SPE 563 TEST PAPER SET ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Which term describes a change in the environment which signals the availability of
reinforcement and that may induce an activity ? - ✔✔Discriminative Stimulus ???
✔✔The term that is described as the relation between a stimulus and the activity it
induces is known as what? - ✔✔Stimulus control
✔✔Which term is known as a verbal discriminative stimulus that signals the availability
of reinforcement and may induce an activity? - ✔✔Rule
✔✔Which term refers to the tendency to tailor behavior about right and wrong or good
and bad to specific situations rather than more generally? - ✔✔Situational Ethics
✔✔ Which of the following terms is defined as an assumption of an "inner" dimension as
the explanation of behavior? - ✔✔Mentalism
✔✔Which of the following terms is defined as an assumption that the universe is a
lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events, not in
accidental fashion? - ✔✔Determinism
✔✔Which term is best described as ruling out simple and logical explanations first,
before considering more complex or abstract explanations? - ✔✔Parsimony
✔✔Which term is used to describe scientist's use of sensory (observable) information to
come to conclusions, rather than preconceived ideas or biases? - ✔✔Empiricism
✔✔This term refers to the view of the world that assumes only the natural world, which
presupposes an absolute truth? - ✔✔Realism
, ✔✔The notion that a question is only worth pursuing if the answer to it would change
our knowledge of the world is known as what? - ✔✔Pragmatism
✔✔The process of controlling variables to determine the effect of the one variable on a
phenomena is known as what? - ✔✔Experimentation
✔✔Which of the following terms describes a behavior under investigation? -
✔✔Dependent Variable
✔✔Which of the following terms describes the intervention used in an investigation to
study its effects on a behavior? - ✔✔Independent Variable
✔✔The term is defined as the method used to confirm efficacy and display reliability of
specific study? - ✔✔Replication
✔✔Which of the following terms refers to demonstrating that the dependent variable
would not change without application of an independent variable? - ✔✔Verification
✔✔Which term describes being able to anticipate how a behavior will occur in the
future? - ✔✔Prediction
✔✔This term refers to a philosophical position in which behavioral events that cannot be
observed are not behaviors? - ✔✔Methodological Behaviorism
✔✔Founded by Skinner, this natural science focuses on studying operant behavior as a
subject matter, using single subject experimental designs rather than group designs, to
measure behavior as a dependent variable. - ✔✔Experimental Analysis of Behavior
✔✔Which term refers to the philosophy of. a science based on observable and
measurable phenomena? - ✔✔Behaviorism
✔✔This is the science in which the principles of behavior are used to improve socially
important behaviors and experimental analysis is used to determine which variables are
responsible for improvement. - ✔✔Applied Behavior Analysis
✔✔Which term is described as a fictitious variable, often another name for an
observable behavior, which implies an inner cause for the behavior? - ✔✔Explanatory
Fiction
✔✔Which term represents Skinner's "far-reaching" and "thoroughgoing" form of
behaviorism that includes both public and private behaviors? - ✔✔Radical Behaviorism
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Which term describes a change in the environment which signals the availability of
reinforcement and that may induce an activity ? - ✔✔Discriminative Stimulus ???
✔✔The term that is described as the relation between a stimulus and the activity it
induces is known as what? - ✔✔Stimulus control
✔✔Which term is known as a verbal discriminative stimulus that signals the availability
of reinforcement and may induce an activity? - ✔✔Rule
✔✔Which term refers to the tendency to tailor behavior about right and wrong or good
and bad to specific situations rather than more generally? - ✔✔Situational Ethics
✔✔ Which of the following terms is defined as an assumption of an "inner" dimension as
the explanation of behavior? - ✔✔Mentalism
✔✔Which of the following terms is defined as an assumption that the universe is a
lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events, not in
accidental fashion? - ✔✔Determinism
✔✔Which term is best described as ruling out simple and logical explanations first,
before considering more complex or abstract explanations? - ✔✔Parsimony
✔✔Which term is used to describe scientist's use of sensory (observable) information to
come to conclusions, rather than preconceived ideas or biases? - ✔✔Empiricism
✔✔This term refers to the view of the world that assumes only the natural world, which
presupposes an absolute truth? - ✔✔Realism
, ✔✔The notion that a question is only worth pursuing if the answer to it would change
our knowledge of the world is known as what? - ✔✔Pragmatism
✔✔The process of controlling variables to determine the effect of the one variable on a
phenomena is known as what? - ✔✔Experimentation
✔✔Which of the following terms describes a behavior under investigation? -
✔✔Dependent Variable
✔✔Which of the following terms describes the intervention used in an investigation to
study its effects on a behavior? - ✔✔Independent Variable
✔✔The term is defined as the method used to confirm efficacy and display reliability of
specific study? - ✔✔Replication
✔✔Which of the following terms refers to demonstrating that the dependent variable
would not change without application of an independent variable? - ✔✔Verification
✔✔Which term describes being able to anticipate how a behavior will occur in the
future? - ✔✔Prediction
✔✔This term refers to a philosophical position in which behavioral events that cannot be
observed are not behaviors? - ✔✔Methodological Behaviorism
✔✔Founded by Skinner, this natural science focuses on studying operant behavior as a
subject matter, using single subject experimental designs rather than group designs, to
measure behavior as a dependent variable. - ✔✔Experimental Analysis of Behavior
✔✔Which term refers to the philosophy of. a science based on observable and
measurable phenomena? - ✔✔Behaviorism
✔✔This is the science in which the principles of behavior are used to improve socially
important behaviors and experimental analysis is used to determine which variables are
responsible for improvement. - ✔✔Applied Behavior Analysis
✔✔Which term is described as a fictitious variable, often another name for an
observable behavior, which implies an inner cause for the behavior? - ✔✔Explanatory
Fiction
✔✔Which term represents Skinner's "far-reaching" and "thoroughgoing" form of
behaviorism that includes both public and private behaviors? - ✔✔Radical Behaviorism
