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Applied Behavior Analysis: key concepts and definitions
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- 1What is Applied Behavior Analysis?The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.
- 2What is behaviorism?The philosophy of a science of behavior; there are various forms of behaviorism.
- 3What is determinism?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.
- 4What is empiricism?The objective observation of the phenomena of interest; objective observations are "independent of individual prejudices, tastes, and private opinions of the scientist.
- 5What is experimental analysis of behavior?A natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by B.F. Skinner; methodological features include rate of response as a basic dependent variable, repeated or continuous measurement of clearly defined response classes, within-subject experimental comparisons instead of group design, visual analysis of graphed data instead of statistical inference, and an emphasis on describing functional relations between behavior and controlling variables in the environment over formal theory testing.
- 6What is explanatory fiction?A fictitious or hypothetical variable that often takes the form of another name for the observed phenomenon it claims to explain and contributes nothing to a functional account or understanding of the phenomenon, such as "intelligence" or cognitive awareness" as explanation for why an organism pushed the lever when the light is on and food is available but does not push the lever when the light is off and no food is available.
- 7What is a hypothetical construct?A presumed but unobserved process of entity.
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