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SAFMEDS 1
PSY613
Term | Definition |
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Antecedent | A stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest. |
Behavior | The activity of living organism |
Consequence | A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest. |
Determinism | The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in an accidental fashion. |
Functional relation | A relation present when the value of one variable lawfully affects the value of another variable. |
Generality | ABA produces behavior change that lasts over time, settings, situations, and individuals |
Ontogeny | The history of the development of an individual organism during its lifetime. |
Phylogeny | The history of the natural evolution of the species. |
Selection by Consequences | all forms of operant behavior are selected and maintained by their consequences during an individual’s lifetime |
Contingency | Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between events |
Environment | The total constellation of stimuli which can affect behavior |
History of reinforcement | An inclusive term referring to a person’s learning experiences and past conditioning |
Repertoire | All of the behaviors a person can do; a set of behaviors relevant to a particular setting or task. |
Response | A single instance or occurrence of a specific class or type of behavior. |
Response class | A group of responses that share formal or functional properties |
Stimulus | An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells |
Stimulus class | A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions. |
Topography | The physical form or shape of a behavior. |