SPCE 611; Sections 1 -2
Exam Questions and
Answers
Denning [Date] [Course title]
, To fully understand the phenomena being studied. - Correct Answers: What is the goal of science?
Determinism. - Correct Answers: Events are related in systematic ways to other factors.
Behavior. - Correct Answers: An organism's interaction with the environment that's characterized by a
displacement of space through time that results in a change in at least one part of the environment.
EX: Picking up a pencil from the ground.
Applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, and generality. - Correct
Answers: What are the dimensions of ABA?
Response and response class. - Correct Answers: Action of an organism's effector. EX: A smile.
A group of responses with the same function. EX: Opening a bag.
Stimulus and stimulus class. - Correct Answers: An energy change that affects an organism through its
receptor cells.
A group of stimuli with predetermined set of common elements in one or more dimension.
Positive reinforcement. - Correct Answers: Behavior increases in the future when something is added.
EX: Student gets a sticker after finishing homework.
Negative reinforcement. - Correct Answers: Behavior increases in the future when something is taken
away.
EX: Putting your seat belt on [the beep goes away].
Conditioned and unconditioned reinforcement. - Correct Answers: Conditioned: Paired with event after
behavior...can be reinforcing or punisher. EX: Student gets in trouble and peers laugh, so student
continues to get in trouble to make others laugh [attention].
Unconditioned: Can increase future freq of beh. without pairing EX: Food
Positive punishment. - Correct Answers: Something added to decrease behavior in the future.
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