This dimension investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the participants
What is applied?
100
This must improve the behavior under investigation to a practical degree.
What is effective?
100
This assumption states that the world is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events.
What is determinism?
100
This is a collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified, classified, & examined for possible relations with other know facts
What is description?
100
This branch of behavior formally began in 1938 with the publication of B.F. Skinner's The Behavior of Organisms.
What is the experimental analysis of behavior?
200
This dimension is the precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement & documents that it was the participant’s behavior that changed
What is behaviorial?
200
You can say this dimension has this, if it lasts over time, appears in environments other than the one in which the intervention was implemented, and it spreads to other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention.
What is generality?
200
This is the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest, meaning "independent of the individual prejudices, tastes, and private opinions of the scientist.."
What is empiricism?
200
This is the relative probability that when one event occurs, another event will or will not occur and is based on repeated observation revealing relationships between various events.
What is prediction?
200
Skinner created this, which includes and seeks to understand all human behavior.
What is radical behaviorism?
300
This demonstrates a functional relation between the manipulated events and a reliable change in some measurable dimension of the targeted behavior. (The experimenter must be able to control the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior).
What is analytic?
300
These are the authors of "Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis"
What is Baer, Wolf, and Risley?
300
This requires that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomenon under investigation be ruled out before more complex or abstract explanations are considered.
What is parsimony?
300
This goal is the highest level of scientific understanding and where functional relations can be derived.
What is control?
300
These two events in 1968 mark the formal beginning of contemporary applied behavior analysis.
What is JABA and "Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis."
400
This dimension states that procedures are identified and described with sufficient detail and clarity "such that a reader has a fair chance of replicating the application with the same results"
What is technological?
400
This is inductive reasoning or drawing general rules based on specific observation. This is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. Often goes hand in hand with behaviorism.
What is pragmatism?
400
This refers to a systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world.
What is science?
400
This is the science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change.
What is applied behavior analysis?
500
This dimension means that the procedures should be described in terms derived from the relevant principles.
What is conceptually systematic?
500
"selection by consequences" anchors this new paradigm in the life sciences." A basic tenet of this position is that all forms of life, from single cells to complex cultures, evolve as a result of selection with respect to function.
What is selectionism?
500
This exists when a well controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (DV) can reliably be produced by the specific manipulations of another event (IV) and that the change in the DV is unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors.
What is a functional relation?
500
Skinner's laboratory research conducted from 1930-1937 brought into perspective two kids of behavior.