Foundations of ABA
Description, prediction, control
What are the 3 levels of scientific understanding?
A type of scientific understanding that always question the truth and helps maintain a healthy level of skepticism.
What is philosophical doubt?
Anything that living organisms say or do, Has an effect on the environment, and are observable
What is a behavior?
A single instance of behavior
What is a response?
Direct assessments and indirect assessment
What are the types of assessments?
is when repeat observations show us that there is a consistent relationship between two events. By establishing this relationship you are able to predict the probability of 1 event occurring when the other event occurs.
What is prediction?
Behaviorism, Experimental of Behavior, Applied Behavioral Analysis, and Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
What are the 4 branches of behavior analysis?
Punishment, extinction, and reinforcement
What are the 3 principles of behavior?
Continuous reinforcement, Intermittent Reinforcement, and Extinction
What are the schedules of reinforcement?
Assessments using Questionnaires
What are indirect assessments?
A dimension of ABA in which the target behavior must be in need of improvement and the behavior must be measurable.
What is behavioral?
A branch of ABA that use behavior analysts to assess, monitor, analyze, revise, and communicate the effects of their work
All behaviors that a person can do, a collection of skills that you have learned that are related to a specific task or setting
What is a repertoire?
When a behavior is evoked, shaped, maintained, or weakened without anyone else interfering
What is automatic reinforcement?
Assessments completed by the BCBA or assessor
What are direct assessments?
A functional relationship is established with science confirms what has been predicted: an experimental demonstration that manipulating 1 event (the independent variable) results in a change in another event (the dependent variable), and this change can only be attributable to the independent variable
What is control?
is used to enhance the understanding any given phenomenon by enabling scientists to describe it accurately.
What is description?
Physical events that effect behaviors
What is a stimulus?
3 out of 7 compound reinforcement procedures
An indirect assessment to determine functions of behaviors
What is the FAST assessment?
A type of scientific understanding where scientists presume that the universe is lawful and orderly place in which all events occur as the results of other events
What is determinism?
A philosophical assumption that requires that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomenon under investigation to be ruled out.
What is parsimony?
involves the temporal pairing of stimuli which creates conditioned relationships between stimuli and behavior. Unconditioned stimuli elicit unconditioned responses.
What is respondent conditioning?
Also known as primary reinforcers, naturally reinforcing without prior learning, and requires a state of deprivation to be a reinforcer
What is an unconditioned reinforcer?
What is the acronym for the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program?