SPE 526 MODULE 1 GUIDED NOTES
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the key attribute of the definition of response class? ✅✅ANSW--a group of responses
that have the same functional effect on the environment
-refers to the group of responses that have the same function, regardless of the
form
-EX. verbally request, cry, point→ get food
What is response topography? ✅✅ANSW--physical shape or form (hand claps)
-same form may produce different effects, and different forms may produce the
same effects
-EX. cry→ get food, or removal of instruction
Where does behavior occur? ✅✅ANSW--in an environment
-environment and stimuli must be independent of behavior
-it must be a physical environment in which the organism or organism's effector
exist
-external environment (ex. a room a person walks into)
-internal environment (ex. someone's brain where neurons are firing)
What are the three key attributes that define stimulus? ✅✅ANSW--1 exists in the environment
-2 an energy change (bc a static change that is always there will not be detected
by an organism--aka will not affect behavior...ex. a dream)
-3 detectable by an organism (ex. red light turn green, but you were
distracted--that change did not serve as a stimulus to you bc you did not see it)
-outside of body (sunset)
-inside of body (headache)
Is the event an energy change? Can it be detected by the organism? Is it in a physical and natural
environment?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the key attribute of the definition of response class? ✅✅ANSW--a group of responses
that have the same functional effect on the environment
-refers to the group of responses that have the same function, regardless of the
form
-EX. verbally request, cry, point→ get food
What is response topography? ✅✅ANSW--physical shape or form (hand claps)
-same form may produce different effects, and different forms may produce the
same effects
-EX. cry→ get food, or removal of instruction
Where does behavior occur? ✅✅ANSW--in an environment
-environment and stimuli must be independent of behavior
-it must be a physical environment in which the organism or organism's effector
exist
-external environment (ex. a room a person walks into)
-internal environment (ex. someone's brain where neurons are firing)
What are the three key attributes that define stimulus? ✅✅ANSW--1 exists in the environment
-2 an energy change (bc a static change that is always there will not be detected
by an organism--aka will not affect behavior...ex. a dream)
-3 detectable by an organism (ex. red light turn green, but you were
distracted--that change did not serve as a stimulus to you bc you did not see it)
-outside of body (sunset)
-inside of body (headache)
Is the event an energy change? Can it be detected by the organism? Is it in a physical and natural
environment?
