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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a __________ approach or discovering environmental ___________________ and for developing a ______________ of _____________ ______________ that is ____________ and _... _____________. - ANSWER Scientific, variables, technology, behavior change, practical, applicable. Science is a _____________ approach for ________ and _____________ knowledge about the _____________ world. Science is based on __________________. - ANSWER systematic, seeking, organizing, natural, determinism Purpose of Science is to achieve a ____________ understanding of the ___________ under study. - ANSWER thorough, phenomena In ABA, the phenomena are _____________ _____________ _____________. - ANSWER socially, important (significant) behaviors What are the three levels of scientific understanding? - ANSWER Description, Prediction, Control (Dinosaurs Play Cars) Description is ______________ observations that can be ________________ and _____________. Not ___________ _____________. - ANSWER scientific, quantified, classified. Causal explanations. Prediction (AKA: Correlation; covariation); Two events may regularly occur at the ________ time. This does not necessarily mean that they ____________ each other. - ANSWER same, cause Example of Description - ANSWER Number of praise statements made my teachers in a classroom. Example of prediction - ANSWER When the weather is hot there are more drowning deaths. They are related, but we cannot assume hot weather causes drowning deaths. Control (AKA Causation) _____________ Relation: The ____________ level of ___________ understanding. ______________demonstration that ______________ one event (_____________ variable) results in another event (_____________variable.) - ANSWER Functional. Highest. Experimental, manipulating, independent, dependent. Example of Control - ANSWER Students with longer breaks in a classroom had less problem behavior. Exhibited multiple times yielding same results. Penicillin bacterial Infection What's another word for prediction? - ANSWER Correlation or covariation What's another word for Control? - ANSWER Causation What are the six attitudes of science/ philosophical assumptions of behavior? - ANSWER 1. Determinism 2. Empiricism 3. Experimentation (AKA: Experimental Analysis) 4. Replication 5. Parsimony 6. Philosophical Doubt Determinism is: A. __________ and __________ B. Lawfulness ___/___ Statements C. The world is _________and___________. - ANSWER Cause and Effect If/ then, Orderly and Predictable Empiricism is: A. ______ B. __________, ____________-based ____________ approach, drawing upon _____________ and _____________. C. Requires __________ quantification and detailed __________ of events. - ANSWER Facts. Experimental, data, Scientific, observation and experience Experimentation is: The _______ strategy of most __________. Requires_____________ variables so as to see the ___________ on the _______ ____________. A ___________ to determine if one event ________ another event. - ANSWER Basic, sciences manipulating, effects, dependent variable (DV) assessment, caused What is another name for experimentation - ANSWER Experimental Analysis Replication is: ___________ experiments The method that ______________ use to determine the ______________ and ___________ of their findings. How scientists discover their __________. thus, making science a ____________-______________ enterprise. - ANSWER Repeating Scientists, reliability and usefulness mistakes, self-correcting Parsimony is: The ________ theory All ____________ and ____________ explanations must be ______ ______ before considering more __________ explanations. Help scientists fit findings within the fields __________- knowledge base. - ANSWER simplest simple, logical, ruled out, complex existing Philosophical Doubt is: Having _______ ____________ and ________ eye about the _________ of your studies and your _____ with clients. - ANSWER healthy, skepticism, critical, results, work What are the 7 Dimensions of ABA? BATCAGE - ANSWER 1. Behavioral 2. Applied 3. Technological 4. Conceptually Systematic 5. Analytical 6. Generality 7. Effective What is another name or Analytical? - ANSWER Functional Relation, Experimentation, Control, Causation Behavioral is: _______ Events The behavior one chooses must be the behavior in ___________ of ___________. - ANSWER Observable, need, improvement What is an example of behavioral? - ANSWER In order to see how to improve grades in students, you would measure behavior of academic grades and not social skills. Behavior must be _____________ not ___________. - ANSWER Measurable, feelings Applied is: ABA ______ the ________- lives of _________ Improves__________ ____________ ___________. Also helps others (______, ___________) so that they behave more ______ towards the ________. - ANSWER improves, every day, clients Socially, significant, behaviors Parents/ caregivers, positively client Technological is....... Defines _____________ __________ and in ___________ so they are _______ like a (_______________.) - ANSWER procedures, detail, replicable, recipe Conceptually Systematic is: All ________ used should be _________ to the __________ principles of _____ __________ from which they were ___________. - ANSWER procedures, tied, basic, behavior analysis, derived Analytical is: a __________ ____________ is demonstrated Describes when the ____________ has demonstrated a ___________ _____________ between the ______________ events and the __________ change in some _________________ dimension of the _______________ behavior. ultimate issue is _______________: Is the experimental control sufficient to prove a __________ functional relation? - ANSWER Functional Relationship experimenter, functional relation, manipulated, reliable, measurable, target believability, reliable What's another name for generality? - ANSWER Generalization Generality is: Extends ___________ change across _________, _________ or other ______________. - ANSWER behavior, time, settings, behavior Effective is: _____________ behavior in a ___________ manner, not simply making a ___________ that is ___________ significant. - ANSWER Improves, practical, change, statistically Name the three parts of mentalism terminology. - ANSWER 1. Hypothetical Construct 2. Explanatory Fiction 3. Circular Reasoning What are some other names for mentalism? - ANSWER Spiritual , psychic, subjective, feelings, attitudes, processing Mentalism is: An approach to ______________ behavior that assumes a ___________ dimension exists and _________ behavior. ____________ psychology has been and continues to be dominated by mentalism - ANSWER explaining, inner, causes Traditional Give an example of mentalism - ANSWER Freud, talk therapy Hypothetical constructs are: Presumed, but _______ entities. - ANSWER unobserved What is another name for hypothetical constructs? - ANSWER Imaginary Constructs What are some examples of hypothetical constructs? - ANSWER Free will, readiness, information processing Explanatory Fictions are: Fictitious variables that are another name for _______________ behavior. They contribute _____________ to an understanding of variables responsible for ____________ behavior. Words that are associated with explanatory fiction include the following: - ANSWER observed Nothing, maintaining knows, wants, figures out Circular Reasoning is: The _________- and ____________ are both inferred by the __________ information. - ANSWER Cause, effect, same What is an example of circular reasoning? - ANSWER He cried because he felt sad.... The sad and crying feeling are both inferred from the same depressive behaviors. Behaviorism is: The ________________ of the _____________ of behavior. It emerged in the early _________ century as a reaction to _____________ psychology, which often had ________ making _______ that could not be tested using _____ methods. ___________ (not ____________) explanation of ____________. - ANSWER Philosophy, science 20th, mentalistic, difficulty predictions, experimental Environmental, mentalistic, behavior What are the 4 Branches of Behavior Analysis? CASE - ANSWER 1. Conceptual Analysis o Behavior 2. ABA 3. Behavior SERVICE Delivery 3. Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) What is another name for Conceptual Analysis of behavior? - ANSWER Behaviorism Conceptual Analysis of Behavior is: Examines ____________, ____________, _____________and ______________ issues. - ANSWER Philosophical, Theoretical, Historical, Methodological ABA: ____________ for ___________ behavior - ANSWER Method, improving Behavior Service Delivery: ____________ practice and ___________. - ANSWER Professional, consultation Experimental Analysis of behavior (EAB): ____________ on _________ processes and principles. _____________. - ANSWER Research, basic Laboratories Ivan Petorvich Pavlov discovered... ___________ _____________ __________ conditioning with ______________ ________ (year Pavlov publishes first study - ANSWER Classical Conditioning Respondent, dogs 1906 1900's ___________ dominates psychology - ANSWER Mentalism John Broadus Watson discovered....... 1913: First person to describe _____________ as a formal system. Influenced by _____________. _____________ behaviorism only looks at ___________ _____________ events in their __________ of behavior. [Show More]

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