Chapter 1: What is Behavior Analysis and how is it a science of behavior? What a

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Chapter 1: What is Behavior Analysis and how is it a science of behavior? What are the two types of conditioning What is meant by "selection by consequences?" What are immediate versus remote causation? Be able to identify in context What is a contingency? What is meant by "the capacity for learning is inherited?" Make sure to read the section Focus On: B.F. Skinner Make sure to review Thorndike's contribution to the history of modern day Behavior Analysis (I did not include him in my discussion in class as I did with the others) What is the Law of Effect? Be able to explain Thorndike's puzzle box experiments What was Skinner's treatment of the "Private World? Feelings? Thinking? Causes of behavior? Chapter 2: What is meant by "response class and "stimulus class?"

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Applied Behvaiour Analysis is a scientific field which is concerned with applying techniques based upon the principles of learning to change behavior of social significance. As a scientific field, it emphasises on the development of a theoretical programme to change behavior by first assessing the functional relationship between a targeted behavior and the environment. Finally, the approach moves towards developing socially acceptable alternatives for maladaptive behaviours such as addiction, aggressiveness in children, etc.

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