ABA Cooper Chapter 1 Questions with correct Answers
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applied behavior analysis - ANSWER-the application of the science of learning to socially significant human behavior
behaviorism - ANSWER-the philosophy of the science of behavior
determinism - ANSWER-a philosophical aspect of ABA that holds that behavior follows general rules and laws and do...
ABA Cooper Chapter 1 Questions with correct Answers
applied behavior analysis - ANSWER-the application of the science of learning to socially significant human behavior
behaviorism - ANSWER-the philosophy of the science of behavior
determinism - ANSWER-a philosophical aspect of ABA that holds that behavior follows general rules and laws and does not happen randomly
empiricism - ANSWER-the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest
experiment - ANSWER-a type of research activity that involves changing only one component of an individuals environment (IV) to see its effect on some specified behavior (DV)
experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) - ANSWER-a natural science approach to he study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by BF Skinner
explanatory fiction - ANSWER-a fictitious variable that often is simply another name for the observed behavior that contributes nothing to an understanding of the variables responsible for developing or maintaining the behavior. They are the key ingredient in a "circular way of viewing the cause and effect of a situation".
functional relation - ANSWER-exists when a well-controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (DV) can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (IV) and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors (CV).
hypothetical construct - ANSWER-a presumed but unobserved process or entity (e.g. Freud's id, ego, superego)
mentalism - ANSWER-an approach to explaining behavior that assumes that a mental, or "inner," dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension and that phenomena in this dimension either directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behaivor, if not all
methodological behaviorism - ANSWER-The version of behaviorism that accepts the contention that overt behavior should be psychology's subject matter but is willing to speculate about internal causes of behavior, such as various mental and physiological states
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