EDF 6223 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
▶ Inner thoughts (and other things we cannot observe) mediate something
with our behavior. Used to be the accepted way of thinking (e.g., Freud,
Descartes). Answer: Mentalism
▶ Presumed but unobserved entities that can't be manipulated in an
experiment (cognitvie processes, drives, free will, etc.). Answer:
Hypothetical constructs
▶ Fictitious variable contributing nothing to an understanding of the
variables response for developing or maintaining bx (circular logic).
Answer: Explanatory fictions
▶ Published 20 books. Behavior of organisms (1938) and other popular
ones include Walden Two (1948) and verbal behavior (1957). Answer:
Skinner
▶ Identified distinction between respondent and operant behavior. Looked
towards environment for determinants of bx which appeas "voluntary"..
Answer: Skinner
▶ Restricts activities to descriptions of bx and makes no scientific
manipulations; no causality. Answer: Structural behaviorism
▶ Rejects all non-observable events, denied existence of "inner variables"
or they aren't considered science, and searches for functional relationships.
Answer: Methodological behaviorism
▶ University training programs were developed around ABA, teaching and
research made major contributions to the rapid growth of the field, and
these people made our current field possible.. Answer: Education's impact
in the 1960s
, ▶ Publication of "some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis" by
Baer, Wolf, and Risley. 7 defining dimensions for ABA research or bx
change programs.. Answer: 1968
▶ The behavior of an organism is that portion of an organism's interaction
with its environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in
space through time and some part of the organism and that results in a
measurable change in at least one aspect of the environment. Answer:
Behavior (johnston and pennypacker (2009)
▶ Physical characteristics (how they look or interact with the environment)
and functions (behaviors that are unrelated but share the same function).
Answer: Behavior class
▶ "Action of an organism's effector" In a human this could occur in striated
muscles, smooth muscles (stomach or bladder muscles), or glands..
Answer: Response
▶ Responses can be described by:. Answer: Response topography (form -
how they look, physical characteristics) and functional (effects of behavior
on environment
▶ "an energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells"
Anything that an organism interacts with even if it's not observable.
Answer: Stimulus
▶ Defined as behavior that is elicited by antecedent stimuli. Ready-made
behaviors protect against harmful stimuli.. Answer: Respondent behavior
▶ Gradually diminishing response strength. Answer: Habituation
▶ Experimental demonstrations of respondent behavior. Answer:
Respondent conditioning
▶ Respondent conditioning. Answer: Ivan Pavlov & dogs
▶ Environmental conditions or stimulus changes that exist or occur prior to
the behavior.. Answer: Antecedent
AND COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
▶ Inner thoughts (and other things we cannot observe) mediate something
with our behavior. Used to be the accepted way of thinking (e.g., Freud,
Descartes). Answer: Mentalism
▶ Presumed but unobserved entities that can't be manipulated in an
experiment (cognitvie processes, drives, free will, etc.). Answer:
Hypothetical constructs
▶ Fictitious variable contributing nothing to an understanding of the
variables response for developing or maintaining bx (circular logic).
Answer: Explanatory fictions
▶ Published 20 books. Behavior of organisms (1938) and other popular
ones include Walden Two (1948) and verbal behavior (1957). Answer:
Skinner
▶ Identified distinction between respondent and operant behavior. Looked
towards environment for determinants of bx which appeas "voluntary"..
Answer: Skinner
▶ Restricts activities to descriptions of bx and makes no scientific
manipulations; no causality. Answer: Structural behaviorism
▶ Rejects all non-observable events, denied existence of "inner variables"
or they aren't considered science, and searches for functional relationships.
Answer: Methodological behaviorism
▶ University training programs were developed around ABA, teaching and
research made major contributions to the rapid growth of the field, and
these people made our current field possible.. Answer: Education's impact
in the 1960s
, ▶ Publication of "some current dimensions of applied behavior analysis" by
Baer, Wolf, and Risley. 7 defining dimensions for ABA research or bx
change programs.. Answer: 1968
▶ The behavior of an organism is that portion of an organism's interaction
with its environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in
space through time and some part of the organism and that results in a
measurable change in at least one aspect of the environment. Answer:
Behavior (johnston and pennypacker (2009)
▶ Physical characteristics (how they look or interact with the environment)
and functions (behaviors that are unrelated but share the same function).
Answer: Behavior class
▶ "Action of an organism's effector" In a human this could occur in striated
muscles, smooth muscles (stomach or bladder muscles), or glands..
Answer: Response
▶ Responses can be described by:. Answer: Response topography (form -
how they look, physical characteristics) and functional (effects of behavior
on environment
▶ "an energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells"
Anything that an organism interacts with even if it's not observable.
Answer: Stimulus
▶ Defined as behavior that is elicited by antecedent stimuli. Ready-made
behaviors protect against harmful stimuli.. Answer: Respondent behavior
▶ Gradually diminishing response strength. Answer: Habituation
▶ Experimental demonstrations of respondent behavior. Answer:
Respondent conditioning
▶ Respondent conditioning. Answer: Ivan Pavlov & dogs
▶ Environmental conditions or stimulus changes that exist or occur prior to
the behavior.. Answer: Antecedent
