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ABA Exam 1
Chapter 1 and Bear Wolf Risley
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Applied | Focus is on behaviors having social significance |
| Behavioral | Focus is on observable events |
| Analysis | Emphasis is on demonstration of functional relationships |
| Technological | All procedures are identified and clearly described |
| Conceptually Systematic | Procedures are related to basic principles from which they are derived |
| Effective | Intervention results in socially significant behavior change |
| Generalizable | Extension of behavior change across time, setting, or other behaviors |
| ABA | The scientific study of human behavior to help people change behavior in meaningful ways |
| Behavior | What people do and say |
| Behaviorism | The guiding theoretical framework behind behavior modification |
| Behavioral excess | An undesirable target behavior that the individual wants to decrease in frequency, duration, or intensity |
| Behavior modification | The applied science and professional practice concerned with analyzing and modifying human behavior |
| Behavioral deficit | A desirable target behavior the individual wants to increase in frequency, duration, or intensity |
| Controlling variable | The environmental events that are functionally related to the behavior |
| Covert behaviors | Behaviors that are not observable by others |
| Dimensions | A measurable aspect of the behavior |
| Experimental analysis of behavior | The scientific study of behavior |
| Law of effect | States that a behavior that produces a favorable effect on the environment is more likely to be repeated in the future |
| Overt behavior | An action that can be observed and recorded by a person other than the one engaging in the behavior |
| Target behavior | The behavior to be modified |
| Frequency | You can count the number of times a behavior occurs |
| Duration | The time from when an instance of the behavior starts until it stops |
| Intensity | The physical force involved in the behavior |
| Latency | The duration between the delivery of a given stimulus and the reply to that particular stimulus |