Essential Learning
Begin by watching the essential video below from Psychcore’s Behavior Beast series on YouTube. This 5-minute video will help you revise the Attitudes of Science covered earlier in the course.
Optional Resources (Recommended for psychologists, teachers, and others familiar with behaviorism)
Optional Reading: Brown and Gillard’s article addresses common misconceptions about radical behaviourism and outlines its relationship to other scientific approaches to human behavior.
Read on ResearchGate
Read on the BPS website
Optional Viewing:
Want to understand how behavior analysts address private events like thoughts and feelings? Watch this introduction:
Thoughts, Feelings, Stress & Mindfulness ARE Part of Behavior Analysis (YouTube)
Conversation Exercise
Complete this exercise to reinforce what you’ve learned by chatting with FRED, our AI-powered chatbot. You’ll answer some questions and receive tailored feedback.
Click for instructions on accessing and using FRED
To start, click the conversation icon in the bottom right of your screen. Alternatively, you can open the chat interface directly here.
If you haven’t already, read our guide on getting the most from your learning conversations with FRED.
Reflection Exercise
Why we ask you to reflect
Reflecting on what you have learned, putting ideas into your own words and connecting them with examples, helps strengthen your understanding and recall. These exercises are designed to help you retain and use the information, both in your future work as an RBT and when preparing for the RBT exam. You are also learning how to reflect, so you do not need to have everything figured out straight away.
100–500 words · Any language · Your own thinking
We are interested in your engagement with the material, not your spelling or grammar. You may refer back to both videos and the lesson notes.
Using AI: support your thinking
You may use AI to brainstorm ideas or help express your thoughts more clearly, although we do not assess spelling, grammar or polished language. Your submitted reflection must still represent your own understanding, examples and thinking.
The most common reason learners do not pass the end-of-course reflection review is that they submit AI-generated answers that do not show their own personal reflection. A polished summary of the lesson does not tell us what you took from it, how you connected it with your experience, or what you are still trying to understand.
If you use AI, include a brief statement explaining how, such as:
“I used AI to help organise my ideas and improve my wording. The examples and reflections are my own.”
If you used it only to brainstorm, say that instead. This statement does not count towards your reflection’s word count.
Learning to look at behavior differently
Reflection means thinking about what you have learned, how it connects with an example, and what you would like to understand better. You do not need previous experience of ABA or working as an RBT.
After completing Lesson 1 and watching the essential Attitudes of Science video, write 100–500 words using these three steps:
1. What stood out to you?
Choose one idea from the lesson about behavior or how our experiences and surroundings influence it. Explain it in your own words. Did it introduce something new, change your thinking, or help you understand something you had noticed before?
2. Connect it with an everyday example.
Think of something you do yourself, or an everyday situation you have observed. Describe what happens and something about the situation that might influence it. Then choose one attitude of science from the essential video and explain how it could help you understand your example more carefully. You do not need to prove why the behavior happens. It is fine to recognise what you do not yet know.
3. Look ahead to becoming an RBT.
RBTs observe and record behavior and follow agreed procedures under supervision. How could the idea you have chosen help you approach that role? Finish with one question you still have or something you would like to learn more about.
- One idea that stood out to me was…
- An everyday example is…
- The attitude of science I chose was… This could help because…
- As a future RBT…
Once submitted, you will receive a copy of your reflection by email. Keep it as a revision resource.
When you are ready, submit your reflection below.
Email a copy of your completed reflection to connect@jigsawconnects.co.uk, including your name and “Module 1, Lesson 1”. We will add it to your course record.
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