Behavior analysis
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- The law of effect says
- the effects of our actions determine whether we will repeat them
- A functional assessment is
- an analysis of the contingencies responsible for behavioral problems
- Checking social validity is
- making sure the goals, procedures and results of an intervention are acceptable to the client, the behavior analyst and society
- The target behavior is
- the behavior being measured, the dependent variable
- Social comparison
- a comparison of the performance of clients exposed to the intervention with an equivalent or normal group
- The subjective evaluation of experts is
- the experts evaluation of the signifigance of the target behavior and the outcome
- Force is
- the intensity of the response
- Inter-observer agreement is
- the agreement between observation of two or more independent observers
- To confound variables means to
- change or allow to change two or more independent variables at the same time, so you cannot determine what variables are responsible for the change in the dependent variable
- A case study is
- the evauation of the effects of an applied intervention or naturally evolving set of conditions in such a way that it is not possible to discover the cause of the effects
- Internal validity refers to
- the extent a research design eliminates confounding variables
- Research design
- the arrangement of the various conditions of an experiment or intervention to reduce the confounding of independent variables
- Baseline is the phase of an experiment where
- the beavior is measured in the absence of an intervention
- simple baseline
- experimental design in which the baseline data are collected before the intervention
- A reversal design is an experimental design in which
- the intervention and baseline conditons are reversed to assess the effects of those conditions
- A multiple-baseline design is
- where the replications involve multiple baselines of different durations and interventions of different starting times
- Duration
- the time from the beginning to the end of a response
- Frequency
- the # of instances of behavior
- A changing criterion design is where
- the replications involve interventions with criteria of differeing values
- An alternating-treatments design is where
- the replications involve presenting difft values of the indeendent variable in an alternating sequence under the same general conditions or in the same experimental phase, whil measuring the same dependent variables
- An experimental interaction is where
- one experimental condition affects the results of another
- External validity
- extent to which the conclusions of an experiment apply to a wide variety of conditions
- performance maintenance
- continuing of performance after first est.
- Behavior trap
- add a reinforcement contingency to increase the rate of behavior. Then the behavior will frequently contact built in contingencies will maintain that behavior
- A stimulus-response chain is a
- sequence of stimuli and responses, each resonse produces a change in the environment that acts as an Sd or operandum for the next response
- Dual-functioning of chained stimuli
- a stimulus in a behavioral chain reinforces the response that precedes it, that stimulus also acts as and Sd or operandum for the response that follows it
- Forward chaining
- est of the first link in a behavioral chain with the addition of successive links until final link is acquired
- backward chaing
- est of final link in chain, with addition of links until first link is acquired
- total task presentation
- simultaneous training of all links in a behavioral chain
- Parsimony
- the use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions
- respondent conditioning
- neutral stimulus acquires the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through pairing the unconditioned stimuls with a neutral stimulus
- operant conditioning
- reinforcing consequences immediately following the response increase its future frequency and aversive consequence decrease it
- Higher order conditioning
- est a conditioned stimulus by pairing a neutral stimulus with an already est conditioned stimulus
- systematic desensitization
- combingin relaxation with a hierarchy of fear producing stimuli arranged from least to most frightening
- reflex is the
- relationship between the UC stimulus and the UR
- The law of latency
- time between the onset of the response and the eliciting stimulus
- The law of intensity or magnitude
- relationship between the intensity of the sliciting stimulus and the size or magnitude of the evoked response
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