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Applied Behavior Analysis
the science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior
Behaviorism
the philosophy of a science of behavior
Determinism
the assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to the other events and not in a willy-nilly accidental fashion
Empiricism
the objective observation of the phenomena of interest
experiment
a carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomena of interest under two or more conditions in which only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another
Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( EAB)
a natural science approach to the study of behavior
explanatory fiction
a fictitious or hypothetical variable that often take the form of another name for the observed phenomenon it claims to explain and contributes nothing to a functional account or understanding of the phenomenon
functional relation
a verbal statement summarizing the results of an experiment that describes the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the operation of one ore more specified and controlled variables in the experiment in which specific change in one event can be produced by manipulating another event and that the change in the DV was unlikely the result of other factors
hypothetical construct
a presumed but unobserved process or entity
mentalism
an approach to explaining behavior that assumes that a mental or inner dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension and that phenomena in this dimension neither directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior, if not all
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