Lecture 1 Flashcards
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A form of behaviourism that attempts to understand all human behaviour, including private events such as thoughts and feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person.
Radical Behaviourism
A natural science approach to the study of behaviour. An emphasis on describing functional relations between behaviour and controlling variables in the environment.
The Experimental Analysis of Behaviour
The science where principles of behaviour are applied to improve socially signinficant behaviour and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behaviour.
Applied Behaviour Analysis
The history of the development of an individual organism during its lifetime
Ontogeny
The history of the natural evolution of a species.
Phylogeny
The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy-nilly accidental fashion.
Determinism
The obective observation of the phenomena of interest.
Empiricism
Identification of functional relations. Change independent variable to see what happens to the dependent variable
Experimentation
An attitude that the truthfulness validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned.
Philosophic Doubt
Repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity.
B, repeating whole experiments to detemine the generality of findings of previous experiments to other subjects, settings and/or behaviours.
Replication
The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations.
Parsimony.
A specific change in one event (dependent variable) can be produced by manipulating another event (independent variable) and the change in the dependent variable was unlikely the result of other factors.
Functional Relation
Behaviours of social significance and immediate importance to the participant: Benefit the participants
Applied
Behaviour must be in need of intervention, measurable and if change occurs, Who’s behaviour has changed?
Behavioural
This is the defining characteristic of applied behavior analysis that demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and non-occurrence of the behavior.
Analytic
Procedures used are identified and precisely described
Technological
Procedures are reported in terms of the relevant behavioural principles
Conceptually Systematic
Must improve the behaviour under investigation to a practical degree
Effective
Behaviour change has generality if it lasts over time, appears in novel environments or spreads to novel behaviours
General
Consists in appealing to initiating causes from an inner dimension when trying to explain behaviour
Mentalism
In which mind is presumed to cause behaviour- probably the most common form of mentalism
Dualism
Include thoughts, feelings, emotions and attitiudes… They are private because only the person who has them can observe them
Private Events
The level of investigation that involves the collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts, and often suggests hypotheses or questions for additional research is:
Description
The level of investigation that demonstrates correlation between events and is based on repeated observations is
Prediction
