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BEHP 2011 - Unit 1
Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Behavior Analysis | 1. natural science 2. functional relations between behavior and environment 3. technological applications |
| Behavior | Everything that an organism does |
| Skinner's definition of behavior | movement of organism or its parts in a frame of reference provided by the organism or by various external objects or fields |
| Critical attributes of behavior | 1. biological phenomenon 2. involves movement 3. can only be done by living organism 4. observable 5. measurable 6. involves interaction with environment |
| public behavior | can be observed by others even though special instrumentation may be required |
| private behavior | cannot be observed by others; can only be accessible to the organism who is engaging in the private event |
| examples of private events | 1. sensed conditions 2. feelings 3. thoughts |
| Response | specific instance of behavior |
| Response cycle | beginning, middle, and end of a response |
| examples of response cycle | 1. holding breath under water 2. screaming 3. face-slapping |
| Properties of Behavior | 1. temporal locus 2. temporal extent 3. repeatability |
| Temporal locus | single response occurs in time |
| temporal extent | response occupies time |
| repeatability | response can reoccur |
| Dimensional quantity | quantifiable aspect of a property |
| types of dimensional quantities | 1. latency 2. duration 3. countability 4. IRT 5. Rate 6. celeration |
| latency | time between stimulus and response |
| duration | time between beginning and end of response cycle |
| countability | number of cycles of the response class |
| interresponse time | time between 2 successive responses |
| rate | ratio of number of responses over period of time |
| celeration | change in one of the other quantities over time (acceleration or deceleration) in rate over time |
| topography | physical nature of responses |
| magnitude and intensity | topographical properties of a response class used to define behavior |
| function | effect of response on behavior |
| response class | grouping of individual actions or responses that share commonalities included in the class definition |
| topographical response class | collection of 2 or more responses which share common form |
| functional response class | collection of 2 or more topographically different responses that have the same effect on the environment usually producing a specific class of reinforcers |
| environment | total constellation of stimuli and conditions which can affect behavior |
| skin | only an artificial boundary |
| environmental context | situation in which behavior occurs at any given time |
| stimulus | change in environment which can affect behavior |
| physical characteristics stimuli can be classified by | **1. temporal relation to responses 2. effect on behavior 3. effects on other stimuli |
| antecedent | stimulus which precedes a response |
| consequence | stimulus which follows a response |
| stimulus class | group of stimuli that share certain characteristic |
| functional relations | changes in antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class |
| critical attributes of functional relations | 1. orderly relations exist between 2 classes of events 2. changes in IV result in changes in DV 3. Value of DV changes in orderly fashion 4. functional relations must be demonstrated through systematic manipulatoins |
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