Unit 1

Question 1

A natural science that studies functional relations between behavior and environmental events

Answer 1

Behavior Analysis

Question 2

Everything that an organism does.

The interaction of the muscles, glands, or other parts of a live organism with the environment

Answer 2

Behavior

Question 3

Behavior that can be observed by others, even though special instrumentation may be required at times.

Answer 3

Public behavior

Question 4

Behavior that cannot be observed by others; it is only accessible to the organism who is engaging in the private event.

Answer 4

Private behavior

Question 5

A specific instance of behavior.

Answer 5

Response

Question 6

The beginning, middle and end of a response.

Answer 6

Response cycle

Question 7

A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon.

Answer 7

Property

Question 8

Temporal Locus
Temporal Extent
Repeatability

Answer 8

Fundamental properties

Question 9

A single response occurs in time.

Answer 9

Temporal Locus

Question 10

A response occupies time

Answer 10

Temporal Extent

Question 11

A response can reoccur

Answer 11

Repeatability

Question 12

A quantifiable aspect of a property

Answer 12

Dimensional quantities

Question 13

The amount of time between a stimulus and a response.

Answer 13

Latency

Question 14

The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle.

Answer 14

Duration

Question 15

The number of responses or number of cycles of the response class.

Answer 15

Countability

Question 16

The time between two successive responses.

Answer 16

IRT

Question 17

The ratio of the number of responses over some period of time.

Answer 17

Rate

Question 18

Change in one of the other dimensional quantities of behavior over time.

Answer 18

Celeration

Question 19

Configuration, form, or shape of a response.

Answer 19

Topography

Question 20

The effects or results of a response on the environment.

Answer 20

Function

Question 21

A grouping of individual actions or reponses that share those commonalities included in the class definition.

Answer 21

Response class

Question 22

A collection of two or more responses which share a common form.

Answer 22

Topographical Response Class

Question 23

A collection of two or more topographically different responses that all have the same effect on the environment, usually producing a specific class of reinforcers.

Answer 23

Functional Response Class

Question 24

The total constellation of stimuli and conditions which can affect behavior.

Answer 24

Environment

Question 25

Consist of the stiuation (set of circumstances) in which behavior occurs at any given time.

Answer 25

Environmental context

Question 26

A change in the environment which can affect behavior.

Answer 26

Stimulus

Question 27

A stimulus which precedes, that is, occurs before a response.

Answer 27

Antecedent

Question 28

A stimulus which follows, that is, occurs after a response.

Answer 28

Consequence

Question 29

A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions.

Answer 29

Stimulus class

Question 30

Changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class.

Answer 30

Functional relation