Key principles
Applied Analytic Behavioural Conceptually systematic Effective Generalisable Technological
Assumptions
o Philosophic doubt (tentative) o Parsimony (simplicity) o Empiricism (accurate and reliable observations used to explain or manipulate behaviour) o Explanatory fiction (circular arguments) o Determinism (everything is predetermined) o Scientific manipulation (variables can be manipulated)
Explaining behaviour
o Philosophical (theoretical)
o Practice (improves lives)
o Basic research (experiments to test the theory)
o Applied research (improve socially significant behaviours)
Child superstitions
o 4-6-year olds were put in a room with a robot clown that dispensed marbles on a fixed time schedule. Most developed dominant superstitious behaviour e.g. grimacing, kissing clown, hip swinging, giggling, puckering lips, Produced Scalloped FI pattern of responding
Factors affectingaa matching
o Magnitude o Quality o Delay o Response effect o Punishment
Rate of reinforcement
o FR - High / break and run
o FI - Slow - moderate / scalloped
o VI - Slow - moderate
o VR - very high
ABA and eab
- EAB: describe behaviour and identify contingencies
* ABA: Use tactics to improve socially significant behaviour/ track changes - social validity
Functional analysis
o Demand condition
o Attention condition
o Alone condition
o Control
Applyinv q schedule
Measure the behaviour and the natural reinforcement schedule
- check if any current schedules work
- Define behavioural goal and make a plan to reach it
- fade the behaviour slowly so it is naturally maintained
- if the schedule has social validity people in the natural environment will continue the schedule
- FR/VR for discrete responses, VI/FI for continuous schedules
