PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes -Mmhmm, Applied Behavior Analysis, Autism
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The term behaviour refers to anything a person does, typically because of internal or external events. Answering a question is a verbal response to an external event: a verbal question. Eating when you are hungry is a response to an internal event: feeling hungry. You think about a game you went too, this is a response but it is not measurable. Feeling happy / sad can cause physiological changes such as increased heart rate: since covert behaviours can only be felt internally by an individual it is hard to measure, thus overt behaviours are what we will study. What is not behaviour: we tend to focus on traits or characteristics because it is convenient and passes along a lot of information, this may be inconsistent, for example describing someone as smart may only apply to math. The information is also to vague / general: diagnosis is similar to traits, they are to general.
