3 characteristics of stimulus classes:
Formal
Temporal
Functional
Antecedent stimulus:
Environmental event that proceeds a response
Consequence stimulus:
Environmental event that follows a response
Evoke
Increases momentary probability of a response
Evocative effects
What do effects of antecedents do?
Increase momentary probability of a response
Abate:
Decreases the momentary probability of a response
Abative effect
What do effects of antecedents do
Decrease the momentary probability of a response
Latency
The amount of time between antecedent stimulus and response
Consequence effect:
Strengthening
Increases future probability of a behavior
Consequence effect
Weakening
Decreases the future probability of a behavior
Determinism
Phenomenons are lawful and occur in a systematic way
Determinants of behavior
Biological and environmental factors
Selection: repeated cycles of:
Variation, interaction and differential replication
Selection: variation and interaction with the environment results in:
Differential replication
Selectionism
Generic and behavioral diversity is a result of selection
Contingency
Dependent relationship between events
Functional relation is a mathematical:
Relations between IV and DV
Parsimony
Rule out simple explanations before evaluating complex ones
Environmental explanations describe:
Behavior as a function of current environment and past experience
Explanatory fictions describe behavior as cause by:
Hypothetical construct within individual or future events
IV stands for:
Independent variable
DV stands for:
Dependent variable
Main variables of behavior analysis:
IV and DV
IV manipulated in behavior analysis:
Stimulus class
