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| Applied behavior analysis |
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| The use of behavior principles to solve practical problems |
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| Everything an organism does including private and covert actions like thinking and feeling |
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| A comprehensive natural science approach to studying the behavior of organisms |
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| People who are researchers or practitioners of behavior analysis. |
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| The integration of the science of behavior with neuroscience |
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| Behavior is due to an interaction between genetic influence and environmental experience |
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| a learned relationship between a stimulus that reliably elicits a response that results from a contingency between that stimulus and one that already reliably elicits a response |
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| When an organism learns new ways of behaving in reaction to environmental changes |
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| dependancy between events; "if-then" relationship between events |
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| association or covariation between events (that may or may not be contingent) |
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| The conditions, events, and stimuli arranged by other people that regulate human action |
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| Differential reinforcement |
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| When behaviors with certain characteristics are reinforced and others are not |
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| Immediately producing or resulting in the occurrence |
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| The idea that behaviors become stronger and weaker based on consequences; put forth by E.L. Thorndike |
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| The acquisition; maintenance; and change of an organism's behavior as a result of lifetime events |
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| The interrelationship of the endogenous opiate and dopamine systems |
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| Changes in the interconnections of neurons due to experience |
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| A behavior that operates on the environment to produce a change, effect, or consequence. |
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| A change in operant response as a function of consequences |
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| Behavior only accessible to the person doing it |
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| An increase in the rate of operant behavior as a function of its consequences. |
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| Explaining a phenomenon by pointing to remote events that make it likely |
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| A behavior that is reliably elicited by a stimulus; an unconditioned or conditioned response |
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| When a contingency between a stimulus that already reliably elicits a response and some other stimulus results in the other stimulus reliably eliciting some new response |
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| Experimental analysis that includes assumptions about how to study behavior, techniques, and practical implications |
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| Selection by consequences |
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| Applies at three levels: natural selection, selection by operant conditioning, and cultural selection |
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| The Experimental analysis of behavior |
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| Using experimentation to break down environment-behavior relations into principles of behavior |
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| The Principle of discrimination |
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| An organism will respond differently to different situations |
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| Term used by Thorndike to describe behavior in his puzzle-box experiments |
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| The unlearned relation between a biologically relevant stimulus and the behavior it elicits |
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