What reflects the highest level of scientific understanding, and allows scientists to know that one
event causes another event? - ANS Control
Attitudes of Science: Define, objectively observe, and measure phenomenon - ANS Empiricism
Attitudes of Science: Choose the most simple explanation for a phenomenon - ANS Parsimony
Attitudes of Science: Why scientific knowledge evolves and mistakes are discovered - ANS
Replication
Attitudes of Science: When we manipulate an independent variable and measure possible
effects on a dependent variable - ANS Experimentation
Attitudes of Science: Continuously questioning the validity of all scientific knowledge - ANS
Philosophical Doubt
Attitudes of Science: Events are not random - ANS Determinism
Behavior which is elicited by preceding stimuli and also referred to as a reflex - ANS
Respondent Behavior
B.F. Skinner's history of radical behaviorism ______(did/did not) include private events - ANS
Did not
Characteristics of ABA: Procedures are written in sufficient detail so that others may replicate
them - ANS Technological
Characteristics of ABA: The behavior must be measurable - ANS Behavioral
Characteristics of ABA: Interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior - ANS
Conceptual
Characteristics of ABA: Focuses on socially significant behaviors that have immediate
importance to our clients - ANS Applied
Characteristics of ABA: Behavior changes last over time and appear in new environments - ANS
Generality
Characteristics of ABA: Noticeable changes are made - ANS Effective
, Characteristics of ABA: Demonstrate experimental control over the occurrence and
non-occurence of the behavior - ANS Analytic
What is the most useful way to describe stimuli, according to behavior analysts? - ANS
Functionally
In operant conditioning, the future frequency of a behavior is determined primarily by what? -
ANS It's history of consequences
What alters the value of a consequence as a reinforcer or punisher? - ANS Motivating operation
This type of reinforcer and punisher vary from person to person, depending on learning history -
ANS Conditioned
A discriminated operant is a behavior the occurs more frequently under some antecedent
conditions than others. (True/False) - ANS True
What is the most important principle of Applied Behavior Analysis? - ANS Positive
Reinforcement
Positive reinforcement is defined as the _____________ of a stimulus dependent on a response
which ____________ the future probability of that response - ANS Addition; increases
Positive reinforcement os responsible for the increase of a response if the presentation of the
stimulus is given when? - ANS Immediately
An establishing operation does what to the effectiveness of a stimulus as a reinforcer? - ANS
Increases it
An abolishing operation does what to the effectiveness of a stimulus as a reinforcer? - ANS
Decreases it
Is temporal relation (timing) or logical connection of a reinforcer more important to the response
it follows? - ANS Temporal relation
When categorizing reinforcers by their formal properties, playing a game of basketball would be
considered primarily what? - ANS Activity
What helps us identify what could be a potential reinforcer? - ANS Stimulus preference
assessment
What is a test that shows is whether something is actually working as a reinforcer? - ANS
Reinforcer assessment
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