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| Everything that an organism does |
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| Movement of an organism or its parts |
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| The interaction of the muscles and glands of a live organism and the environment |
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| If a dead person can “do” it, it is NOT behavior |
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| A specific instance of behavior |
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beginning,
middle, and end of a
response |
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| Physical nature of responses |
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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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| 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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Effect of a response on
environment |
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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
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The effects/results of a response |
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Configuration, form, or shape of
response |
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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 quality of a phenomenon |
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A dimensional quantity is a
quantifiable aspect of a
property. How measured!
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A single response occurs in time, in relation to preceding stimulus or event |
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time between stimulus and response |
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amount of time between
beginning and end of
response cycle |
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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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change in
behavior over time,
increases (acceleration) or
decreases (deceleration) |
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Total constellation of stimuli
Which can affect behavior |
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Both outside the skin of the
organism and within the skin |
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A change in the environment
which can affect behavior |
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energy change that affects an organism through its receptors |
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Group of stimuli that share a
certain characteristic |
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Stimulus which precedes/occurs before a response
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A stimulus which
follows/occurs after a response |
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Organic and Environmental
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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When changes in an
antecedent or consequent
stimulus class consistently alter
a dimension of a response
class |
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Relatively
permanent change in behavior
as a result of experience
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