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| Measurable dimensions of Bx |
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Repeatability
Temporal Extent
Temporal Locus |
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Frequency
Rate
Celeration |
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| Extent to which IV responsible for changes in bx and not other variables |
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| Extent to which a study's findings have generality to other subjects, setting or bx |
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Determinism
Experimentation
Empiricism
Replication
Philosophical doubt
Parsimony
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| Measuring a behavior after it occurred by examining the effects the behavior produced on the environment. |
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| A way of taking data on a behavior of interest by observing the behavior itself and recording observable and measurable information about it. |
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| gather information about the behavior of interest using interactions with people, but not through direct observation. |
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Temporal extent
temporal locus |
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| describes what the behavior or behaviors of interest look like in a way that is observable, measurable, and repeatable. |
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| Stating intervention goals in observable and measurable terms |
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| Objective-observable and measurable; Clear-easily read by others; Complete-what is and isn't considered a behavior. |
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| Goals of behavior analysis as a science |
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Description
prediction
control |
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Generality
effective
technological
applied
conceptually systematic
analytic
behavioral |
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| Philosophical assumptions |
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Selectionism
determinism
empiricism
parsimony
pragmatism |
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| Objective observation of phenomena of interest |
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| 3 assumptions of radical behaviorism about private events |
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| Still behaviors, different from public because we can't access them, but have same functions |
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| Behaviorism vs methodological approach |
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| both acknowledge private events exist, methodological doesn't see them as scientific |
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| bx change intervention are derived from principles of bx |
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| single instance of a specific class of bx |
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| stimuli that share common features and evoke similar responses |
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| stimulus-stimulus pairing procedure in which a NS is presented with US until NS becomes a CS that elicits the CR |
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| presentation of stimulus at any one point in time that affects responding at a subsequent point in time |
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| Prompt on stimulus to evoke correct responding with Sd |
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| prompt on response to evoke correct responding with Sd |
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| A portion of an organism's interaction with its environment that involves movement of some part of the organism |
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| any operant bx that results in minimal displacement of participant in time and space |
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| any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given opportunity to emit the response |
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| Examples of reinforcement |
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| Schedules of reinforcement |
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| rules stating which responses will be reinforced |
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| bx that is shaped by its consequences |
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| response followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus change that results in similar responses occurring in the future |
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| response followed immediately by the removal, termination, postponement or avoidance of stimulus that results in similar responses occurring in the future |
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function based
topography |
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Momentary time sampling
whole interval
partial interval |
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