B-01 part 1

Stimuli

Affect the receptor systems of an organism, don't necessarily influence behavior

Generally a response

Is a single instance of a behavior

Behavior can be exhibited by

Living single celled and complex organisms

Definitions of behavior

Sometimes excludes covert behavior, excludes states such as happy or sad, often includes only measurable and detectable behavior

A student has been reading a textbook on their computer for 20 minutes one evening. They are wearing headphones and listening to music because their dorm room is on a noisy corridor. A favorite song starts to play and their attention shifts from reading the book to thinking about summer when they first heard the song. What was the stimulus change associated with their change in behavior?

Their favorite song beginning

Lifting one's finger

affects the environment

Behavior

involves movement of muscles and glands

Overt behavior

is measureable

The definition of overt behavior includes

movement of some part of the organism, measurable change in environment, displacement of space through time

Behavior can be classified as

overt vs covert, operant vs responding, and by response class

From a behavior analytic perspective, the environment consists of

stimulus conditions or events

A man has been driving on a freeway with his young daughter, who is riding in her car seat. Twenty minutes into the ride he exits the freeway, starts a movie for his daughter, and hands her a juice box. Ten minutes later the road becomes winding and hilly and his daughter spits up. What was the stimulus change most likely associated with child spitting up?

the changing road terrain

Stimulus events may be described by

where they occur temporally relative to the target behavior