Unit 1

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Behavior analysis

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

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Two different areas of focus in behavior analysis

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Science and technology

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Behavior

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everything an organism does

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6 critical attributes of behavior

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Behavior is a biological phenomenon, involves movement, can only be done by a living organism, observable, measurable, involves interaction with the environment.

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Two tests to determine whether a phenomenon is behavior

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“What am I doing?” and “Dead-persons test”

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The what am I doing test

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must be a specific action that is measurable

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Dead-persons test

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if a dead person can “do” it, it is not behavior

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Public Behavior

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Behavior that can be observed by others, even if special instrumentation is required

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Private Behavior

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

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Private Events

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A broader termfor private behavior that includes private behavior and private environmental events

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Response

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A specificinstance of behavior

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Response cycle

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The beginning, middle, and endof a response

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Behavior is a collective term

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Behavior refers to more than one occurrence of a specific behavior (multiple responses)

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Property

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A fundamental quality of a natural phenomenon

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Fundamental propertiesof behavior

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Temporal Locus, Temporal Extent, Repeatability

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Temporal Locus

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A single response occurs in time; associated with latency

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Temporal Extent

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A response occupies time; associated with duration

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Repeatability

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A response can reoccur; associated with countability

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Dimensional quantities

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A quantifiable aspect of a property

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Latency

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The amount of time between a stimulus and a response; associated with temporal locus

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Duration

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The amount of time between the beginning and the end of the response cycle; associated with temporal extent

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Countability

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The number of responses or number of cycles of the response class; associated with repeatability

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IRT(Interresponse Time)

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The time betweentwo successive responses; associated with repeatability and temporal locus

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Rate

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The ratio of the number of responses over some period of time; associated with repeatability and temporal locus

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Celeration

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Change in one of the other dimensional quantities of behavior over time; associated with repeatability and temporal locus

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Topography

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Configuration, form, or shape of a response

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Function

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The effects or results of a responseon the environment

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Magnitude and Intensity

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Topographical properties of a response class used to define behavior

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Response class

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

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Topographical Response Class

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A collection of two or more responses that share a common form

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Functional Response Class

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A collection of twoormore topographically different responses that all have the same effect on the environment, usually producing a specific class ofreinforcers

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Environment

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The total constellation of stimuli and conditions thatcan affect behavior

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Stimulus

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A change in the environment, which can affect behavior

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Types of Human receptors

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Vision, hearing, smell, taste, cutaneous sense, organic sense, kinesthesis, vestibular sense

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Stimulus class

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A group of stimuli that share a certain characteristic (along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions)

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Functional relation

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

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4 critical attributes of functional relations

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Orderly relations between stimulus andresponse classes, changes in one variable (IV) result in changes in the second variable (DV), value of the behavioral dimensions (DV) changes in an orderly fashion, functional relations demonstrated through systematic manipulations