Unit 9 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Domains of Behavior Analysis
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Behavior Analysis Service Delivery
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior
The Basic foundation for our conceptual analyses and permeates all the branches
Radical Behaviorism
Uses cumulative records, manipulation of variables and automated recording
Experimental Analysis of Behavior(EAB)
Basic research; Discovery of basic principles and processes in the laboratory
Experimental Analysis of Behavior(EAB)
4 Methodologies of EAB
Direct,repeated measurement of behaviorRate of response as the basic datumVisual inference (graphing)Within subject comparisons
Design, implementation and evaluation of systematic environmental modifications to produce socially significant change in the real world (applied research)
ABA
Implementation of validated EAB and ABA procedures to assess and improve socially important human behaviors
ABA Practice
Seven dimensions of ABA
Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, Generality
Article that defined ABA and the 7 dimensions
“Some Current Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis” by Baer, Wolf, and Risley, 1968.
The implementation of basic principles to changebehaviors of significance to clients
Applied( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)
Behavior is directly observed and measured, usually in the real-life environment
Behavioral( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)
Seeks to identify functional relations between manipulated environmental events and behavior through systematic and controlled manipulations
Analytic ( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)
Procedures are completely identified, and precisely described and defined
Technological( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)
Procedures are linked to, and described in terms of, the basic principles of behavior
Conceptually Systematic (1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)
An accountable discipline with data-based procedure changes
Effective ( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)
Behavior changes achieved should maintain, transfer to other settings and situations, and spread to other behaviors
Generality ( 1 OF THE Dimensions of ABA)
Conceptual Analysis
Deals with philosophical and theoretical issues and history of our discipline related to these issues
The set of assessment and behavior change procedures validated by ABA researchers
Behavioral Technology
Past and current behavior is explained as a function of environmental contingencies
Environmental explanations
Mentalistic Explanations
Explain behavior by referring to hypothetical constructs from a dimension that is inferred to be inside the organism
Circular reasoningThe description becomes an explanation
Explanatory Fictions
2 Major Types of Explanatory Fictions
Mentalistic explanations, Teleological explanations
Summary labels of behavior (such as traits, states, attitudes,diagnostic categories) and other hypothetical constructs are used to explain behavior
Mentalisms
Future events are mistakenly used to explain behavior
Teleological Explanations