UWF 6225 Guided Notes 1-3

Standard Celeration Chart

The _______________________________ is the only standardized form of data measurement in our science. In this course, you will be charting your own behavior – specifically your daily study of ABA terminology.

Applied Behavior Analysis

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) is the single governing body for professionals in the field of __________________________. The BACB was established in 1998 to provide certification to professionals in an effort to establish minimum criteria to be a reactionary in the field.

measurement

The standard celeration chart is the only standardized form of data _________________ in our science.

science

The word refers to a systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world.

description

prediction

control .

Scientific investigations can yield information regarding the three levels of understanding, which are _____________ , ________________, and ____________ .

Descriptive

___________________ studies produce a collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts.

correlation

When a systematic covariation occurs between two events, we are able to predict the probability that one event will occur in conjunction with the other event. This is called ________________________ .

control

functional relation

The highest level of scientific understanding is __________. In this regard, we specifically manipulate one event (the independent variable) in order to produce a reliable change in another event (the dependent variable), and the change in the dependent variable is not likely due to other extraneous factors (known as confounding variables). This relationship is referred to as a ___________________ .

dependent variable

The ____________________ is the event in which we observe change.

independent variable

The ___________________ is the event in which we manipulate.

dependent variable

The “behavior” we wish to change in behavior analysis is known as the __________________.

independent variable

The “intervention” we employ in behavior analysis is known as the _____________________.

independent variable

dependent variable

When we apply an intervention, we are manipulating the ________________________. The change we see in the target behavior is known as the ___________________.

functional relation

change

confounding variables

A ___________________ is demonstrated when we manipulate the independent variable and see a ___________ in the dependent variable and that change is not likely due to ______________________.

Determinism

Empiricism

Replication

__________________ is the assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur as a result of other events. ________________ is the objective observation of the phenomena of interest. _______________is the repeating of experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness of the findings

Parsimony

_________________ is ensuring we consider the simplest, most logical explanation of a phenomenon before more complex explanations are considered.

EAB

Behaviorism

Behavior analysis has three major branches: behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, and applied behavior analysis. ________ is the natural science approach for discovering orderly and reliable relations between behavior and various type of environmental variables of which is the function. ________________ is the philosophy of the science of behavior.

ABA

__________ was established by Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968) with seven guiding dimensions.

Radical Behaviorism

Methodological Behaviorism

_____________________ attempts to explain all behavior, including private events such as thinking and feeling. ______________________ is the philosophical position that considers behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed outside the realm of science. These two are drastically different.

consciousness

In the early 1900's the struggling field of psychology was based on introspection and states of ___________________, relying on case studies to document work.

environment

Behavior of Organisms

B.F. Skinner is credited with developing what Watson previously described into the actual science of behavior by conducting thousands of experiments that demonstrated orderly and reliable relationships between behavior and the _________________. This work was published in the ______________________(1938/1966) and should be added to every behavior analyst’s

library.

socially

socially significant behaviors

The [applied] dimension of ABA was summarized by Baer et al. (1968): "applied

research is constrained to examining behaviors which are ____________ important, rather than convenient for study" (p. 92). These are otherwise known as _______________________.

Behavioral

________________________ is the dimension in which we are certain that we not only changed

behavior, but we know whose behavior changed.

Analytic

__________________ defines how we arrive to our decision as to whether or not behavior

change occurred as we predicted.

Technological

__________________________ means that we fully disclose all of the procedures we followed in

order to measure behavior before and during intervention, as well as to how the

intervention was applied.

Conceptually systematic

______________________________ procedures mean that we rely on behavioral procedures derived from the research, not just random attempts to change behavior.

Effective

____________________ is when the applied behavior we selected was objectively measured

and it demonstrated a reliable change.

Generality

____________________ is the golden standard of our procedures. It simply means that the intervention not only changed the behavior in a particular setting, with a

particular person, but that in generalized to other environments and it maintained long after we exited the picture.

positive

When a stimulus is added and future frequencies of behavior maintain or increase, it is known as ____________________ reinforcement.

Positive punishment

________________________ is when is added and future occurrences of behavior decrease.

negative reinforcement

When a stimulus is removed and future frequencies of behavior increase, it is known as_________________________.

stimulus

When a _____________ is added and future frequencies of behavior maintain or increase, it is known as positive reinforcement.

Positive

__________________ punishment is when stimulus is added and future occurrences of behavior decreases.

Positive

__________________ reinforcement is when a stimulus is added and future frequencies of behavior maintain or increases.

removed

When a stimulus is ___________________ and future frequencies of behavior maintain or increase, it is known as negative reinforcement.

punishment

Positive __________________ is when stimulus is added and future occurrences of behavior increases.

reinforcement

When a stimulus is added and future frequencies of behavior maintain or increase, it is known as positive ________________________.

Negative

________________ reinforcement is when a stimulus is removed and future frequencies of

behavior maintain or increase.

positive reinforecement

When a stimulus is added and future frequencies of behavior maintain or increase, it is known as _________________________________.

reinforcement

added

Positive ________________________ is when a stimulus is ______________ and future frequency of behavior increases or stays the same.

added

reinforcement

When a stimulus is _________________________ future frequencies of behavior maintain or increases, out is known as positive _________________________.

Positive

decrease

____________________ punishment is when a stimulus is added and future occurrences of behavior ___________________.

Negative

____________________reinforcement is hen a stimulus is remove and future frequencies of behavior increase.