Aba Basics

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Behavior

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The portion of an organism's interaction with its environment.

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Behaviorism

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Philosophy of the science of behavior.

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Determinism

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The universe is a lawful and orderly place, phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in accidental fashion.

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Experiment Comparision

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A comparision of some measure of the DV under 2 or more different conditions in which one factor at a time (IV) differs from one condition to another.

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Empiricism

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The objective observation of the phenomena of interest.

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Methodological behaviorism

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A philosophic position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed outside the realm of science.

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Mentalism

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Assumes that a mental or inner dimension exists that differs from behavior.

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Operant behavior

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Any behavior whose future frequency is determined by its history of consequences.

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Operant conditioning

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The process by which operant learning occurs

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Radical behaviorism

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A form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior including private and public events.

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Respondent behavior

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The response component of a reflex.

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Functional relation manipulating

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Establishing a consistent effect on the DV by manipulating the IV, unlikely to be a result of extraneous variables.

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Science

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A systematic approach to understanding of natural phenomena

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3 levels of scientific understanding

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Description, prediction, control

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Applied Behavioral Analysis

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The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.

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Dependent Variable

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The variable measured to determine if it changes as a result if manipulating the IV

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Discriminated Operant

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An operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than under others

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Discriminated stimulus

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Stimulus in the presence of which responses of some type have been reinforced and in the absence of which the same type of responses have not been reinforced.

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Ontogeny

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The history of the development of an individual organism during its lifetime.

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Parsimony

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Practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations before considering more complex explanations

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Phyolgeny

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The history of the natural evolution of a species

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Stimulus

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An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells.

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Stimulus control

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When the rate, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.

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Applied

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Commitment to affecting improvements in behaviors that enhance and improve people's lives

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Behavioral

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Behavior must be THE behavior that needs improvement, behavior must be measurable, "whose" behavior has changed

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Analytic

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Demonstrates a functional relation between manipulated events and a reliable change in some measurable dimension of the behavior.

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Technological

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Procedures are described in detail so that anyone can replicate it with same results

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Conceptually systematic

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Derived from the principles of behavior

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Effective

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Must produce behavior changes that are socially significant

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Generality

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Lasts over time, appears in different environments, behaviors change that were not the target behavior

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Skinner's first book

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Behavior of the organism

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Allyn & Michael

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Psychiatric Nurse as Behavioral Engineer

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Philosophic doubt

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Continuous questioning of what is known as fact