SPE 563: Foundational Terminology Cumulative Assessment Study Guide

SPE 563: Foundational Terminology Cumulative Assessment Study Guide Applied - Ans:-Requires that scientists and practitioners selecting behaviors for change that are socially significant. Experimental Analysis of Behavior - Ans:-Founded by Skinner, this natural science focuses on studying operant behavior as a subject matter, using single subject experimental designs rather than group designs, to measure behavior as a dependent variable. Analytic - Ans:-Requires that experimenters have used single subject research designs to demonstrate a functional relation, or a believable demonstration of the efficacy of an intervention. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - Ans:-This is the science in which the principles of behavior are used to improve socially important behaviors and experimental analysis is used to determine which variables are responsible for improvement. Behavior - Ans:-Requires that variables under study be observable and measurable. Methodological Behavior - Ans:-Refers to a philosophical position in which behavioral events that cannot be observed are not behaviors. ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/6 Principles of Behavior - Ans:-Reinforcement and Punishment. Technical - Ans:-Requires the thorough and accurate description of procedures used in interventions. Generativity - Ans:-Requires that behaviors last over time and appear in other environments other than the that of training. Effective - Ans:-Requires that improvement of behavior be socially significant and based on a visual analysis of data. Determinism - Ans:-An assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events, not in accidental fashion. Natural Event - Ans:-An event that is locatable in time and space in the natural world. Pragmatism - Ans:-The notion that a question is only worth pursuing if the answer to it would change our knowledge of the world. Mentalism - Ans:-An assumption of an "inner" dimension as the explanation of behavior. Public Event - Ans:-An event observed by another person. Explanatory Fiction - Ans:-A fictitious variable, often another name for an observable behavior, which implies an inner cause for the behavior. ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/6 Private Event - Ans:-An event that can only be observed and verified by the individual performing the behavior. Realism - Ans:-The view of the world that assumes only the natural world, which presupposes an absolute truth. Conceptual - Ans:-Requires that interventions used must be based on the principles of behavior and have empirical evidence supporting efficacy. Radical Behaviorism - Ans:-Represents Skinner's "far-reaching" and "thoroughgoing" form of behaviorism that includes both public and private behaviors. Positive Reinforcement - Ans:-Refers to the delivery of something prefe