SPCE 611 Final Exam
applied behavior analysis - correct answer ✔The science in which tactics
derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially
significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables
responsible for the improvement in behavior.
behaviorism - correct answer ✔A theoretical orientation based on the
premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior
determinism - correct answer ✔The universe is a lawful and orderly place in
which all phenomena occurs as the result of other events.
empiricism - correct answer ✔the practice of objective observation and
measurement of the phenomena of interest
experiment - correct answer ✔a controlled comparison of some measure of
the phenomena of interest under two or more different conditions in which
only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another
experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) - correct answer ✔a natural science
approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded
by BF Skinner
explanatory fiction - correct 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 (ex: saying someone doesn't read well because they are an
"underachiever"
, functional analysis - correct answer ✔1. denotes demonstrations of
functional relations between environmental variables and behavior
2. experimental methodology for determining environmental variables and
contingencies maintaining problem behavior
functional relation - correct answer ✔exists when a well-controlled
experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (dependent variable)
can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event
(independent variable) and that the change in the dependent variable was
unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors (confounding variables)
hypothetical construct - correct answer ✔theoretical terms that refer to a
possibly existing, but at the moment unobserved process or entity; cannot be
manipulated or demonstrated in an experiment (ex: Freud's ego, id, superego
-- this is not directly observable)
mentalism - correct 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 behavior, if not all.
methodological behaviorism - correct answer ✔A philosophical position that
views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm
of science.
parsimony - correct answer ✔the process of ruling out simple, logical
explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more
complex or abstract explanations
philosophic doubt - correct answer ✔an attitude that the truthfulness and
validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned
applied behavior analysis - correct answer ✔The science in which tactics
derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially
significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables
responsible for the improvement in behavior.
behaviorism - correct answer ✔A theoretical orientation based on the
premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior
determinism - correct answer ✔The universe is a lawful and orderly place in
which all phenomena occurs as the result of other events.
empiricism - correct answer ✔the practice of objective observation and
measurement of the phenomena of interest
experiment - correct answer ✔a controlled comparison of some measure of
the phenomena of interest under two or more different conditions in which
only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another
experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) - correct answer ✔a natural science
approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded
by BF Skinner
explanatory fiction - correct 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 (ex: saying someone doesn't read well because they are an
"underachiever"
, functional analysis - correct answer ✔1. denotes demonstrations of
functional relations between environmental variables and behavior
2. experimental methodology for determining environmental variables and
contingencies maintaining problem behavior
functional relation - correct answer ✔exists when a well-controlled
experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (dependent variable)
can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event
(independent variable) and that the change in the dependent variable was
unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors (confounding variables)
hypothetical construct - correct answer ✔theoretical terms that refer to a
possibly existing, but at the moment unobserved process or entity; cannot be
manipulated or demonstrated in an experiment (ex: Freud's ego, id, superego
-- this is not directly observable)
mentalism - correct 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 behavior, if not all.
methodological behaviorism - correct answer ✔A philosophical position that
views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm
of science.
parsimony - correct answer ✔the process of ruling out simple, logical
explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more
complex or abstract explanations
philosophic doubt - correct answer ✔an attitude that the truthfulness and
validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned
