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| Applied Behavior Analysis |
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| A discipline of psychology (and education) devoted to the understanding and improvement of human behavior. |
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| The belief that the universe is a lawful and orderly place and that all phenomena occur as the result of other events. |
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| Statements that describe the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the operation of specific variables. |
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| The practice of objective observation. |
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| "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. |
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| 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. |
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| The attitude that requires one to continually question the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact. |
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| The social significance of the behavior under investigation. A study must examine behavior(s) that have immediate importance to the subject(s) of study. |
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| A study is behavioral if it is in true need of improvement, and it must be able to be observed and measured. |
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| 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. |
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| When procedures used in the study are completely identified and precisely described. |
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| When the procedures of behavior change are described in terms of relevant principle(s) from which they are derived. |
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| An effective application of behavioral techniques must improve the behavior under investigation to a practical degree. |
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| Lasting over time; the behavior appears in environments other than the one in which the behavioral techniques were applied. |
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| The philosophical and theoretical foundations of the science of behavior. |
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| Experimental Analysis of Behavior |
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| The basic research of the science of behavior. |
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| Applied Behavior Analysis |
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| The practical application and analysis of the science of behavior. |
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| Behaviors elicted not by preceding stimuli, but instead by the the influence of stimuli that follow the behavior. |
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| Behaviors that are elicited, or brought out, by stimuli that precede the behavior. |
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| 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. |
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| Structuralism and Methodological Behaviorism |
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| Behaviorism which rejects any so called behaviors (such as mental thoughts/emotions) other than those which can be described through operational and objective assessment. |
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