EDF 6225 Final Exam study Guide|
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behavior analysis is composed of 3 major branches - ANSWER 1. behaviorism
2. experimental analysis of behavior (EAB)
3. ABA
behaviorism - ANSWER philosophy of the science of behavior
EAB - ANSWER basic research
ABA - ANSWER - Development of a technology for improving behavior
- Can only be understood in the context of the philosophy & basic research traditions & findings
recognized as moving the field of psychology in a new direction - ANSWER watson
Watson argued that - ANSWER subject matter for psychology should be the study of observable
behavior, not states of mind or mental processes
early form of behaviorism known as - ANSWER ◦stimulus-response (S-R) psychology
(Watsonian behaviorism)
◦Created foundation for the study of behavior as a natural science
BF skinner (founder of EAB) discussed two types of behavior - ANSWER 1.
respondent 2. operant
◦Respondents are elicited ("brought out") by stimuli that immediately precede
them ◦Antecedent stimulus & response it elicits form a functional unit called a
reflex ◦Involuntary responses
◦Occur whenever eliciting stimulus is present
◦S-R model
operant behavior - ANSWER ◦Behavior is shaped through the consequences that
immediately follow it
◦Three term contingency
◦S-R-S model
◦Behaviors that are influenced by stimulus changes that have followed the behavior in the past
EAB outlined specific methodology for its practice - ANSWER - The rate or frequency of
response is the most common dependent variable
- Repeated or continuous measurement is made of carefully defined response classes
- Within-subject experimental comparisons are used instead of designs comparing the
behavior of experimental & control groups
- Visual analysis of graphed data is preferred over statistical inference
- A description of functional relations is valued over formal theory testing
radical behaviorism - ANSWER Attempts to explain all behavior, including private behavior
(e.g. thinking & feeling
methodological behaviorism - ANSWER A philosophical position that views behavioral
events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science.
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