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1.

Radical Behaviorism

2.

Applied Behavior Analysis

3.

Experiment

4.

Analytic

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A Functional Relation

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Conceptually Systematic

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Experimental Analysis of Behavior

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Methodological Behaviorism

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Hypothetical Constructs

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Mentalism

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Generality

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Effective

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Replication

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Defining Characteristics of ABA

A.

generalization of behavior change across people, environments or behaviors

B.

the procedures for changing behavior and rationale for why these procedures were effective should be described in terms of the principles from which they were derived

C.

A philosophical position that views behavior events that cannot be publically observed as outside of the realm of science

D.

the science in which tactics derived from principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement of behavior

E.

demonstrate a functional relationship between the manipulated events and a reliable change in the target behavior. Demonstrate effectiveness of the treatment and demonstrate experimental control

F.

must improve the target behavior to a practical degree; must produce behavior change that is clinically or socially significant

G.

repeating condition within an experiment to determine reliability of effects and increase internal validity

H.

A carefully conducted comparison of some measures of the phenomenon of interest (DV) under 2 or more different conditions in which only 1 factor at a time differs (IV)

I.

an approach to study behavior which assumes that a mental “inner” dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension

J.

A thoroughgoing form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including private events, in terms of controlling variables in the history of a person (onogeny) and the species (phylogeny)

K.

Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually systematic, Applied, Generality, Effective

L.

A __________ exists when a well controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in the DV can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of the IV

M.

__________: the natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by Skinner

N.

mediating variables inside the organism (cognitive processes, drives, and free will) (mentalilistic)

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