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BEHV 5610 UNTprediction - ANS-using existing knowledge from observation to suggest that two events
are related and that there is a high probability that they will co-occur
control - ANS-in depth understanding of the subject matter which allows the scientist to
predict and manipulate the occurrence or non-occurrence of some event
description - ANS-collecting, quantifying and organizing knowledge about some
observed events to allow for classification and comparison to other knowledge
science - ANS-the use of description, prediction, and control and reliance on
determinism, empiricism, replication, parsimony, and philosophic doubt to understand
natural phenomena
socially important behaviors - ANS-behaviors that enhance and improve people's lives
correlation - ANS-when two events are observed to co-occur
functional relation - ANS-a verbal statement that describes the occurrence of the
phenomena under study as a function of the operation of one or more specified and
controlled variables in the experiment in which a specific change in one event can be
produced by manipulating another event and that change in the dependent variable was
unlikely the result of other factors
independent variable - ANS-the variable that is applied by the researcher, sometimes
called the intervention or treatment variable, that is manipulated to determine its effect
on the dependent variable
dependent variable - ANS-the variable of interest that is measured to determine what
effect the independent variable during an experiment
confounding variable - ANS-a variable that cannot be eliminated as affecting the
dependent variable because it was not controlled for
pseudoscience - ANS-the practice of making claims that are often unfalsifiable and
always contradicted or unsupported by scientific evidence
,skepticism - ANS-the practice of using objective evidence to evaluate whether or not a
claim is accurate
validity - ANS-the extent to which some claim is truthful or scientifically supported
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) - ANS-the natural science that is the
foundation of all behavior analytic research and practice
replication - ANS-the repeating of experiments and conditions within experiments which
allows scientists to determine the reliability and usefulness of their findings
deductive reasoning - ANS-methods which purport theories a priori and then test them
against empirical evidence
inductive reasoning - ANS-scientific methods which work to obtain objective data prior
to developing theories or suggesting possible functional relations or principles
epistemology - ANS-approach to scientific study and theory
lawful/lawfulness - ANS-adherence to the assumption of determinism which suggests
that all behavior is orderly
mentalism - ANS-the approach that leads us to search inside the organism for
explanations for behavior
Locus of control - ANS-the location of those influential and initiating causes of behavior
phylogeny - ANS-history which selects for inherited behaviors
ontogeny - ANS-history which selects for behaviors learned over the organism's lifetime
dualism - ANS-the position that there are multiple worlds apart from the physical world
materialism - ANS-the belief that the world is made up of only physical things and
events of a variety of relations and states
respondent behavior - ANS-the kind of behavior that is correlated with specific eliciting
stimuli
, operant behavior - ANS-behavior for which the causal mode of selection is
consequences; often described as either contingency-shaped or rule-governed.
rule governed behavior - ANS-occurs when an individual is behavior in accordance with
explicit rules, advice, or instructions
contingency shaped behavior - ANS-the class of operant behavior that (a) follows the
principle of consequential selection and (b) comes under stimulus control and is
described using the three-term contingency
overt behavior - ANS-readily observable by others
covert behavior - ANS-not readily observable by others
private events - ANS-real events that are characterized by limited accessibility to others
determinism - ANS-the assumption that behavior is lawfully determined by physical
events and can be studied as such
collecting facts about observed events for quantification, classification, and comparison
with other knowledge - ANS-description
using information from repeated observations to suppose that two events are correlated
and the presence of one is indicative of the other being likely to occur - ANS-prediction
the highest level of scientific understanding that allows you to predict with certainty
when one event will occur and reliably produce it - ANS-control
a systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena, as evidenced by
description, prediction, and control that relies on determinism, empiricism, replication,
parsimony and philosophic doubt - ANS-science
behaviors that are relevant and meaningful to society or the population with which you
are working - ANS-socially important behaviors
systematic covariation between two events - ANS-correlation
exists when a well-controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event
can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event, and that change
was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous variables - ANS-functional relations
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