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BCBA Examination Study Resource - Fully Solved and Verified 1968 - answer - JABA was established Baer Wolf Ridley published "Some Current Dimensions of ABA" ABA - answer - The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior. behavior - answer - the activity of living organisms, includes everything that people do and say. behaviorism - answer - the philosophy of the science of behavior controlling variable - answer - The environmental events (antecedents and consequences) that influence the probability of a particular behavior. covert behavior - answer - Behavior that is not observable to others. determinism (attitude of Science) - answer - the assumption that the universe if a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy nilly accidental fashion discriminated operant - answer - An operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than under others. Empiricism (Attitude of Science) - answer - The objective observation of the phenomena of interest environment - answer - The conglomerate of real circumstances in which the organism or referenced part of the organism exists **Behavior cannot occur in the absence of an environment. environmental variables - answer - Variables that are relevant to describing the stimulus environment. **These can include people and items present. experiment - answer - a carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) - answer - a natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by B.F.Skinner **methodological features include rate of response as a basic dependent vairable, repeated or continuous measurement of clearly defined response classes, within-subject experimental comparisons instead of group design, visual analysis of graphed data instead of statistical inference, and an emphasis on describing functional relations between behavior and controlling variables in the environment over formal theory testing explanatory fiction - answer - A hypothetical variable that often takes the form of another name for the observed phenomenon it claims to explain and contributes nothing to a functional account or understanding of the phenomenon. hypothetical construct - answer - a presumed but unobserved process or entity Mentalism (attitude of Science) - answer - An approach to explaining behavior that assumes that a mental, or "inner," dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension and that phenomena in this dimension either directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior, if not all. methodological behaviorism - answer - A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science. Ontogeny - answer - The history of development of an individual organism during its lifetime. operant conditioning - answer - occurs when a behavior in a particular situation is followed by a reinforcing consequence, thus making the behavior more likely to occur in a similar circumstance in the future parsimony (attitude of Science) - answer - The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations. philosophical doubt (attitude of Science) - answer - an attitude that the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned. Phylogeny - answer - The history of the natural evolution of a species Pragmatism (attitude of Science) - answer - inductive reasoning that draws general rules based on specific observation (goes with behaviorism) p