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Details Title: EXE 634 Chapter 1 Definitions Description: Terms and definitions relevant to applied behavior analysis. Total Flash Cards: 21 Created: 12/11/2005 16:52:16	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Applied Behavior Analysis Definition A discipline of psychology (and education) devoted to the understanding and improvement of human behavior. Term Determinism Definition The belief that the universe is a lawful and orderly place and that all phenomena occur as the result of other events. Term Functional Relationship Definition Statements that describe the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the operation of specific variables. Term Empiricism Definition The practice of objective observation. Term Parsimony Definition "Stinginess." The attitude that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomena under inveastigation be ruled out experimentally before more complex or abstract explanations are considered. Term Scientific Manipulation Definition A controlled experiment must be performed in which the factor(s) suspected of having causal status are stysematically controlled and manipulated while the effects on the event under study are carefully observed. Term Philosophic Doubt Definition The attitude that requires one to continually question the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact. Term Applied Definition The social significance of the behavior under investigation. A study must examine behavior(s) that have immediate importance to the subject(s) of study. Term Behavioral Definition A study is behavioral if it is in true need of improvement, and it must be able to be observed and measured. Term Analytic Definition A study is analytic when the experimenter has demonstrated a functinal ralationship between the manipulated events and the behavior of interest. There must be control of the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior. Term Technological Definition When procedures used in the study are completely identified and precisely described. Term Conceptually Systematic Definition When the procedures of behavior change are described in terms of relevant principle(s) from which they are derived. Term Effective Definition An effective application of behavioral techniques must improve the behavior under investigation to a practical degree. Term Generality Definition Lasting over time; the behavior appears in environments other than the one in which the behavioral techniques were applied. Term Behaviorism Definition The philosophical and theoretical foundations of the science of behavior. Term Experimental Analysis of Behavior Definition The basic research of the science of behavior. Term Applied Behavior Analysis Definition The practical application and analysis of the science of behavior. Term Operant Behaviors Definition Behaviors elicted not by preceding stimuli, but instead by the the influence of stimuli that follow the behavior. Term Respondents Definition Behaviors that are elicited, or brought out, by stimuli that precede the behavior. Term Radical Behaviorism Definition Behaviorism which considers thoughts, emotions, or nerves sensing some stimuli to be as valid as public events, or other stimuli such as the sounds from musical instruments, etc. Term Structuralism and Methodological Behaviorism Definition Behaviorism which rejects any so called behaviors (such as mental thoughts/emotions) other than those which can be described through operational and objective assessment.