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42 Cards in this Set
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Behavior
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Everything that an organism does
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Behavior
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Movement of an organism or its parts
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Behavior
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The interaction of the muscles and glands of a live organism and the environment
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Dead Person’s Test
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If a dead person can “do” it, it is NOT behavior
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Response
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A specific instance of behavior
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Response Cycle
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beginning, middle, and end of a response
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Topography
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Physical nature of responses
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Topography
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exact form, or shape of the
response, the appearance of the response, the force involved, and actual movements involved |
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Magnitude
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A property closely associated with topography
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Topographical Response Class (TRC)
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A group of two or more
responses which share a common form |
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Function
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Effect of a response on environment
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Magnitude
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A property closely associated with topography
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Functional Response Class (FRC)
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Two or more (topographically different) responses that have same effect on environment, producing specific class of reinforcers
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Functional Response Class (FRC)
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• Attention-getting Bx
• Food-getting Bx • Task-Escape Bx |
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Function
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The effects/results of a response
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Topography
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Configuration, form, or shape of response
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Public Behavior
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Behavior observed by others
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Private Events (behavior)
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Behavior that cannot be observed by
others; only accessible to the organism |
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Fundamental Property
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Fundamental quality of a phenomenon
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Dimensional quantity
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A dimensional quantity is a quantifiable aspect of a property. How measured!
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Temporal locus
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A single response occurs in time, in relation to preceding stimulus or event
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Latency
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time between stimulus and response
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Temporal extent
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a response occupies time
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Duration
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amount of time between beginning and end of response cycle
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Repeatability
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response can reoccur
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Countability/frequency
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# responses or # cycles of the response class
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IRT (Inter-Response Time)
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time elapsed b/t end of a response cycle and beginning of the next response cycle
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Rate
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# responses / time
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Celeration
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change in behavior over time,
increases (acceleration) or decreases (deceleration) |
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Environment
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Total constellation of stimuli. Which can affect behavior
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Environment
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Both outside the skin of the organism and within the skin
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Stimulus
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A change in the environment which can affect behavior
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Stimulus
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energy change that affects an organism through its receptors
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Stimulus Class
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Group of stimuli that share a certain characteristic
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Antecedent
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Stimulus which precedes/occurs before a response
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Consequence
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A stimulus which follows/occurs after a response
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Responses are never ....
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antecedents
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Behavior
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Organic and Environmental Variables
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Organic variables
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• genetics
• physical attributes • bio-chemical factors • neurological factors |
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Environmental Determinants of Behavior
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Current environmental events and previous
experience |
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Functional Relation
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When changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class
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Learning
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Relatively permanent change in behavior
as a result of experience |