Scientific Understanding
What are the 3 levels of Scientific Understanding?
Description, Prediction, and Control
What are the 6 attitudes of Science?
(Hint: DEER PP)
Determinism, Experimentation, Empiricism, Replication, Philosophic Doubt, Parsimony
What only looks at publicly observable events?
Methodological Behaviorism
What are the 4 domains of the science of behavior analysis and its application to human problems?
Behaviorism, Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB), Applied Behavior Analysis, and Practice Guided by Behavior Analysis
What are the 7 Dimensions of ABA?
(Hint: BATCAGE)
Behavioral, Applied, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Analytical, Generality, and Effective
Highest level of scientific understanding
Control
Analyzes outcomes if the results were useful or not
Pragmatism
Attempts to understand all behaviors
Radical Behaviorism
True or False
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) examines behavioristic laws and principles in an experimental setting
True.
An example of an experimental setting is a lab (i.e. controlled)
A characteristic that requires the researcher or practitioner to select behaviors to change that are socially significant for participants
Applied
Describes what happened
Description
Behaviors that are selected based on environmental factors
Selectionism
Acknowledges private, mental events but does not consider them in analysis of behavior
Methodological Behaviorism
Creates behavior change tactics
Applied Behavior Analysis
An intervention should be replicable by anyone who reads the intervention
Technological
Suggests possible causal relations, but no functional relation
Prediction
True or False:
Determinism includes coincidences and randomness
False.
Determinism = universe is lawful and orderly
Emotions, thoughts, and feelings
Private event
Directly implements interventions and treatments in the real world
Practice Guided by Behavior Analysis
The experimental control is sufficient and proves a reliable functional relation
Analytical
A functional relation
When you have control over the behavior occurring and not occurring
The simplest and most logical explanation
Parsimony
Behaviors that are observable and measurable
Public Event
Explanation for behavior as a result of interactions between individuals and the environment
Behaviorism
A significant and socially important level of change
Effective