveration vs scripting.
Manipulation of the independent variable can be used to product a reliable change in the dependent variable.
Control
There are three ways an environment can affect a living being: phylogenic, ontogenic, and cultural.
Selectionism
Analysis of operant behavior "with its unique relation to the environment presents a separate important field of investigation"
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Observable and measurable behaviors are targeted.
Behavioral
An example of how to contrive each operant.
Bonus: 100
Name the steps of BST.
Collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts.
Description
Repeating experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness of findings and discover mistakes; needed for a finding to be accepted as a pattern.
Replication
The delivery of interventions to consumers that are guided by the principles of behaviorism and the research of both the experimental analysis of behavior and ABA.
Professional Practice guided by the science of Behavior Analysis
Procedures for changing behaviors and any interpretations of how those procedures were effective should be described in terms of the relevant principles from which they derived.
Conceptually Systematic
All Types of Differential reinforcement
Bonus: 100
Give an example of DRI for 5 different behaviors.