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| the understanding and improvement of human behavior |
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| 3 levels of scientific understanding |
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1. description
2. prediction
3. control |
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| when a systematic co-variation between 2 evens is found |
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| a relationship in which the value of one party is dependent on the value of a second party |
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| scientists presume that the part of the universe that they intend to probe is a lawful and orderly place |
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| objective observation of the phenomena of interest |
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| requires that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomenon under investigation be ruled out before more complex explanations are considered |
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| scientist must continually question the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact and knowledge must always be viewed as tentative |
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| philosophy of the science of behavior |
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| Experimental branch of behavior analysis formally began in (year?) with the publication of (author/book) |
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| 1938, B.F. Skinner's 'The Behavior of Organisms' |
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| S-R model/Respondent behavior: |
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| all about the antecedent (what happened before the behavior) = reflexive behavior, like Pavlov |
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| S-R-S/the three-term contingency/Operant behavior |
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| Skinner: behavior is changed less by the stimuli that precede it and more by the consequences that immediately follow it |
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| presumed but unobserved entities that could not be manipulated in an experiment |
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| Skinner's most powerful and fundamental contribution was: |
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| discovery of the effects of consequences on behavior |
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| an approach to the study of behavior which assumes that a mental or "inner" dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension |
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| methodological behaviorism: |
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| no "inner variables", just science |
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| Skinner's "private events" |
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| thoughts and feelings are behavior,behavior that takes place within the skin, influenced by the same kinds of variables as publicly accessible behavior |
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| seeks to understand ALL human behavior, inside and out |
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| 1 of the first studies to report the human application of principles of operant behavior was done by who and involved what? |
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| done by Fuller, 1949, 18 year old "vegetative idiot". Within 4 sessions the boy was moving his arm to receive a reward of warm sugar milk solution injected into his mouth |
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| In the 1960's what were early problems researchers faced in ABA? |
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| Lab techniques for measuring behavior and for controlling and manipulating variables were sometimes unavailable/not able to be used. Also no funding, no where to publish studies |
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2 significant evens in 1968 mark the formal beginning of contemporary ABA:
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| 1. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis began publication 2.Publication of paper by Baer, Wolf & Risley where they define the criteria for judging the adequacy of research and practice in ABA |
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| a behavior change has 'generality' if it: |
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| lasts over time, appears in environments other than the 1 in which the intervention was implemented |
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| the foundation and most important component of ABA practices |
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| direct and frequent measurement |
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