1. Summer Behavior Institute Intensive Focus on Behavioral Theory
Day 1
Brandi Simonsen, Adam Feinberg,
Jen Freeman, & Susannah Everett

2. Overview

3. Foundational Elements Practice
Purpose: to build fluency with key vocabulary and behavioral concepts that we will use throughout the week
Step 1: Go to and create a free account
Step 2: Create online flash cards of key vocabulary and definitions
Step 3: Work with a peer to double check your definitions
Step 5: Practice your new vocabulary
Step 5: Add to your set of flashcards throughout the week

4. Step 1: Create online flashcards
Go to
Create a free account and sign in

5. Step 2 Create a New Study Set
Add Vocabulary and Definitions to your set
Push Create (after your material is entered)

6. Step 3: Check your work with a peer
Share your set with a peer (via or manually) and review definitions for accuracy and completeness

7. Step 4: Practice!
Share your set with a peer (via or manually) and review definitions for accuracy and completeness

8. Step 5: Add to your set throughout the week!
Share your set with a peer (via or manually) and review definitions for accuracy and completeness

9. Suggested Critical Vocabulary
Respondent Behaviors
Law of Effect
Law of Exercise
Operant Behaviors
Independent Variables
Dependent Variables
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Positive Behavior Supports (PBS)
Setting Event
Antecedent
Discriminative Stimulus
S-Delta
Sd Minus
Behavior
Consequence
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
Extinction
Function of Behavior

10. Suggested Advanced Vocabulary
Science
3 Purposes of Science
Description
Prediction
Control
6 main Attitudes of science
Determinism
Empiricism
Experimentalism
Replication
Parsimony
Philosophic Doubt
Positivism
Functionalism
Evolution and Animal Psychology
External Condition
Inner Condition
ABA Principals
Applied
Behavioral
Analytic
Technological
Conceptual Systems
Effective
Generality
Motivating operations
Establishing operations
Abolishing operations