BEHV 5600 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
analytic - CORRECT ANSWER -that dimension which requires demonstration of functional
relations between the manipulated events and reliable change in some measurable dimension of the target
bx
antecedent - CORRECT ANSWER -an environmental condition or stimulus change existing or
occuring prior to behavior of interest
applied - CORRECT ANSWER -the selection of behavior that is socially significan for participants
and improves their daily life
applied behavior analysis - CORRECT ANSWER -the science in which tactics derived from the
principles of bx are systematically applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is
used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement of bx
behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -that portion of an organism's interaction with its environment
that involves movement of some part of the organism
behavioral - CORRECT ANSWER -selection of behavior that is in need of improvement and
measurable; in addition, steps are taken to ensure that the behavior which was intended to be changed is
that which is changed
behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER -the philosophy of the science of behavior of which there are
various forms that focuses primarily of the theoretical and conceptual issues
conceptually systematic - CORRECT ANSWER -methods and results are aligned with other
findings in the database of generalizable knowledge of behavior
conditioned reflex - CORRECT ANSWER -a learned stimulus - response functional relation
consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits
,conditioned stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER -the stimulus component of a conditioned reflex; a
formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been paired with an
unconditioned stimulus (US) or another CS
consequence - CORRECT ANSWER -a stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest that can
have little or no effect on future behavior
contingency - CORRECT ANSWER -refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between
operant behavior and its controlling variable
contingency-shaped behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -behavior acquired by direct experience with
contingencies
determinism - CORRECT ANSWER -the presumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly
place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events
discriminative stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER -a stimulus in the presence of which a given
behavior has been reinforced and in the absence of which that behavior has not been reinforced; as a
result of this history, this stimulus evokes operant behavior because its presence signals the availability of
reinforcement
effective - CORRECT ANSWER -the intervention improves behavior to a practical degree
empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER -the attitude of science which requires the objective
observation of the phenomena of interest
experimental analysis of behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -a natural science approach to the study
of behavior as a subject matter in its own right and discover its basic principles
experimentation - CORRECT ANSWER -the basic strategy of science in which the factor(s)
suspected of having causal status are systematically controlled and manipulated while the effects on the
event under study are carefully observed
, 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
extinction - CORRECT ANSWER -the discontinuing of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced
behavior; the primary effect is a decrease in the frequency of the behavior until it reaches a pre-reinforced
level or ultimately ceases to occur
functional relation - CORRECT ANSWER -Exists when a well-controlled experiment reveals that a
specific change in one event can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event, and that
change was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous variables.
generality - CORRECT ANSWER -Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environments
other than the one in which the intervention that initially produced it was implemented, and/or spreads to
other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention.
mentalism - CORRECT ANSWER -the assumption that behavior occurs because of cognitive,
mental, or hypothetical events
methodological behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER -a philosophical position that views
behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science
negative punishment - CORRECT ANSWER -response behavior followed immediately by the
removal of a stimulus (or a decrease in the intensity of the stimulus) that results in similar responses
occuring less often
negative reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER -contingency in which the occurrence of a response
is followed immediately by the termination, reduction, postponement, or avoidance of a stimulus, and
which leads to an increase in the future occurrence of similar responses
neutral stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER -a stimulus change that does not elicit respondent
behavior
parsimony - CORRECT ANSWER -the practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations,
experimentally or conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations
Questions and CORRECT Answers
analytic - CORRECT ANSWER -that dimension which requires demonstration of functional
relations between the manipulated events and reliable change in some measurable dimension of the target
bx
antecedent - CORRECT ANSWER -an environmental condition or stimulus change existing or
occuring prior to behavior of interest
applied - CORRECT ANSWER -the selection of behavior that is socially significan for participants
and improves their daily life
applied behavior analysis - CORRECT ANSWER -the science in which tactics derived from the
principles of bx are systematically applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is
used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement of bx
behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -that portion of an organism's interaction with its environment
that involves movement of some part of the organism
behavioral - CORRECT ANSWER -selection of behavior that is in need of improvement and
measurable; in addition, steps are taken to ensure that the behavior which was intended to be changed is
that which is changed
behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER -the philosophy of the science of behavior of which there are
various forms that focuses primarily of the theoretical and conceptual issues
conceptually systematic - CORRECT ANSWER -methods and results are aligned with other
findings in the database of generalizable knowledge of behavior
conditioned reflex - CORRECT ANSWER -a learned stimulus - response functional relation
consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits
,conditioned stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER -the stimulus component of a conditioned reflex; a
formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been paired with an
unconditioned stimulus (US) or another CS
consequence - CORRECT ANSWER -a stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest that can
have little or no effect on future behavior
contingency - CORRECT ANSWER -refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between
operant behavior and its controlling variable
contingency-shaped behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -behavior acquired by direct experience with
contingencies
determinism - CORRECT ANSWER -the presumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly
place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events
discriminative stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER -a stimulus in the presence of which a given
behavior has been reinforced and in the absence of which that behavior has not been reinforced; as a
result of this history, this stimulus evokes operant behavior because its presence signals the availability of
reinforcement
effective - CORRECT ANSWER -the intervention improves behavior to a practical degree
empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER -the attitude of science which requires the objective
observation of the phenomena of interest
experimental analysis of behavior - CORRECT ANSWER -a natural science approach to the study
of behavior as a subject matter in its own right and discover its basic principles
experimentation - CORRECT ANSWER -the basic strategy of science in which the factor(s)
suspected of having causal status are systematically controlled and manipulated while the effects on the
event under study are carefully observed
, 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
extinction - CORRECT ANSWER -the discontinuing of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced
behavior; the primary effect is a decrease in the frequency of the behavior until it reaches a pre-reinforced
level or ultimately ceases to occur
functional relation - CORRECT ANSWER -Exists when a well-controlled experiment reveals that a
specific change in one event can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event, and that
change was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous variables.
generality - CORRECT ANSWER -Behavior change that lasts over time, appears in environments
other than the one in which the intervention that initially produced it was implemented, and/or spreads to
other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention.
mentalism - CORRECT ANSWER -the assumption that behavior occurs because of cognitive,
mental, or hypothetical events
methodological behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER -a philosophical position that views
behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science
negative punishment - CORRECT ANSWER -response behavior followed immediately by the
removal of a stimulus (or a decrease in the intensity of the stimulus) that results in similar responses
occuring less often
negative reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER -contingency in which the occurrence of a response
is followed immediately by the termination, reduction, postponement, or avoidance of a stimulus, and
which leads to an increase in the future occurrence of similar responses
neutral stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER -a stimulus change that does not elicit respondent
behavior
parsimony - CORRECT ANSWER -the practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations,
experimentally or conceptually, before considering more complex or abstract explanations
