independent variable - ANS ✓the event in which we manipulate. In behavior
analysis it is known as the intervention.
dependent variable - ANS ✓the event in which we observe change. in behavior
analysis is known as the behavior.
Applied Behavior Analysis is set apart from other disciplines by - ANS
✓focus, goals, and methods
The goals of ABA are - ANS ✓description, prediction, and control
Descriptive knowledge consists of a collection of facts about the observed
events that can be - ANS ✓quantified, classified, and examined for possible
relations
The highest level of scientific understanding - ANS ✓control
A functional relation exists when a change in__________ is reliably produced
by manipulations of the ___________ - ANS ✓a dependent, independent
The practice of objective observation and measurement is - ANS
✓empiricism
Empiricism is the foremost rule - ANS ✓in behavior analysis
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Repeating experiments is - ANS ✓replication
the logical explanations for the phenomenon under investigation are ruled
out - ANS ✓parsimony
Questioning the truthfulness of facts is - ANS ✓philosophic doubt
______________ assumes that all phenomena occur as the result of other events
- ANS ✓Determinism
____________ is antithetical to determinism - ANS ✓Accidentalism
According to Johnston and Pennypacker, a ___________ is the portion of an
organism's interaction with it's environment that involves displacement of
some part of the organism - ANS ✓behavior
Responses can include - ANS ✓striated and smooth muscles and glands
One definition of a response class is - ANS ✓a group of responses with the
same function
A stimulus is - ANS ✓an energy change that affects an organism through its
receptor cells
A stimulus class - ANS ✓any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of
common elements
respondent conditioning - ANS ✓Formerly neutral stimuli can acquire the
ability to elicit respondents
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