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| The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change. |
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| The philosophy of the science of behavior |
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| The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy-nilly, accidental fashion. |
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| A study is analytic when the experimenter has demonstrated a functional relation between the manipulated events and a reliable change in some measurable dimension of the targeted behavior. |
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| An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest. |
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| In ABA, the commitment to affecting improvements in behaviors that enhance and improve people's lives, by changing socially significant behaviors. |
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| The procedures for changing behavior and any interpretations of how or why those procedures were effective should be described in terms of the relative principle(s) from which they were derived. |
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| The objective observation of the phenomena of interest. |
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| A controlled comparison of behavior under at least 2 conditions in which one factor is varied at times. |
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| Experimental Analysis of Behavior |
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| A natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by B.F. Skinner. |
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| A fictitious variable that often is simply another name for the observed behavior that contributes nothing to an understanding of the variables responsible for developing or maintaining the behavior. |
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Describes the occurrance of some (thing) as a function of one or more specified or controlled variables.
Example: Raising hand in class is function if raising hand is reinforced.
*Manipulating one event can reliably produce another desired behavior. |
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| In terms of behavior change, it lasts over time, appears in environments other than the one in which the intervention initially produced it was implemented, and/or spreads to other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention. |
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| Must produce behavior changes that reach clinical or social significance. |
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| An approach to explaining behavior that assumes a mental or inner dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension. |
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| Methodological Behaviorism |
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| A philosophical position that views behavioral events that CANNOT be publicly observed as outside the realm of science. |
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| Behavior is influenced by stimulus changes that have followed the behavior in the past. |
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| Ruling out simple, logical explanations before considering more complex or abstract explanations. |
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| The attitude that the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned. |
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| Events that take place "inside the skin"; thoughts and feelings |
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| A form of Behaviorism (Skinner) that seeks to understand ALL human behavior, including private events. |
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| Repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity. |
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| A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena that relies on determinism as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as its primary rule, experimentation as its basic strategy, replication as a requirement for believability, parsimony as a value and philosophical doubt as its guiding conscience. |
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| All operative procedures are identified and describes with sufficient detail and clarify "such that a reader has a fair chance of replicating the application with the same results". |
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| The basic unit of analysis in the analysis of operant behavior; encompasses the temporal and possibly dependent relations among an antecedent stimulus, behavior, and consequence. |
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