Three basic principales of ABA : reinforcement, punishment, and extinction.
Three levels of scientific understanding : Description, Predictions, and Control
Highest level of scientific understanding is Control(aka causation) : Experimental Control is the only way to establish causation; that is, to determine that one event caused the other event to occur. (Functional analysis)
Prediction is to Correlation; Control is to causation(ABC data analysis)
A correlation exists when two events consistently occur at the same time; based on this relationship, one can make the prediction that one event will probably occur based on the presence of the other event
Applied #sociallySignifiant behavior change
- Client's behavior change has improved their quaility of life because his peers now behave more positively with and toward client.
Behavior
- identify objective, observable, and measureable target behaviors related to the client's problem.
- ex, a client comes to you seeking help for depression. you begin asking them about how they feel.-> violation of Behavior
Analytical
- By establishing a functional relation between her intervention(independent variable) and the measurable change the targented behavior(dependent variable) in her client's behavior.
- BCBA develeps an interventions and bu manipulation the variables BCBA is able to prove that interventions is directly responsible fore lowering client's severe SIB.
Conceptually Systematic
- when they relate to, or are derived from, the basic principle
- all procedures used should tie back to the basic principles of ABA
- BCBA implements a program using positive reinforcement to increase client's on task behavior. it realtes to one of the basic principles of behavior.
Generality
- the client was able to generalize the skill across multiple settings.
- Generality emcompasses subjects, setting, and behaviors.
- BCBA should make a plan for generalization by implementing the intervention in all relevant settings.
Technological #operationalDefined
- to procedures being identified and described with sufficient clarity and detail for accurate implementation and replication
- writing an intervention with enough detail so that a trained reader can replicate it effectively describes.
- if BI takes data wrong because they cannot understand the program-> violation of technological
Effective #clinicallySignificant #degree
- BCBA shows client's parents a graph that demonstrates intervention has decreased her client's SIB by 85%