MISC
This is the first level of scientific understanding, involving the systematic observation and description of natural phenomena to identify patterns.
What is description?
This is the belief that all behavior is determined by the environment and genetic history, rather than free will.
What is determinism?
This dimension ensures that interventions result in socially significant changes in behavior.
What is applied?
This is the assumption that the simplest explanation is preferred, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
What is parsimony?
This principle increases the likelihood of a behavior by following it with a positive stimulus.
What is positive reinforcement?
This stimulus class is based on shared physical features, such as shape or color, which evoke similar responses.
What is a formal stimulus class?
This principle involves making decisions and drawing conclusions based on observable and measurable events.
What is empiricism?
This dimension refers to the need for interventions to be effective in producing meaningful changes in behavior.
What is effective?
This philosophical assumption in ABA suggests that the world is an orderly, predictable and lawful place, where everything happens due to cause and effect.
What is determinism?
This term refers to decreasing the frequency of a behavior by removing a desirable stimulus following the behavior.
What is negative punishment?
This level is achieved when experimental manipulation of variables allows scientists to demonstrate causation and make reliable predictions about behavior change.
What is control?
The philosophical viewpoint that emphasizes the use of scientific methods to derive knowledge.
What is science?
This dimension requires that the behavior change is significant and can be sustained over time.
What is generality?
This is the assumption that behavior can be understood and improved through systematic and empirical investigation.
What is pragmatism?
This is the process by which a behavior decreases because it is followed by the presentation of an aversive stimulus.
What is positive punishment?
This level of scientific understanding involves identifying relationships between events, allowing predictions about future occurrences.
What is prediction?
This approach focuses on observing the effects of manipulating variables in controlled settings.
What is experimentation?
This dimension of ABA focuses on using interventions that are thoroughly described so they can be replicated.
What is technological?
This philosophical approach emphasizes that knowledge should be derived from objective observation and measurement of behavior, rather than from subjective or theoretical ideas.
What is empiricism?
This principle increases behavior by removing an aversive stimulus following the behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
In this type of stimulus class, stimuli evoke the same behavior due to a learned relationship, even if they do not share formal or functional similarities.
What is an arbitrary stimulus class?
This principle suggests that all scientific knowledge is tentative and subject to change as new evidence emerges.
What is philosophic doubt?
This dimension refers to interventions that are rooted in behavioral principles and theories.
What is conceptually systematic?
This scientific belief states that anything that evolves does so due to the consequences of behavior. Behaviors that result in positive outcomes survive and produce more sophisticated repetoire.
What is selectionism?
This term refers to the process of systematically reinforcing successive approximations to a target behavior.
What is shaping?