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| Definition of Behavior Analysis |
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Simple: The science of behavior change
Better: The study of the functional relations between behavioral and environmental events |
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| Functional Relations Definition |
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| The tendency of one event to vary in a regular way with one or more other events |
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| Overt vs Covert Behaviors |
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| overt is shown openly (speaking), covert is concealed (thinking) |
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Definition: Behavior that is most readily influenced by the events that precede it.
involuntary or reflexive. example: the startled response to a loud airplane flying overhead. it can/will cause a physiological response like an increase in heartrate. |
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| Definition: Behavior that is readily influenced by events that follow it. |
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| All the given things an individual is capable of doing at any given moment. Includes overt, covert, respondent and operant behaviors |
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| Any event in a person's environment that can be observed |
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| Environmental events that occur before a behavior |
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| Environmental events that occur after a behavior |
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Antecedents
Behavior
Consequences
This is the subject matter of ABA |
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| What is behavior analysis searching for? |
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| Behavior Analysis searches for the functional relationship among behavior and its antecedents and consequences |
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| Three Term Contingency. Who and What |
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Skinner: interaction between the organism and the environment must always specify three things:
1. the occasion upon which a response occurs
2. the response itself
3. the consequences |
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| What is behavior analysis not concerned with? |
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| drives, needs, expectations, unconscious conflicts, other intervening variables. Behavior and the events in a person's surroundings that precede and follow behavior |
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| "All the environmental events(antecedents and consequences) that have affected a person's behavior up to the present" |
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| Applied Behavior Analysis |
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The attempt to solve behavior problems by providing antecedents and or consequences that change behavior.
Concerned with using environmental events to change behavior in desirable ways |
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| The view that behavior problems are merely symptoms of an underlying psychological disorder |
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| Medical model is accepted by |
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medical professionals, psychologists, teachers, social workers,
EVERYONE BUT BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS |
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| Why don't Behaviorists accept the medical model? |
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| They think if you change the behavior then you've solved the problem. |
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The idea that if a behavior problem is solved without resolving the underlying psychological disorder, anther behavior problem will take its place"
There's no scientific evidence to support this |
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| set of assumptions that underlie the scientific analysis of behavior including applied behavior analysis |
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