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Acronym for Applied Behavior Analysis

Events proceeding the behavior.

A scientific approach to changing behaviors that employ scientifically established principles of learning to bring about these changes. There are four important characteristics of ABA:

1. The behaviors targeted for change are behaviors that can have real-life applications for the person we are working with.
2. We are working with real, observable, measurable behaviors rather than some abstract diagnosis.
3. The procedures used in ABA are based on scientifically based on scientifically established principles of learning.
4. Decisions in ABA are made based on objective data that is collected to help understand what effect, if any, the interventions being used are actually having on the behavior.

Any external or internal observable and measurable act of an organism.

A philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do—including acting, thinking and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors. The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind. Behaviorism comprises the position that all theories should have observational correlates but that there are no philosophical differences between publicly observable processes (such as actions) and privately observable processes (such as thinking and feeling). Applied Behavior Analysis is the scientific application of Behaviorism.

Events which follow the behavior.

Fundamental interactions between Antecedents, Behaviors, and Consequences. It is a three-part concept:

1. An occasion upon which Behavior occurs
2. The Behavior itself
3. The Consequences of the Behavior