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7701 Unit 1
ABA definitions
Term | Definition |
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Radical Behaviorlism | A thoroughgoing form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior including private events such as thoughts and feelings in terms of controlling variables in the history of the people species |
The process by which when a conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus gradually ceases to elict the conditioned response | |
A stimulus change that decreases the fredquency of any behavior that immediately precded it, irrespective of the organism's learning history with the stimulus | |
Principle of behavior | A statement describing a functional relation between behavior and one or more if its controlling variables with generality across organisma species setting, behavior, and time |
Refers to dependent and or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables | |
reinforcement punishment WRONG | A stimulus or event that, when presented contingent on the occurrence of a behavior, decrease the future problability of the behavior |
phylogeny Parsimony Wrong | The history of the development of an individual during its lifetime |
respondent conditioning Operant conditioning Wrong | A stimulus response relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior it elicits |
neutral stimulus | A neutral change that does not elicit respondent behavior |