BEHABA-1: Koncepty a principy behaviorální analýzy
KAPITOLA 4 - CHAPTER 4
Aim of lessonIntroducing of basic issues about the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour and how functional relations are formalized and addressed through experimentation. At the heart of this will be a focus on language issues that often impede scientific enquiry.
Understanding of the relation between summary labels and explanatory fictions, mentalism, basic issues in measuring behaviour, task analysis, how to investigate behaviour using single-case designs, and an overview of BF Skinner’s work.
Examining of basic procedures in both Classical Conditioning (sometimes called Respondent Conditioning) and Operant Conditioning such as contingency and contiguity, schedules of reinforcement, behavioural contrast, and interactions between respondent and operant conditioning. A guiding framework is called the 3-term contingency. You will learn how to use this framework to address most of the issues covered in your Masters course. Within both Classical and Operant conditioning there are many applications that we will explore through the medium of video and some audio files. There will be a practical component for you to learn one of the most important skills a behaviour analysts needs in his/her repertoire, how to SHAPE behaviour. Exercises will challenge you to design simple interventions and how we might investigate them using single-case methodology. Stimulus and response classes will also be addressed.
You will learn about concept Stimulus Control and how to investigate it. Topics include stimulus classes, stimulus equivalence, concept formation, generalization and discrimination, mentalism, private events, and rule-governed behaviour. You will be introduced to some early work of Epstein and Skinner on the origins of novel behaviour.
DiscussionWho are you and why are you studying on this course?
About the context of ABA in the Czech Republic.
About the difficulties that people face when the practical benefits of ABA are not available to them.
ListeningListen to examples of research conducted with children diagnosed with autism.