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| applied behavior analysis |
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| 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 respondible for the improvement in behavior |
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| the philosophy of the science of behavior |
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| the assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a will-nilly, accidental fashion |
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| the objective observation of the phenomena of interest |
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| a carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phonomenon of interest under two or more different conditions |
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| experimental analysis of behavior |
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| a natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right |
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| a fictitious or 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 |
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| when specific manipulations of one event (IV) produce a reliable change in another event (DV), and that change is unlikely to have been the result of confounding variables |
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| a presumed but unobserved process or entity |
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| 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 mediate behavior |
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| methodological behaviorism |
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| a philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science |
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| the practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations before considering more complex or abstract explanations |
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| an attitude that the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned |
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| a form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including private events, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person and the species |
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| repeating conditions within an experiment to determine reliability and increase internal validity, or repeating whole experiments to determine the generality of findings |
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| a systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena (as evidenced by description, predictiona nd control) that relies on determinism as its primary rule, experimentation as its basic strategy, replication as a requirement for believability, parsimony as a value, and philosophic doube as its guiding conscience |
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| the 3 levels of scientific understanding |
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| description, prediction, control |
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determinism
empiricism
experimentation
replication
parsimony
philosophic doubt |
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| 7 characteristics of applied behavior analysis |
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applied
behavioral
analytic
technological
conceptually systematic
effective
generality |
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