Module 1

Question 1

Radical behaviorism

Answer 1

Takes the perspective that feelings, sensations, ideas, thoughts, and other features of mental life are subject to the same behavioral laws and principles as overt behaviors.

Question 2

Description

Answer 2

Allows us to simply describe what is going on.

Question 3

Radical behaviorism

Answer 3

Takes the perspective that feelings, sensations, ideas, thoughts, and other features of mental life are subject to the same behavioral law and principles as overt behaviors.

Question 4

Description

Answer 4

Allows us to simply describe what is going on.

Question 5

Prediction

Answer 5

Helps us determine when something may happen.

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Control

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Allows us to manipulate events to make something occur.

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Ontogeny

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Includes the learned behaviors of a particular organism during its lifetime.

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Phylogeny

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Represents behaviors that have been passed down over evolution of the entire species.

Question 9

Target behavior

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The behavior to be modified.

Question 10

Determinism

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The philosophical concept can be summarized as “the universe operates in an orderly fashion.”

Question 11

Generality

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When behavioral change proves to be durable over time, if it appears in a wide variety of possible environments, or if it spreads to a wide variety of related behaviors.

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Empiricism

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Derived from or guided by experience or experiment.

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Parsimony

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The simplest theory that fits the facts of a problem is the one that should be selected.

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Experimentation

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A method of inquiry based on empirical or measurable systematic observations measurement and experiment and the formulation, testing and modification of hypothesis or questions.

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Pragmatism

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A practical approach to problems in which truth is found in the process of verification.

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Selectionism

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Behaviors evolved and persist through natural selection in much the same way as Darwinian selectionism in the evolution of the species.

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Behavioral

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The intervention focuses on the target behavior.

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Applied

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When applying behavior analysis to an individual, you are targeting a behavior that is socially significant to them.

Question 19

Technological

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Interventions are described fully and can be replicated.

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Conceptually systematic

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When the basic principles of behavior are used to describe procedures/outcomes.

Question 21

Analytic

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Discovers and describes the functions of behavior in relation to the environment.

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Generality

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The behaviors/learned skills can generalize to other environments and people.

Question 23

Effective

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Targeting behavior that is significant to the individual, is cost-effective and can be maintained and generalized.

Question 24

Behavior

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What people say or do.

Question 25

Dimensions of behavior

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Frequency, duration, intensity, latency

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Dimension

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Measurable aspect of a behavior.

Question 27

Over behavior

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An action that can be observed and recorded by a person other than the one engaging in the behavior.

Question 28

Covert behavior

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Private events that are not observable by others.

Question 29

Behavior modification

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Is the applied science and professional practice concerned with analyzing and modifying human behavior.

Question 30

Analyzing

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Identifying the functional relationship between environmental events and a particular behavior to understand the reasons for the behavior or to determine why a person behaved the way they did.

Question 31

Modifying

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Developing and implementing procedures to help people change their behavior.

Question 32

Behavioral excess

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An undesirable target behavior the person wants to decrease in frequency, duration or intensity.

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Behavioral deficit

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Desirable target behavior the person wants to increase in frequency, duration, or intensity.

Question 34

Behaviorism

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The guiding theoretical framework behind behavior modification initially developed by B.F. Skinner.

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Experimental analysis of behavior

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Scientific study of behavior.

Question 36

Applied behavior analysis

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The scientific study of human behavior to help people change behavior in meaningful ways.

Question 37

Ivan P. Pavlov

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Conducted experiments that uncovered the basic processes of respondent conditioning. Demonstrated that reflexes could be conditioned.

Question 38

Edward L. Thorndike

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Major contribution was the Law of Effect. Famous experiment was the cat in the cage.

Question 39

Law of Effect

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States that a behavior that produces a favorable effect on the environment is more likely to be repeated in the future.

Question 40

John B Watson

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He described a stimulus response psychology in which environmental events elicited responses.

Question 41

B. F. Skinner

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Expanded the field of behaviorism and made the distinction between respondent conditioning and operant conditioning.

Question 42

Operant conditioning

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In which the consequence of behavior controls the future occurrence of the behavior.