Task List A Flashcards
A science is based on the use of learning principles to improve socially important behavior.
ABA
Purpose of Science
To find truths in nature, which are universally understood and independent of any group’s beliefs and/or opinions.
To understand the subject that is being studied. In ABA, this refers to the socially significant behaviors we aim to change
Provides us with 3 levels of understanding
1st level of understanding
Facts that are derived from systematically observed events
Facts that can be quantified and classified to help us test for possible relationships
Facts that help us identify a hypothesis for further exploration
Description
AKA: Correlation, Covariation
2nd level of scientific understanding
Prediction
AKA: Causations
3rd and highest level of scientific understanding
Control
ACRONYM: DPC
Description
Prediction
Control
Upon what science is based
The world is an orderly, predictable and lawful place, where everything is cause and effect; if/then conditions.
Determinism
Upon what knowledge is built
The act of objective observation and measurement
Empiricism
Explain the 5 philosophical assumptions underlying science of behavior analysis
ACRONYM: DEPPS
Determinism Empiricism Parsimony Pragmaticism Selectionism
Reliance on the simplest theory requiring the fewest assumptions before considering more complex explanations, you must first rule out the simple and logical explanations.
Parsimony
A practical approach to problems in which truth is found in the process of verification
Pragmatism
Selection by consequences
Selections
AKA; Experimental Analysis
Basic strategies of most sciences
Experimentation
Repeating experiments
1 experiment has value, but its not enough
Replication
Question the truth
Having a healthy skepticism/ a critical eye about the results of studies/ work with clients
Philosophical Doubt
Target the behavior in need of improvement
Must be measurable, including any use of language that’s behavioral (not a description of feelings)
Behavioral
Improves socially significant behaviors in real world settings (e.g, social language, academic, daily living, self-care, vocational, and/or recreational and leisure skills
Applied
Direct and precisely replicable procedures
Technological
All ABA procedures used should be derived from the basic principles of behavior analysis (punishment, extinction, reinforcement)
Conceptually Systematic
AKA: Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation
ABA requires a functional relationship is shown
Analytic
AKA: Generalization
Any behavior change that persists across time, across other settings, across other behaviors, and across other people
Generality
ABA technologies should improve behavior enough that it makes a socially significant difference in the person’s life
Effective
BATCAGE
Behavioral Applied Technological Conceptually Systematic Analytic Generativity Effective
AKA: spiritual, psychic, subjective, feelings, attitudes, processing
To understand what makes our science behavioral, we have to understand this
Mentalism
