Tasklist A

What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)?

• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a form of art therapy
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is when experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.

• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a type of cooking technique
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is tactics from principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior.

Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science.

• Understanding and predicting behavior, determining the causes of behavior, and applying this knowledge to improve the human condition
• Understanding the language of behavior, determining the color of behavior, and applying this knowledge to improve the human condition
• Studying the emotions of behavior, determining the location of behavior, and applying this knowledge to improve the human condition
• Analyzing the history of behavior, predicting the future of behavior, and controlling behavior

What is Description?

• A type of prescription medication.

• A detailed statement of historical events.

• A detailed statement of research.

• A detailed statement or explanation of something.

What is Prediction?

• Predicting what might happen in future scenarios.

• Forecasting future events based on current information or past data
• Reading someone's mind
• Guessing without any basis

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

What is Control?

• Control refers to the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events.
• Control refers to spontaneous change in people's behavior or the course of events.

• Control is a type of experiment in science.

• Control refers to the person or event responsible for their own behavior.

What are the Philosophical Assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis?

• Description, Prediction, and Control.

• Generality
  Effective
  Technological
  Applied
  Conceptually Systematic
  Analytic
  Behavioral

• Determinism, Empiricism, Experimentation, Replication, Parsimony, Philosophic Doubt
• (BEAP) Behaviorism, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Applied Behavior Analysis, Professional Practice Guided by the Science of ABA

What is Determinism?

• Philosophical concept that all events are determined by previous events and natural laws
• Belief that events are random and unpredictable
• Theory that events are influenced by supernatural forces
• Idea that events are controlled by individual free will

What is Empiricism?

• Belief that knowledge comes from intuition
• Idea that knowledge is obtained through faith
• Concept that all knowledge is inherited from ancestors
• Theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

What is Parsimony?

• The middle ground explanation that fits the data
• The most complex explanation that fits the data
• The explanation that is unrelated to the data
• The simplest explanation that fits the data

What is Pragmatism?

• A scientific idea that emphasizes systematic and logical explanations.

• A philosophical idea originating from Sigmund Freud.

• A a systematic form of grammar used when conducting research.

• A philosophical tradition that emphasizes practical consequences and real-world effects of beliefs, actions, and theories.