BEHV 5610 Exam Test Bank Questions Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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BEHV 5610 Exam Test Bank Questions Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Which of the following are purposes of science? - Correct Answer control
prediction
description
Scientific observations help build understanding by enabling scientists to describe it accurately. - Correct Answer describe
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BEHV 5610 Exam Test Bank Questions Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
Which of the following are purposes of science? - Correct Answer control
prediction
description
Scientific observations help build understanding by enabling scientists to describe it accurately. -
Correct Answer describe
When two events occur in a consistent pattern with one another, what do we call it? - Correct
Answer correlation
The greatest potential benefits from science come from which level of scientific understanding? -
Correct Answer control
Statements that describe the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the
operation of specific variables are called - Correct Answer functional relations
Science could be described as: - Correct Answer a way to achieve a thorough understanding of
phenomena under study
the discovery of facts and universal laws
a systematic approach for organizing knowledge about the world
When the attitude of determinism is put into practice, what will a scientist do first? - Correct Answer
assume the behavior is lawful
Juan is collecting data on the number of times the Little League coach makes the players run sprints.
He collects data on the player that is made to run sprints and the behaviors they engage that results
in running.
This example is most consistent with what level of scientific understanding? - Correct Answer
Description
,Juan is collecting data on the number of times the Little League coach makes the players run sprints.
He collects data on the player that is made to run sprints and the behaviors they engage that results
in running. He notices a pattern that players who commit errors fielding ground balls are made to run
sprints more than players who make throwing errors.
Juan noticing a pattern between errors and running is most consistent with what level of scientific
understanding? - Correct Answer Prediction
Mindy is collecting ABC data on her client's crying behavior. She records the antecedents, crying, and
consequences that follow the behavior. She notices a pattern that entering a loud room consistently
precedes crying. She hypothesizes that loud sounds evoke crying. She then arranges conditions to
test the hypothesis where she has her client enter in a loud room and another condition where her
client enters a quiet room (independent variables) and measures crying (dependent variable). Results
showed that crying consistently followed entering the loud room.
Mindy testing her hypothesis is most consistent with what level of scientific understanding? - Correct
Answer Control
What is the highest level of scientific understanding? - Correct Answer Control
the Science of Behavior is a _______approach for seeking and organizing __________about how the
natural world affects _____________ . - Correct Answer systematic; knowledge; behavior
What was the main purpose of Skinner's scientific pursuit? - Correct Answer predicting and
controlling of behavior
What are the difference between inductive and deductive methods?
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer Inductive methods suggest functional relations and principles
from existing data.
Deductive methods formulate theories and then test those theories experimentally.
Which characteristic of classic psychology did Skinner reject?
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer The theory that interprets behavior as the result of some
unobservable event in another dimension.
The theory that variables responsible for behavior exist within the organism itself.
,Which of the following is the first step in the development of a theory? - Correct Answer Determine
what you want to study.
Answers to which of the following questions can aid in the evaluation of the worth of some theory? -
Correct Answer Were you able to predict and control your subject matter using this theory?
Was this theory useful for the scientist to make progress independently?
Was the theory scientifically useful for solving problems?
An independent variable is:
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer the variable that the scientist manipulates
the variable that we apply to effect behavior
Skinner's proposed term for an observed, orderly relation between the occurrence of one variable
and some change in behavior is termed: - Correct Answer functional relation
Which of the following assumptions need to be made in order to have a science of behavior? -
Correct Answer Behavior is lawfully determined.
Which of the following are consistent with Skinner's view on the causes of behavior?
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer Behavior cannot be attributed to internal states and/or
processes.
Environmentalism does not eliminate genetic causes of behavior.
Skinner argued in support of which of the following: - Correct Answer consequential causality
According to Delprato and Midgely's interpretation of Skinner's point of view, what does it mean to
say that behavior is not inherited? - Correct Answer Organisms can inherit sensitivities to ontogenic
contingencies, not behavior
What is dualism? - Correct Answer The belief that mind and body are of separate physical worlds.
Which of the following are consistent with Delprato and Midgley's discussion of Skinner's views on
psychology and behavior as a subject matter?
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer Behavior should be the primary subject matter of psychology.
, Skinner asserted that anything the organism does is considered behavior.
Skinner rejected behaviorism that treats behavior as evidence for cognition.
What was Skinner's perspective of private or "mental" events?
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer Skinner encouraged analysis of private behaviors.
Skinner claimed that private and public events adhere to the same natural laws.
What is reductionism? - Correct Answer The assumption that some events can be reduced and
explained on a more simplistic level.
On which of the following topics do Delprato and Midgley point out Skinner's conflicting statements?
- Correct Answer reductionism
Which of the following statements are supported by Skinner's writings as discussed in Delprato and
Midgley?
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer Behaviorism should adhere to inductive methods, rather than
deductive methods of science.
The world only contains physical or material items of various states and relations.
Contact with environmental contingencies changes the organism on a biological level.
_________behavior refers to stimulus-response functional relations; ___________refers to response-
consequence functional relations. - Correct Answer respondent ; operant
What is the defining features of a response class? - Correct Answer environmental effect similarity
between responses
According to Skinner, what is the third kind of natural selection? - Correct Answer cultural evolution
According to Skinner, which of the following are the critical elements of the three-term contingency?
(Select all that apply) - Correct Answer response
consequences
antecedent stimuli
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