Characteristics Of Aba

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Exists when a well-controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event and that change was unlikely to be the result of another extraneous variables

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Functional relation

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An approsch to the study of bahavior which assumes that a mental or "inner" dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension.

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Mentalism

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Requires that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomenon under investigation be ruled out before more complex explanation are considered.

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Parsimony

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The repeating of experiments and conditions within experiments which allows scientists to determine the reliability and usefulness of their findings

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Replication

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Uses scientific manipulations of only observed public events to search for functional relationships between events

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Methodological behaviorism

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The practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest

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Empiricism

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A fictitious variable that often is simply another name for the observed behavior that contributes nothing to the understanding of the variables responsible for developing or maintaining behavior

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Explanatory fiction

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A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena, as evidenced by description, prediction and control that relies on determinism empiricism, replication, parsimony and philosophic doubt.

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Science

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A carefully conducted comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another

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Experiment

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Requires the scientists to continually question the truthfulness of what is regarded as facts

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Philosophic doubt

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considers private stimuli such as thinkung and sensing to be no different from public events.

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Radical behaviorism

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Presumed but unobserved entity that cannot be manipulated in an experiment

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Hypothetical Construct

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Basic research into principles of behavior

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EAB

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A scientific approach to improving socially significant behavior in which procedures from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior

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ABA

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Philosophy of the science of behavior

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Behaviorism