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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Behavior analysis is a discipline that is concerned with applying techniques based upon the principles of learning in order to change behavior of social significance. It can be regarded as a scientific discipline as the field is backed by thousands of studies to identify the laws of behavior or the predictable ways in which behavior is learned and how it changes over time. From this, researchers have been able to develop numerous techniques and treatment approaches for analyzing and changing behavior.
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