ABA - ANS scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those discoveries
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What are the three types of invest...
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practical advantage of those discoveries
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What are the three types of investigations in science? - ANS 1. description
2. prediction
3. control
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Description - ANS collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified, classified,
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- suggests hypotheses or questions
Prediction - ANS relative probability that when one event occurs, another event will or will not
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- based on repeated observations that reveal correlations
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- no causal relationships can be interpreted
Control - ANS highest level of scientific understanding
- functional relations can be derived
Functional Relation - ANS specific change in one event (DV) can reliably be produced by
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specific manipulations of another event (IV)
What are the six scientific attitudes? - ANS 1. determinism
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2. empiricism
3. experimentation
4. replication
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5. parsimony
6. philosophic doubt
Determinism - ANS presumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all
phenomena occur as a result of other events
- assumption upon which science is predicated
- events do not just occur at will
- events are related in systematic ways
Empiricism - ANS practice of objective observation of phenomena of interest
- what all scientific knowledge is built upon
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