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Behv 5610 final reviewValidity - ANS-the extent to which a claim is truthful and supported by science
Phylogeny - ANS-Evolutionary history sclection in a species
Pseudoscience - ANS-pratice of claims that are unsupported by science
Inductive - ANS-scientific method to obtain objective data by first/prior developing
theories/functional relations.
Deductive - ANS-methods which purport theories priori then test against evidence
Epistemology - ANS-approach to study of scientific knowledge and theory
Dualism - ANS-position that there are multiple worlds apart from the physical
Description - ANS-collecting and quantifying tghen organizing knowledge to allow for
classification
Science - ANS-the use of description, prediction, and control reliance on determinism,
empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, and philosophic doubt. produces
artifacts in evidence, enables others to know w/out having to go through it.
Overt - ANS-observed by others
Skepticism - ANS-pratice using objective evidence to evaluate a claim, carefully
considering claims
Functional Relations - ANS-verbal statement that describes the occourance of
phenomena under a controlled variable. One event can produce another through
manipulation. Manipulation in one event causes a change that is unlikley the result of
other factors.
Respondent - ANS-behavior that is coorelated with eliciting stimuli
Coorelation - ANS-When two events -occour
, Operant - ANS-behavior in which the cause is selection by consequence, often
rule-governed or contingency shaped.
locus of control - ANS-location of influental casues of behavior
Private Events - ANS-Real events characterized by limited access to others. Events
taking place inside the skin.
Thoughts & Feelings.
confounding variable - ANS-variable that cannot be eliminated as affecting the
dependent variable because it was not controlled. an uncontrolled variable that may
have affected the DV.
Replication - ANS-repeating experimentation to determine reliability. repeated
executions of an experement using the same methods.
independent variable - ANS-variable that is applied/manipulated, aka treatment variable.
manipulated to determine effect on dependent variable.
Materialism - ANS-belif that the world is made of only physcial things
dependent variable - ANS-The measurable effect, outcome, or response in which the
research is interested.
Lawfulness - ANS-assumption of determinism; the universe is lawful and orderly
Control - ANS-in depth understanding of subject matter which allows the sci. to predict
and manipulate.
prediction - ANS-using existing knowledge to suggest a possible relation between two
events with high probability they will co-occour.
Ontogeny - ANS-History of selection in a single organisims lifetime
Mentalism - ANS-an approach that leads us to search inside the organism for
explanations of behavior. uses internal events to explain behavior. mind-body dualism
approach.
contingency - ANS-class of operant behavior that a0follows the principle of
consequences b)goes under stimulus control in 3 term contingency.
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