About Behavior Analysis Tutorial

This instruction takes about 40 to 60 hours of interactive on-line tutorial time.  

The following concepts are covered in the initial sets of this program:

A science of behavior

The experimental analysis of behavior

Behavior analysis

Applied behavior analysis

Behavior

Science

Causation

Effects

Functional relationships

Knowledge

Scientific behaviors

Control

analysis

environment

explanatory fictions

Natural science and the philosophy of determinism

Order

Causation

Process

Determinism

Predeterminism

Fatalism

Natural science

social science

Life science

Physical science

Biological science.

Knowledge

Empiricism

Experience

Knowing

Understanding

Subjectivity

Objectivity

Natural selection

Empiricism

Experimentation

theory

Internal events and external events

Parsimony

Causation

Pragmatism

The role of an initiating mind

The philosophy of science called behaviorism.

  With respect to the following headings, the remaining sets in this program establish the ability to:

Respondent Conditioning Principles

Identify the following terms: stimulus, response, neutral stimulus, reflex, elicit, latency, magnitude, intensity, threshold.

Identify the temporal relation between the stimulus and response.

Identify the following terms: conditioning, extinction, conditioned and unconditioned stimulus, conditioned and unconditioned response.

Determine where conditioning or extinction has taken place.

Identify the following terms: extinction, latency, paired, unconditioned and conditioned stimulus, unconditioned and conditioned response, Pavlov.

Recognize Pavlov and the process he discovered.

Describe the functional relationships discovered by Pavlov.

Evaluate whether a neutral stimulus is able to elicit a response alone.

Identify the following terms: extinction, conditioning, latency, magnitude.

Explain how conditioning and extinction affects latency and magnitude.

Identify the following key terms: elicit, Pavlov, extinction, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response.

Analyze a functional relationship and determine whether conditioning or extinction has or has not taken place.

Identify the following terms: striated muscles, smooth muscles, glands, elicit, reflexes.

Differentiate between striated muscles, smooth muscles, and glands.

Identify which muscles and glands are involved in certain actions.

Operant Conditioning

Identify the following terms: operant, reinforcement, reinforce, deprived, elicit, reflex, probability.

Identify the temporal relation between behavior and reinforcement.

State how to increase the probability of operant behavior.

Discriminate between operant and respondent (reflexive) behavior.

Identify the following terms:  rate, reinforcer, reinforcement, emit, elicit, operant, respondent, conditioned, extinction, forgetting.

Differentiate between operant and respondent behavior.

Identify the temporal order between responses and reinforcement.

Discriminate between a reinforcer and reinforcement.

Differentiate between forgetting and extinction.

Identify the following terms:  positive and negative reinforcers, incompatible responses, extinction.

Differentiate between positive and negative reinforcement

Identify when responses are incompatible.

Evaluate whether the rate of a response will increase or decrease depending on relevant variables.

Identify the following terms:  extinguish, reinforce, incompatible, emit, elicit, forgetting, rate, probability, response.

Differentiate between operant and respondent

Identify when responses are incompatible.

Evaluate whether the rate of a response will increase or decrease depending on relevant variables.

Identify the following terms: conditioned reinforcer, unconditioned reinforcer, primary reinforcer, secondary reinforcer, deprivation, generalized reinforcer.

Differentiate between conditioned and unconditioned reinforcers.

Differentiate between primary and secondary reinforcers.

Identify the conditions necessary for conditioned reinforcers to be effective.

Recognize conditions that enable conditioned reinforcers to become generalized reinforcers.

Identify the following terms:  rate, operant, cumulative record, slope, positive acceleration, negative acceleration, vertical/horizontal distance.

Identify the basic dimension of operant behavior.

Describe how the steepness of the cumulative record slope relates to rate of behavior.

Interpret a cumulative record.

Identify the following terms: adaptation, extinction, conditioned reinforcer, learning curve, respondent, operant.

Differentiate between adaptation and extinction.

Explain the process of adaptation.

Analyze the process of learning in relation to a learning curve.

Identify the following terms: accidental contingencies, superstitious behavior.

Differentiate between accidental and deliberate contingencies.

Identify superstitious behaviors.

Identify the following terms: differential reinforcement, successive approximations, shaping, common elements.

Explain the procedure of differential reinforcement.

Analyze the related parts of the shaping process.

Identify the following terms: common elements, shaping, differential reinforcement.

Explain the process of differential reinforcement.

Identify the following terms:  intermittent reinforcement, continuous reinforcement, ratio schedule, fixed-interval schedule.

Differentiate intermittent and continuous reinforcement.

Explain how operants are maintained under different schedules of reinforcement.

Identify the following terms: motivation, intermittent, continuous, extinction, fixed, variable, interval, ratio, and resistance.

Differentiate between fixed and ratio schedules.

Differentiate between variable and interval schedules

Evaluate a schedule's resistance to extinction.

Identify the following terms: continuous, intermittent, fixed, variable, ratio, interval, resistance, extinction.

Review of schedules of reinforcement.

Identify the following terms: discriminative stimulus, S^D, s-delta, S^{^}, stimulus control, extinction.

Identify when a stimulus is an S^D or an S^{^}.

Explain how an organism develops a discrimination.

Identify the following terms: stimulus control, multiple schedule, discrimination.

Identify the necessary conditions to develop an operant discrimination.

Identify whether or not a response is under stimulus control.

Identify the following terms: discriminative stimulus (S^D), stimulus generalization, stimulus generalization gradient, abstraction.

Differentiate between discrimination and generalization.

Identify the following terms:  S^D, chain of behavior, unit of operant behavior.

Analyze the operant unit of behavior.

Explain how a chain of behavior develops.

Identify the following terms:  continuous repertoire, differential reinforcement, successive approximations, abstraction.

Determine whether a response is within a continuous repertoire.

Describe what role successive approximations play in differentially reinforcing a response.

Identify the following terms:  continuous repertoire, stimulus field, response topography, discrete repertoire.

Determine if a stimulus is within a defined stimulus field.

Differentiate between discrete and continuous repertoires.

Identify the following terms: respondent, operant, deprivation, probability, satiation, class of responses.

Differentiate between satiation and deprivation.

Identify operations that increase and decrease probabilities of classes of behavior.

Identify the following terms: chain, deprivation, satiation, generalized reinforcer.

Explain the operations of deprivation and satiation with conditioned generalized reinforcers.

Identify the following terms: slope, satiation, cycles.

Analyze cyclic changes in cumulative records.

Evaluate the effects of deprivation and satiation on certain behaviors.

Identify the following terms: intermittent reinforcement, stimulus control, deprivation, generalization, continuous repertoire, S^D, chain, cycles, topographies, abstraction, operant discrimination.

Review of concepts of intermittent reinforcement, stimulus control, and deprivation.

Differentiate between discrimination and generalization.

Identify the following terms:  activation syndrome.

Identify properties of the activation syndrome.

Identify the following terms:  deprivation, class of responses, incompatible, predisposed, operant, negative reinforcement, adaptation, activation syndrome, conditioning.

Differentiate between positive and negative reinforcement.

Identify emotions by the display of operant behavior.

Identify the following terms:  escape, avoidance, negative reinforcer, aversive stimulus, extinguish, conditioned, unconditioned.

Differentiate between escape and avoidance.

Describe reasons for escape and avoidance behavior.

Identify the following terms:  escape, avoidance, negative reinforcement, emotion, anxiety.

Analyze the relationship between negative reinforcement, avoidance, and escape.

Identify emotional by-products produced by escape and avoidance.

Identify the following terms: anxiety, deprivation, aversive stimulus, avoidance, escape.

Identify variables responsible for anxiety.

Determine how aversive stimuli affect response rates.

Identify the following terms: anxiety, adaptation.

Determine how reinforced behavior is affected by anxiety.

Identify the following terms: anxiety, extinction, adaptation, escape, extinction.

Describe how organisms respond to aversive stimuli and anxiety.

Identify the following terms: punishment, reinforcement.

Examine the effects of punishment.

Evaluate punishment's effectiveness.

Differentiate between reinforcement and punishment.

Identify the following terms:  punishment, extinction.

Analyze how accompanying extinction contingencies can alter the effect of the punishment procedure.

Identify the following terms:  punishment, aversive stimulation, extinction, repression.

Identify the by-products of punishment.

Evaluate the use of punishment.

Identify the following terms:  punishment.

Evaluate the effects of punishment on different rates of responding.

Identify the following terms: punishment, extinction, activation syndrome, S^D, S^{^}, escape, avoidance.

Identify concepts related to aversive control and to the emotional by-products of aversive control.

Identify the following terms: prediction, control, interpretation, science,   independent variable, dependent variable, functional relation.

Identify the goals of a science of behavior.

Explain the processes involved in scientific manipulation.

Identify the following terms: multiple effects, isolate.

Interpret the multiple effects of a complex behavior pattern.

Identify the following terms: multiple causes, multiple effects, incompatible, algebraic summation.

Identify the effects of combining multiple contingencies.

Identify the following term: discrimination.

Identify the process of discrimination training.

Identify the following terms: survival value, operant, respondent, voluntary, involuntary.

Analyze the components of self-control.

Identify concepts and relations of self-control.

Identify the following terms: self-control, respondent, operant, emotional.

Describe various techniques of self-control.

Identify conditions which evoke and reinforce techniques.

Identify the following terms: self-knowledge, aversive stimuli, punished behavior, repression, incompatible behavior.

Specify and explain the concept of self-knowledge.

Identify the following terms: rationalization, punishment, lying.

Differentiate between rationalization and lying.

Explain the concept rationalization.

Identify the following terms: positive and negative reinforcement, habit, withdrawal symptoms, escape.

Identify possible variables responsible for addiction.

Explain how addiction affects organisms.

Identify the following terms: counter-aggression, activation syndrome, reaction formation.

Describe the principles of behavior that relate to the reaction formation.

Identify the following terms: non-punishing audience, stimulus generalization, repression, transference.

Identify concepts of repression and transference.

Identify the following terms: independent and dependent variable, algebraic summation, oscillation, repression, rationalization.