UWF EDF 6225 ACTUAL FINALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔behaviorism addresses - ✔✔theoretical and philosophical issues
✔✔EAB involves - ✔✔◦Basic research
◦Experiments in laboratory settings with both human participants and nonhuman
subjects
◦Goal of discovering & clarifying fundamental principles of behavior
✔✔ABA experiments are aimed at - ✔✔◦discovering & clarifying functional relations
between socially significant behavior & its controlling variables
✔✔professional practice - ✔✔◦Providing behavior analytic services to consumers
◦Design, implement, & evaluate behavior change programs that consist of behavior
change tactics derived from fundamental principles of behavior
Discovered by basic researchers
Experimentally validated for their effects on socially significant behavior by applied
researchers
✔✔ science - ✔✔Systematic approach for seeking & organizing knowledge about the
natural world
✔✔purpose of science - ✔✔◦To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena
under study
✔✔ABA seeks to - ✔✔discover the real truths (not those held by certain groups,
organizations, etc.)
✔✔Three different types of investigations provide different levels of understanding -
✔✔1. description
2. prediction
3. control
, ✔✔description - ✔✔◦Collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified,
classified, & examined for possible relations with other known facts
◦Often suggests hypotheses or questions for additional research
✔✔prediction - ✔✔◦Relative probability that when one event occurs, another event will
or will not occur
◦Based on repeated observation revealing relationships between various events
◦Demonstrates correlation between events
◦No causal relationships can be interpreted
◦Enables preparation
✔✔control - ✔✔◦Highest level of scientific understanding
◦Functional relations can be derived
Specific change in one event (dependent variable)....
Can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (independent
variable)...
And the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other
extraneous factors (confounding variables)
◦Events can only really be "co-related"
Nearly impossible to factor out all other possible "causes"
✔✔attitudes of science - ✔✔- Definition of science lies within the behavior of scientists,
not the instruments or materials they use
- Only known as science due to an overriding idea of "scientific method"
- Fundamental assumptions about the nature of events
✔✔6 attitudes of science - ✔✔1. DETERMINISM
2. EMPIRICISM
3. EXPERIMENTATION
4. REPLICATION
5. PARSIMONY
6. PHILOSOPHIC DOUBT
✔✔determinism - ✔✔- Assumption upon which science is predicted
- Presumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena
occur as the result of other events
- Events do not just occur at will
- Events are related in systematic ways
✔✔empiricism - ✔✔- Practice of objective observation of phenomena of interest
- What all scientific knowledge is built upon
- "Objective" is the key to gaining a better understanding of what is being studied
✔✔experimentation - ✔✔- Basic strategy in most sciences
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔behaviorism addresses - ✔✔theoretical and philosophical issues
✔✔EAB involves - ✔✔◦Basic research
◦Experiments in laboratory settings with both human participants and nonhuman
subjects
◦Goal of discovering & clarifying fundamental principles of behavior
✔✔ABA experiments are aimed at - ✔✔◦discovering & clarifying functional relations
between socially significant behavior & its controlling variables
✔✔professional practice - ✔✔◦Providing behavior analytic services to consumers
◦Design, implement, & evaluate behavior change programs that consist of behavior
change tactics derived from fundamental principles of behavior
Discovered by basic researchers
Experimentally validated for their effects on socially significant behavior by applied
researchers
✔✔ science - ✔✔Systematic approach for seeking & organizing knowledge about the
natural world
✔✔purpose of science - ✔✔◦To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena
under study
✔✔ABA seeks to - ✔✔discover the real truths (not those held by certain groups,
organizations, etc.)
✔✔Three different types of investigations provide different levels of understanding -
✔✔1. description
2. prediction
3. control
, ✔✔description - ✔✔◦Collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified,
classified, & examined for possible relations with other known facts
◦Often suggests hypotheses or questions for additional research
✔✔prediction - ✔✔◦Relative probability that when one event occurs, another event will
or will not occur
◦Based on repeated observation revealing relationships between various events
◦Demonstrates correlation between events
◦No causal relationships can be interpreted
◦Enables preparation
✔✔control - ✔✔◦Highest level of scientific understanding
◦Functional relations can be derived
Specific change in one event (dependent variable)....
Can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (independent
variable)...
And the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other
extraneous factors (confounding variables)
◦Events can only really be "co-related"
Nearly impossible to factor out all other possible "causes"
✔✔attitudes of science - ✔✔- Definition of science lies within the behavior of scientists,
not the instruments or materials they use
- Only known as science due to an overriding idea of "scientific method"
- Fundamental assumptions about the nature of events
✔✔6 attitudes of science - ✔✔1. DETERMINISM
2. EMPIRICISM
3. EXPERIMENTATION
4. REPLICATION
5. PARSIMONY
6. PHILOSOPHIC DOUBT
✔✔determinism - ✔✔- Assumption upon which science is predicted
- Presumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena
occur as the result of other events
- Events do not just occur at will
- Events are related in systematic ways
✔✔empiricism - ✔✔- Practice of objective observation of phenomena of interest
- What all scientific knowledge is built upon
- "Objective" is the key to gaining a better understanding of what is being studied
✔✔experimentation - ✔✔- Basic strategy in most sciences
