ABA and SNT: The Language of Renewal

Purpose

The purpose of an integrative worldview of Scientific Narrative Technology (SNT) and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is to address behavioral, developmental, relational and educational challenges in child development and family, simultaneously.

Key points

• SNT analyzes two levels of experience: a place of objects as "behavior" and a place as "field of experience" (social-brain-body relationship). 

• SNT is the complete behavioral equation. The complete behavioral equation includes to the measurement of "selection". The analytic framework of selective behavior is a lens of mechanical causality (A happens, B happens, and then C happens). This is proportional understanding as top-down behavior analysis. The complete behavioral equation also includes the measurement of "variation". This analytic framework of behavior patterns is a map or narrative. As the individual moves from a current state, Point A, to a desire state, Point B, he or she will experience opponent processing within behavior patterns (character structures). This is participatory understanding as bottom-up behavior analysis. 

• The experiential change from current state, point A, to desire state, point B, is relationship-based learning. All human behavior is motivated and desire oriented. 

• Desires are not random. Desires are intrinsic values that manifest in the environment as behavior patterns to an appetitive state (Darwinian strategy). These behavior patterns have opponent processing as enabling and selecting behavior patterns.

• Enabling behaviors are bottom-up, reflexive behaviors to deal with self-propagation. It's a resiliency strategy.

• Selecting behaviors are top-down, voluntary behaviors to deal with self-maintenance. It's an efficiency strategy.

Why ABA and SNT to study the Big 5 Character Structures of child development?

The big 5 trait is one of the most well-established and widely used models for assessing behavioral constructs. Through SNT, the study of traits become the study of states. The study of ABA tools are concrete strategies to improve developmental lags within the 5-character structures. 

1. Empirical basis and factor analysis- allows for the analysis of clusters of behaviors and characteristics that tend to co-occur as behavior patterns

2. Cross-culturally and longitudinal stability- one of the key indicators of the validity of the Big 5 is it's cross culturally applicable 

3. Predictive power- the big 5 can reliably predict a wide range of outcomes across different domains such as interpersonal relationships and behavioral outcomes

4. Independence of states- The big 5 are largely independent of one another. Independence enhances the reliability and precision of the model, allowing for greater understanding of individual differences.

5. Convergence with other models- deeply rooted in brain structure and behavioral function. An integration creates a comprehensive understanding of how child behavior patterns arise, how they are stable, and how they influence behaviors across different contexts. 

Pragmatism: Big 5 character structure through SNT

The big-5 character structures of child development identify how children integrate all of their separate abilities: enabling behaviors, selecting behaviors, desires, and states to relate to the social environment in a purposeful and meaningful manner. These abilities impact behavior intervention, emotionality, language, sensory modulation, ideation, spatial, and motor planning skills from a current state (point A) to desired state (point B). Mastering all of these critical areas depends on the identification of the 5-character structures and the fractal model of Top-down and Bottom-up Behavior analysis. 

The BCBA Map: Bridging the Gap

The BCBA Map is the path towards intelligibility. There are behavior patterns that come together to support socially significant behavior, children, family, science and society as a whole. This analysis is how the natural science of behavior achieves true progress in an information age.  

 Discover the core, process and content with the BCBA Map.