Goals of Behavior Analysis
A specific change in one event can be reliably produced by scientific manipulation of another event. This change is not due to other factors or variables.
What is control?
Events that occur in the universe do not happen “out of the blue.” Instead, they occur in an orderly and predictable manner.
What is determinism?
The bringing about of a phenomenon more than once under similar conditions
What is replication?
he demonstration of a reliable functional relationship between environmental changes (assessment/intervention) and target behavior changes. Most basically, being analytical means making data-driven decisions.
What is Analytic?
Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environments other than the environment which it was taught and/or spreads to other behaviors not targeted by the intervention.
What is generality?
A collection of facts about the observed event(s) that can be quantified, classified and examined for possible similarities to other known facts.
What is description?
Requires the manipulation of the independent variable to see the effects on the dependent variable in order to demonstrate a functional relation.
What is experimentation?
How the environment changes one individual over their lifetime.
What is Ontogeny?
A branch of behaviorism that includes thoughts and feelings in addition to observable behavioral events.
What is Radical Behaviorism?
Behavior that changes in a practical manner that result in clinical or social significance.
What is effective?
It helps us establish relations between events.
What is prediction?
All life forms naturally and continually evolve through their learning history and evolutionary development.
What is selectionism?
Scientists and practitioners need to continually adopt a critical eye when evaluating treatment claims, research results, and so forth.
What is Philosophical Doubt?
Observable and measurable behavior should be the focus of our work.
What is behavioral?
All procedures of an intervention, data and results of an experiment or study are clearly outlined in detail so they can be understood, replicated and implemented by anyone with the prerequisite skills.
What is technical?
Repeated observations reveal that observing other events can consistently result in accurately anticipating an outcome.
What is prediction?
Objective observation of events in our environment, using information from (and only from) one or more of our five senses.
What is empiricism?
List the 8 philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis.
What is Determinism, Empiricism, Experimentation, Replication, Parsimony, Philosophical Doubt, Pragmatism, Selectionism?
Descriptions of procedures must be teachable and easy to understand by others so they can be implemented with fidelity.
What is technical?
We must target to improve the social, academic, language, daily living skills and day to day experiences of the client and other stakeholders. In other words, we should often ask, “Is this meaningful?”
What is applied?
It is an important first step in science.
What is description?
The simplest explanation should be the first explanation.
What is parsimony?
The philosophical attitude that something has value, or is true, to the extent that it leads to successful outcomes when practically applied.
What is pragmatism?
Name the 7 dimensions of ABA.
What is Generality, Effective, Technological, Applied, Conceptually Systematic, Analytic, Behavioral
All procedures used in practice should be related to the basic behavioral principles of behavior analysis from which they were derived.
What is Conceptually Systematic?