UWF EDF 6226 EXAM 1 PRACTICE TEST
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ What is correlation?
Answer: A relationship between two variables that can be used to
predict the relative probability that one event will occur, based on
the presence of the other event
◉ What are the three levels of scientific understanding?
Answer: Description, prediction, control
◉ Dr. Pennypacker made an important distinction that we do not
control behavior, what we do control is the .....
Answer: Environment
◉ True or False: Behavior analysts believe that behavior is intrinsic
to the organism
Answer: False - we believe behavior is extrinsic to the organism
◉ What is prediction in behavior analysis?
, Answer: The anticipated outcome of presently known or future
measurement. It is the most elegant use of quantification upon
which validation of all scientific and technological activity rests -
Pennypacker
◉ What is experimental control?
Answer: A predictable change in behavior can be reliably produced
by the systematic manipulation of some aspect of the persons
environment
◉ What two things make up experimental control?
Answer: Internal validity + external validity
◉ What variable is dependent in behavior analysis?
Answer: Behavior
◉ What variable is independent in behavior analysis?
Answer: The environmental manipulations
◉ What variables do we have to control in order to establish
experimental control?
Answer: Two - independent variables and extraneous variables
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ What is correlation?
Answer: A relationship between two variables that can be used to
predict the relative probability that one event will occur, based on
the presence of the other event
◉ What are the three levels of scientific understanding?
Answer: Description, prediction, control
◉ Dr. Pennypacker made an important distinction that we do not
control behavior, what we do control is the .....
Answer: Environment
◉ True or False: Behavior analysts believe that behavior is intrinsic
to the organism
Answer: False - we believe behavior is extrinsic to the organism
◉ What is prediction in behavior analysis?
, Answer: The anticipated outcome of presently known or future
measurement. It is the most elegant use of quantification upon
which validation of all scientific and technological activity rests -
Pennypacker
◉ What is experimental control?
Answer: A predictable change in behavior can be reliably produced
by the systematic manipulation of some aspect of the persons
environment
◉ What two things make up experimental control?
Answer: Internal validity + external validity
◉ What variable is dependent in behavior analysis?
Answer: Behavior
◉ What variable is independent in behavior analysis?
Answer: The environmental manipulations
◉ What variables do we have to control in order to establish
experimental control?
Answer: Two - independent variables and extraneous variables
