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Determinism
✓ Cause and Effect, Lawfulness: If/Then statements. The world is orderly and
predicable.
Latency
✓ The time between an SD and the response: "Bryson get your shoes on (SD) - Bryson
initiating getting his shoes on" The time from a reinforcer to the next response is a
latency and not an IRT, even if the reinforcer is response-produced.
Inner Response Time
✓ The time from the start of one response (behavior) to the start of the next response
(behavior). The time between two responses.
✓ Behaviorism is the philosophy and theory of behavioral science, widely recognized
due to the work of John B. Watson. Behaviorism was the predominate model in
psychology from the early to mid 1900's and is based on the principle that
psychology should be seen as a science. He argued that behavior is observable and
should be objectively and scientifically measured. Watson was primarily concerned
with the relationship between observable behaviors and environmental events rather
than on internal processes.
✓ the intensive study, under controlled conditions, of how environmental stimuli and
consequences regulate an individual organism's behavior.This is operant behavior,
behavior that is based on the consequences of that behavior. The creation of EAB
showed that the environment creates learned behaviors and has a functional relation.
It also allowed scientists to manipulate the environment in order to increase or
decrease an operant behavior. The theory of EAB was a result Skinners findings of
the S-R-S model or three-term contingency.
ABA
✓ Applied Behavior Analysis is a scientific-based field of study that uses behaviorism as
its philosophy and aims to improve socially significant behaviors through
experimentation. ABA is an applied science that develops methods of changing
behavior, and also, a profession that provides services to meet diverse behavioral
needs.
resistance to extinction
✓ Behavior that continues responding during the implementation of an extinction
procedure.
Ordinate
✓ y-axis on a graph, Vertical
abscissa
✓ x-axis (horizontal)
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