Discriminated avoidance - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Response - ANSWER A single instance of behavior, its a measurable unit of analysis in the science of behavior Behavior - ANSWER Larger set/class of responses that share physical dimensions or functions Response Class - ANSWER A group of behaviors that comprise an operant (have the same function) Repertoire - ANSWER All the behaviors an individual can do, its a collection of knowledge and skills an individual has learned that are relevant to a particular task Environment - ANSWER Comp...

Response - ANSWER A single instance of behavior, its a measurable unit of analysis in the science of behavior Behavior - ANSWER Larger set/class of responses that share physical dimensions or functions Response Class - ANSWER A group of behaviors that comprise an operant (have the same function) Repertoire - ANSWER All the behaviors an individual can do, its a collection of knowledge and skills an individual has learned that are relevant to a particular task Environment - ANSWER Comp...

3 levels of scientific understanding - ANSWER-DPC Description Prediction Control Description - ANSWER-Systematic observations that can be quantified & classified Prediction - ANSWER-AKA: correlation; covariation 2 events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not mean one causes the other Control - ANSWER-AKA: causation Functional relation. The highest level of scientific understanding. Experimental demonstration that manipulating one event (IV) results in anothe...

EDF 6225 Chapter 1 and 2 (For test #1) 111 Questions with Verified Answers Applied Behavior Analysis: The science in which tactics derived from the principles of _________ are applied to improve ________ significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change. - CORRECT ANSWER behavior socially ________________: The idea that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as a result of other events, or are sys...

EDF 6225: Test #2|92 Questions with Verified Answers Automatic Reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others (often sensory). This is assumed when a behavior persists in the absence of any known reinforcement. Conditioned Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWER a stimulus that has acquired reinforcing properties through prior learning/species history. Generalized Conditioned Reinforcer - CORRECT ANSWER A conditioned reinforcer that as a resul...

Accommodation - ANSWER-A style of dealing with conflict involving cooperation on behalf of the other party but not being assertive about one's own interests Accounting audits - ANSWER-Procedures used to verify accounting reports and statements Acquisition - ANSWER-One firm buying another Activity-Based costing (ABC) - ANSWER-A method of cost accounting designed to identify streams of activity and then to allocate costs across particular business processes according to the mount of time...

Organizational Behavior, Version 1.1 Bauer & Erdogan FWK Test Item File All Chapters Organizational Behavior, Version 1.1 Bauer & Erdogan FWK Test Item File Chapter 1 TRUE/FALSE 1. Flat World Knowledge was started by two textbook publishing industry veterans. 2. Flat World Knowledge is improving on the traditional publishing model but is not innovating much. 3. So far, Flat World Knowledge is a start up without any external funding. 4. Most successful CEOs believe, “A company is only as good a...

John Watson - ANSWER-Methodological Behaviourism (S-R Behaviourism, S-R Psychology) 1913-First person to describe behaviourism as formal system. Methodological Behaviourism only looks at publicly observed events. Not concerned with private events. Study Bx by direct observation of relationship between environemtal stimulus (S) and responses (R) they evoke 1920- Little Albert Experiment Ivan Pavlov - ANSWER-Classical Conditioning Respondent conditioning with dogs Habituation - ANSWE...

Why study developmental psychology? - answer-- To understand human nature - To shape social policy - To enrich human life developmental psychology - answer-a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span The study of change + continuity in the things that fundamentally determine how you change and interact with the world the study of how people change and how they stay the sameacross their life two types of development pysch - an...

This branch of ABA examines philosophical, theoretical, historical and methodological issues - ANSWER Conceptual Analysis of Behavior Another name for the Conceptual Analysis of behavior - ANSWER Behaviorism This branch of ABA deals with research on basic processes and principles and is mainly done in laboratories - ANSWER Experimental Analysis of Behavior This branch of ABA deals with accessing, monitoring, analyzing, revising and communicating. - ANSWER Applied Behavioral Analysis ...