PASS THE BIG BCBA EXAM - Section 1 COMPLETE SOLUTION (100% CORRECT)

PASS THE BIG BCBA EXAM - Section 1 3 levels of scientific understanding ans: Description, Prediction, Control 3 principles of behavior ans: punishment, extinction, reinforcement 4 branches of behavior analysis ans: Conceptual analysis of behavior, ABA, Behavior Service Delivery, and Experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) ABA ans: refers to behavior analysts that assess, monitor, analyze, revise, and communicate the effects of their work. They create behavior-change tactics that can increase behavior, teach and maintain behavior, make behavior sensitive to environmental events, generalize behavior, reduce problem behavior, etc. Behavior service delivery ans: refers to the many people in various field of work implementing ABA within their professions. Circular reasoning ans: he cried because he felt sad. the sad feeling and crying are both inferred from the same depressive behaviors. Conceptual analysis of behavior (AKA: behaviorism) ans: examines philosophical, theoretical, historical and methodological issues. Control (causation) ans: functional relation. The highest level of scientific understand. Description ans: Systematic observations that can be quantified and classified. Experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) ans: research on basic processes and principles. Done mainly in laboratories. habituation ans: when the eliciting stimulus is presented repeatedly over a short time, the strength of the respondent behavior diminishes. Mentalism (spiritual, psychics, subjective, feelings, attitudes, processing) ans: -an approach to explaining behavior that assumes an inner dimension exists and causes behavior. -traditional psychology has been and continues to be dominated by this. ontogenic/ontogeny ans: learning that results from an organisms interaction with his/her environment. Operant behavior is due this history. operant behavior (S-R-S (stimulus-response-stimulus) model, 3-term contingency, ABC) ans: -emit/evoke, any behavior whose probability of occurrence is determined by its history of consequences. -operants must be defined in terms of their relationship to controlling variables (function). operant contingency (behavioral contingency, contingency, 3-term contingency, ABC) ans: -the occasion for a response (SD), the response, and the outcome of the response. -the dependency of a particular consequence on the occurrence of the behavior. -when a reinforcer or punisher is said to be "contingent" on a behavior, the behavior must be emitted for the consequence to occur. phylogenic/phylogeny ans: behavior that is inherited genetically. Respondent behavior is due to its history. Prediction ans: (correlation; covariation): two events may regularly occur at the same time. This does not necessarily mean one causes the other. Respondent Behavior (reflex, reflexive relations, unconditioned stimulus-unconditioned response (US-UR)) ans: involuntary, elicited by stimuli that immediately precede them, BEHAVIORS SOMEONE DOES NOT HAVE TO LEARN. -Reflex: the eliciting stimulus and the behavior it produces that is part of an organism's genetic endowment. respondent conditioning (classical conditioning; pavlovian conditioning; S-S (stimulus-stimulus) pairing; conditioned stimulus-conditioned responses (CS-CR) ans: when new stimuli acquire the ability to elicit respondents. Respondent-Operant Interactions ans: an experience can often include both respondent and operant conditioning that occur together at the same time. what is not behavior - the dead man test ans: -being hungry is not behavior. -being anxious is not behavior. -getting wet is not behavior. -receiving money is not behavior. -being blown over by a strong gust of wind is not behavior.