UWF EDF 6225 REVIEW TIPS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔A functional relation exists when - ✔✔A change in a dependent variable is reliably
produced by manipulations of the independent variable
✔✔The foremost rule in behavior analysis - ✔✔Empiricism
✔✔Our language suggests that... - ✔✔Behavior is generally motivated and controlled
by events going on in the mind, emotions control subsequent actions, and we can make
choices that are free of outside influences
✔✔Knowledge about (or study of) the natural world based on facts learned through
experiments and observation. Systemized knowledge derived from observation, study,
etc. Achieves a greater understanding of area of study. Rooted in scientific method:
problem, observe/measure, formulate/test hypothesis - ✔✔Science
✔✔The philosophy of the science of behavior. The behavior is controlled by the
environment. - ✔✔Behaviorism
✔✔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) -
✔✔Mentalism
✔✔Presumed but unobserved entities that can't be manipulated in an experiment
(cognitvie processes, drives, free will, etc.) - ✔✔Hypothetical constructs
✔✔Fictitious variable contributing nothing to an understanding of the variables response
for developing or maintaining bx (circular logic) - ✔✔Explanatory fictions
✔✔Published 20 books. Behavior of organisms (1938) and other popular ones include
Walden Two (1948) and verbal behavior (1957) - ✔✔Skinner
, ✔✔Identified distinction between respondent and operant behavior. Looked towards
environment for determinants of bx which appeas "voluntary". - ✔✔Skinner
✔✔Restricts activities to descriptions of bx and makes no scientific manipulations; no
causality - ✔✔Structural behaviorism
✔✔Rejects all non-observable events, denied existence of "inner variables" or they
aren't considered science, and searches for functional relationships - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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) - ✔✔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. - ✔✔Response
✔✔Responses can be described by: - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Stimulus
✔✔Defined as behavior that is elicited by antecedent stimuli. Ready-made behaviors
protect against harmful stimuli. - ✔✔Respondent behavior
✔✔Gradually diminishing response strength - ✔✔Habituation
✔✔Experimental demonstrations of respondent behavior - ✔✔Respondent conditioning
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔A functional relation exists when - ✔✔A change in a dependent variable is reliably
produced by manipulations of the independent variable
✔✔The foremost rule in behavior analysis - ✔✔Empiricism
✔✔Our language suggests that... - ✔✔Behavior is generally motivated and controlled
by events going on in the mind, emotions control subsequent actions, and we can make
choices that are free of outside influences
✔✔Knowledge about (or study of) the natural world based on facts learned through
experiments and observation. Systemized knowledge derived from observation, study,
etc. Achieves a greater understanding of area of study. Rooted in scientific method:
problem, observe/measure, formulate/test hypothesis - ✔✔Science
✔✔The philosophy of the science of behavior. The behavior is controlled by the
environment. - ✔✔Behaviorism
✔✔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) -
✔✔Mentalism
✔✔Presumed but unobserved entities that can't be manipulated in an experiment
(cognitvie processes, drives, free will, etc.) - ✔✔Hypothetical constructs
✔✔Fictitious variable contributing nothing to an understanding of the variables response
for developing or maintaining bx (circular logic) - ✔✔Explanatory fictions
✔✔Published 20 books. Behavior of organisms (1938) and other popular ones include
Walden Two (1948) and verbal behavior (1957) - ✔✔Skinner
, ✔✔Identified distinction between respondent and operant behavior. Looked towards
environment for determinants of bx which appeas "voluntary". - ✔✔Skinner
✔✔Restricts activities to descriptions of bx and makes no scientific manipulations; no
causality - ✔✔Structural behaviorism
✔✔Rejects all non-observable events, denied existence of "inner variables" or they
aren't considered science, and searches for functional relationships - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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) - ✔✔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. - ✔✔Response
✔✔Responses can be described by: - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Stimulus
✔✔Defined as behavior that is elicited by antecedent stimuli. Ready-made behaviors
protect against harmful stimuli. - ✔✔Respondent behavior
✔✔Gradually diminishing response strength - ✔✔Habituation
✔✔Experimental demonstrations of respondent behavior - ✔✔Respondent conditioning
