In AppliedApplied means that the behaviors targeted for change in ABA are important and meaningful in everyday life, helping to improve the person’s quality of life or social functioning. Example A ... More BehaviorBehavior refers to any activity or action that living organisms engage in, which can be observed, measured, and analyzed. It encompasses all interactions an organism has with its environment, inc... More Analysis (ABA), reflexivity is a concept in derived relational responding, particularly within stimulus equivalenceStimulus Equivalence refers to a situation in which an individual demonstrates that different stimuli are related to each other in specific ways, without direct teaching for all relations. It involves... More. Reflexivity refers to a learner’s ability to match a stimulusStimulus is defined as any change in the environment or form of energy that affects an organism’s behavior or physiological state. Stimuli can be external or internal, and they can el... More to itself without any prior training. This means that the individual can identify that a given stimulus is identical to another instance of that same stimulus.
Example
If a child is presented with a picture of a cat (Stimulus A) and then is asked to select the matching picture from an array that includes other animals, and the child selects the same picture of the cat (Stimulus A), this demonstrates reflexivity. The child is matching the picture of the cat with an identical picture of the cat, showing that the relation “A = A” is understood.
Reflexivity is one of the three components of stimulus equivalence, along with symmetrySymmetry is a concept in derived relational responding, particularly in stimulus equivalence. Symmetry refers to the learner’s ability to reverse a trained relation between two stimuli. In other wor... More and transitivityTransitivity is a concept in derived relational responding and stimulus equivalence. Transitivity occurs when a learner demonstrates that if Stimulus A is related to Stimulus B, and Stimulus B is rela... More.