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What are the 2 types of MOs?
What are the 4 branches of behavior analysis?
Conceptual Analysis of behavior, ABA, behavior service delivery, experimental analysis of behavior (CASE)
What is a stimulus delta?
A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has NOT produced reinforcement in the past
Define Mentalism
An approach to explaining behavior that assumes an inner dimension exists and causes behavior (inner motivation) mental states, private assumptions
pre-attending skills, stimulus salience
What is Sam's favorite tool to utilize during group?
List the 4 functions of behavior
escape/avoidance, automatic (self-stim), attention, access
Define Radical Behaviorism
An approach to explaining behavior that included public and private events.
What are some differences between stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination?
Stimulus generalization - loose stimulus control
Stimulus discrimination - tight stimulus control
Stimulus Salience is affected by what 2 elements?
Masking & Overshadowing
What are the 5 types of positive reinforcers?
Edible, Activity, Tangible, Social, Sensory
What is behavioral contrast?
A phenomenon in which change in one component of a multiple schedule increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component that is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction
Define Methodological behaviorism
An approach to explaining behavior that only looks at public, observable events in their analysis of behavior.
What are the 7 dimensions of ABA?
Behavioral, applied, technological, conceptually systematic, analytical, generality, effective
What is spontaneous recovery?
A typical pattern in which the behavior that diminished during the extinction process reoccurs
What type of behavior should extinction never be utilized on? *Think Ethically!
Self-injurious behaviors
What is an extinction burst?
An immediate increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented
What is the difference between respondent behavior and operant behavior?
respondent behavior is involuntary, elicited, unlearned, reflex
Operant behavior is voluntary, emit/evoke, learned behavior
What is Sam's favorite dog type?
PUG!
What are the differences between rule-governed behavior & contingency shaped behavior?
Rule-governed behavior - A verbal description of a behavioral contingency. Behavior is under the control of a rule, not a contingency or reinforcement.
Contingency- Shaped behavior - When a behavior is directly controlled by a contingency, not rules.
SD-->the response--> the outcome of the response (consequence)
What are the 3 levels of scientific understanding?
Description, prediction, control
How do you establish new conditioned reinforcers for an individual?
Through a pairing procedure
What are the differences between behavior versus response?
Behavior - larger set/class of responses that share physical dimensions or functions
Response - a single instance of behavior
What are the 6 attitudes of science/philosophical assumptions of behavior?
Determinism, empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, philosophical doubt
What are 2 types of avoidance?
Free-operant avoidance & discriminated avoidance