Field Notes: Week One
Since I am not positive on the best way of doing field notes, I have decided to explain what every point from the task list means and then go more in depth with some of them after the readings and my daily experience.
1. Explain and behave in accordance with the philosophical assumptions of behavior analysis (FK 01-FK 09):
FK01: Lawfulness of Behavior
Lawfulness of behavior, similar to determinism, states that events are related in systematic ways to other factors. In other words, events do not happen by accident. Doing this in an ABA standpoint would mean seeing that one behavior may be connected to another behavior and the event that happened was possibly influenced by something else.
FK02: Selectionism (phylogenic,
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In ABA this would be helpful in looking at what each behavior could be caused by and if it could be part of selectionism.
FK03: Determinism
Determinism, related to lawfulness of behavior, is the practice that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as a result of other events.
FK04: Empiricism
Empiricism is the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest. In psychology, it is viewed as a "blank state" view of mind. In an ABA standpoint, this would look like looking at every new behavior with a "blank state" view of mind. In other words, thinking that the behavior does not have a past cause can keep a professional's mind fresh.
FK05: Parsimony
This means the simplest explanation is normally the one that will account for the observed phenomena. Doing this in an ABA standpoint would mean trying to give an explanation that would make the most sense and account for the most behavior seen.
FK06: Pragmatism
Pragmatism is the view that the truth value of a theory is to be identified in its practical consequences. For an ABA standpoint, this could be seen as not teaching a child something that will not be useful in their life. If a child cannot even use the restroom without a lot of assistance, then teaching them how to do multiplication would not be
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All of these steps are closely associated and have made more and more steps towards helping behaviorism grow as a science. Respondent conditioning is most known for Ivan Pavlov and his study on dogs and clicker training. With associationism there was Edward Thorndike who studied cats and came up with the Law of Effect and the Law of Exercise. With behaviorism came John Watson who is famous for baby Albert. Watson studied fear and conditions on fear by conditioning Albert to being afraid of a white rat due to the loud noise he was conditioned to hearing when seeing the rat. Less well known was Jones who was able to desensitize a young boy of fear. This helped show that fear is a learned behavior and not something that we are born with. Finally, B. F. Skinner studied operant conditioning and focused on animals, mostly pigeons and rats. He was also able to compare the studied animal behavior to human behavior and see that the two are closely directed, and thus, was able to use some of the results on his animal experiments to help further human
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Moving forward, according to John Cowburn author of Free Will, Predestination and Determinism (2008), “determinism is the philosophical view is that all humans’ actions are predetermined and that every event an individual encounters can be explained.” (p. 144)” Thus, every event that has happened in one’s life, happens as a result of previous events.
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Behaviorism is a theory that states that humans and animals can be explained in terms of their behavior without reference to their thoughts and feelings. How a person behaves tells us about the person and thoughts and feelings are meaningless without outward expression. There are two kinds of behaviorism that I will discuss in this essay, Psychological Behaviorism and Logical Behaviorism.
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“Behavior theory consists of ideas about how human actions and emotions develop, are sustained, and are extinguished through principles of learning” (Walsh, 2010). Positive and negative reinforcement is used to help manipulate the behaviors of the individual. The theory has been used to help eliminate unwanted behaviors. In addition, behavior theory has been use primarily with children, and persons with developmental disabilities. According to Walsh (2010) behavior theory evolved in the 1960s from a field of philosophy to the field of science. Ivan Pavlov discovered classical conditioning, which plays a major role in behavioral theory. Classical conditioning is the process of learning through ones surroundings, conditioned, and unconditioned stimuli and response. B. F. Skinner discovered operant conditioning the process of learning to influence the future responses to the environment (Clark, 2004). The two concepts has been used throughout the behavior theory to help assist clients with unacceptable behaviors that is occurring. The combination of the two concepts has been a very helpful aspect to the behavior theory. Both concepts offer a different approach or solution to the behavior of the client.
Behaviorism is the point of view where learning and behavior are described and explained in terms of stimulus-response relationships. Behaviorists agree that an individual’s behaviors is a result of their interaction with the environment. Feedback, praise and rewards are all ways people can respond to becoming conditioned. The focus is on observable events instead of events that happen in one’s head. The belief that learning has not happened unless there is an observable change in behavior. “The earliest and most Ardent of behaviourists was Watson (1931; Medcof and Roth, 1991; Hill 1997). His fundamental conclusion from many experimental observations of animal and childhood learning was that stimulus-response (S-R) connections are more likely to be established the more frequently or recently an S-R bond occurs. A child solving a number problem might have to make many unsuccessful trials before arriving at the correct solution” (Childs, 2004).