Intro and Unit 1 Flashcards
5000 Unit 1: Behavior and the Environment
What is behavior?
•everything an organism does
• the interaction of the muscles and glands of a live organism with the environment
OR
The movement of an organism or its parts in frame of reference provided by the organism or by various external objects or fields. – Skinner
what is non-behaviour?Give examples
–You are passive –You fail to do something –You don’t respond –You are non compliant –It is too BROAD, VAGUE or does not specify what the behaver is DOING (ex/ aggression, depression, noncompliance, knowing) No states, traits or attitudes
what test can be used to distinguish ehavior from non-behavior?
Dead person’s test: NOT doing something is NOT behavior
explain public behavior, give examples
Public behavior: can be observed by others, may require special instrumentation observe the behavior- eg. heart monitor
explain private behavior, give examples
cannot be observed by others, ONLY accessible to the person experiencing the private event
–Ex/ thinking (imagining, fantasizing), perceiving, feeling
what is the difference between ‘behaviour’ and ‘response’?
Behavior implies more than one response, it is a collective term.
•* A response: is a specific instance of behavior
what is Topography? explain, give examples
•*the physical nature of a response, what it looks like (including force, intensity, or magnitude)
what is function? explain, give examples
•*refers to the effect of a response on the environment
•Ex/
–I push a door and it opens
–I cry and someone hands me a cookie
–I put money in a vending machine and get chips
what is functional relation? explain, give examples
•* A functional relation is said to exist when changes in a stimulus class consistently alters a dimension of a response class –Functional relations are identified by systematic manipulation (When A, then B)
Functional response class
•*A group of two or more topographically different responses that have the same effect on the environment
Topographical Response Class
•*Two or more responses that share a common form occur in different contexts and have different effects on the environment.
–Same topography, different function or effect
What is the definition of a stimulus? 2 explanations, examples
•A change in the environment that can affect behavior
•An energy change that affects an organism through its receptors
–The onset and offset of a stimulus (light on or off)
–The magnification and attenuation of a stimulus (light bright or dim)
what is an antecedent?
Antecedents: come before behavior
what is a consequence?
•Consequences: after behavior
what is a stimulus class?
Stimulus Class
•group of stimuli that physically resemble one another and have similar effects on behavior
•When a function altering change with respect to one stimulus results in the other stimulus having been at least partially changed in the same way two stimuli are said to be members of the same stimulus class
what is temporal locus?
•*Temporal Locus: A single response occurs at a point in time
explain temporal extent
•*Temporal Extent: A response occupies time
what is repeatability?
•*Repeatability: A response can reoccur
what are the 3 fundamental properties of a response?
Basic characteristics of a response BEFORE they are measured
temporal locus, temporal extent and repeatability.
explain what a fundamental property is
Basic characteristics of a response BEFORE they are measured
explain what a dimentional quantity is
Dimensional Quantities
•Measures of the properties
what are the 3 dimensional quantities of a response
Latency, Duration, Countability/Frequency
what is latency?
Latency: the amount of time between a stimulus and a response (FP=Temporal locus)
define and describe ‘duration’?
Duration: the amount of time between the beginning and end of a response (FP= Temporal extent)
