Basic Principles of ABA Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

Basic Principles of ABA Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions What is ABA? - Correct Answer️️ -The science in which procedures derived from the principles of behavior are systematically applied to improve socially significant behavior to a meaningful degree and to demonstrate experimentally that the procedures employed were responsible for the improvement in behavior. Dimensions of ABA (7) - Correct Answer️️ -1. Applied 2. Behavioral 3. Analytic 4. Conceptually Systematic 5. Technological 6. Effective 7. Generavity Goals of ABA (2) - Correct Answer️️ -To increase new skills (functioning) To decrease problem behaviors (suffering) Properties of Science (6) - Correct Answer️️ -1. Objective 2. Determinism 3. Empiricism TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 2/13 4. Parsimony 5. Scientific Manipulation 6. Philsophic Doubt Explanatory Fiction - Correct Answer️️ -Circular way of viewing cause and effect. He's autistic because of his behaviors but his behaviors lead him to be autistic. B.F. Skinner - Correct Answer️️ -1953 Related work with organisms to human behavior "Operant Conditioning" Pavlov - Correct Answer️️ -Respondent/Classical Conditioning What is Behavior? - Correct Answer️️ -An organism's interaction with it's environment that is characterized by detectable displacement of space through time of some part of the organism that results in a measurable change. Response - Correct Answer️️ -Action of an organism Topography - Correct Answer️️ -Physical form of behavior (Poking, pointing, pushing button) Response Class - Correct Answer️️ -Group of responses with the same function Repertoire - Correct Answer️️ -All of the behaviors a person can do. TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 3/13 Antecedent - Correct Answer️️ -Environmental conditions that exist or occur prior to the target behavior Consequence - Correct Answer️️ -Stimulus change that follows a target behavior Environment - Correct Answer️️ -the entire spectrum of stimuli, internal and external, acting on an organism Stimulus - Correct Answer️️ -An energy change that affects an organism Stimulus Class - Correct Answer️️ -Any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of elements (size, shape, function) Respondent Behavior - Correct Answer️️ -elicited by antecedent only through the two- term contingency (Antecedent --> Response) do not need to be learned (eye blink, coughing) Habituation - Correct Answer️️ -Gradually diminishing response strength Respondent Conditioning - Correct Answer️️ -Pavlov UCS -->Neutral Stimulus CS --->CR (stimulus pairing) Respondent Extinction - Correct Answer️️ -Repeatedly presenting the unconditioned stimulus until the conditioned stimulus no longer elicits the conditioned response TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 4/13 Operant Behavior - Correct Answer️️ -future frequency is determined by its history of consequences Operant Conditioning - Correct Answer️️ -three term contingency: A-->B-->C process & effects of consequences on behavior Dependent Variable - Correct Answer️️ -what is being changed, what is being measured "effect" Independent Variable - Correct Answer️️ -the intervention "cause" Positive Reinforcement - Correct Answer️️ -SR+ or Sr+ When a stimulus is added or increased, resulting in the behavior happening again in the future Negative Reinforcement - Correct Answer️️ -SR-/Sr- When a stimulus is removed or decreased, resulting in the behavior happening again in the future Positive Punishment - Correct Answer️️ -SP+/Sp+ Type I When an aversive stimulus is increased or added, resulting in the behavior decreasing or ceasing Negative Punishment - Correct Answer️️ -SP-/Sp- TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 5/13 Type II When a pleasurable stimulus is decreased or removed, resulting in the behavior decreasing or ceasing Temporal Locus - Correct Answer️️ -Behavior occupies a point in time Latency - Correct Answer️️ -Time between the Antecedent and the Behavior Inter-Repsonse Time (IRT) - Correct Answer️️ -Duration between responses Temporal Extent - Correct Answer️️ -Behavior occupies a length of time Duration - Correct Answer️️ -Time between onset and offset of response Repeatability - Correct Answer️️ -behavior may occur again Frequency - Correct Answer️️ -Measure of how many times a behavior occurs Rate - Correct Answer️️ -Number of responses/time *Restrictive operants place ceiling on fluency Whole Interval Recording - Correct Answer️️ -Used to increase behaviors When the behavior occurs during the entire interval, it is marked Partial Interval Recording - Correct Answer️️ -Used to decrease behaviors When the behavior occurs at all during the interval it is marked