Generality
A dimension of ABA, which explains that any behavior change should persist across time, settings, behaviors, and people that differ from the original intervention conditions.
Task List Reference: A-5
Describe and define the dimensions of applied behavior analysis (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968).
Effective
A dimension of ABA, which explains that ABA procedures should result in a practical, socially significant improvement in a person’s life.
Hypothetical construct
Presumed, but unobserved processes and subjective ideas that, in mentalism, are used to explain behavior and/or its causes.
Explanatory fiction
A mentalistic and mythical explanation for behavior that attributes unobservable processes to the occurrence of the behavior.
Circular reasoning
A mentalistic process in which the cause and effect of behavior are both inferred from the same information.