Bacb 5000 Unit 1

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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