| Term | Definition |
| Domains of Behavior Analysis | The Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Behavior Analysis Service Delivery
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior |
| Radical Behaviorism | The basic foundation for our conceptual analyses and permeates all the branches |
| Experimental Analysis of Behavior | Basic research; provides the scientific method for studying behavior by using cumulative records, manipulation of variables, and automated recording |
| Applied Behavior Analysis | Applied research that applies the basic principles derived from EAB to solve problems of social significance |
| ABA Practice | To help other persons to achieve
their outcomes with the implementation of procedures validated by ABA researchers to make a difference in people’s lives. |
| Methodologies of EAB | Direct, repeated measurement of behavior
Rate of response as the basic datum
Visual inference (graphing)
Within subject comparisons |
| Seven Dimensions of ABA | Applied
Behavioral
Analytic
Technological
Conceptually Systematic
Effective
Generality |
| Applied | The implementation of basic principles to change behaviors of significance to clients. |
| Behavioral | Directly observed and measured. |
| Analytic | Seeks to identify functional relations between manipulated environmental events and behavior through systematic and controlled manipulations. |
| Technological | Procedures are completely identified, and precisely described and defined |
| Conceptually Systematic | Procedures are linked to, and described in terms of, the basic principles of behavior |
| Effective | An accountable discipline in which changes in procedure are data-based |
| Generality | Behavior changes achieved should maintain, transfer to other settings and situations, and spread to other behaviors |
| Conceptual Analysis | Deals with philosophical and theoretical issues |
| Behavioral Technology | The set of assessment and behavior change procedures validated by ABA researchers |
| Environmental Explanations | Past and current behavior is explained as a function of environmental contingencies |
| Explanatory Fictions | Mentalistic explanations
Teleological explanations |
| Mentalistic Explanations | These explain behavior by referring to hypothetical constructs from a dimension that is inferred to be inside the organism |
| Mentalisms | Summary Labels of behavior (such as traits, states, attitudes,diagnostic categories) and other hypothetical constructs are used to explain behavior |
