EDF6225 final Exam Questions and Answers

BF Skinner - Answer- in preparation for the BCAB certification exam, please know that the material is based on the work of _____________ Standard Celeration Chart - Answer- only standardized form of data measurement in our science Dr Ogden Lindsey - Answer- coined the term SAFMEDS circa 1980 to refer to the cards and how to best use them for learning SAFMEDS - Answer- Say All Fast Minute Every Day Shuffle Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) - Answer- - single governing body for professionals in the field of behavior analysis - established in 1998 to provide certification to professionals in an effort to establish minimum criteria to be a reactionary science - Answer- a systematic approach fro seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world Three levels of understanding - Answer- description, prediction, control descriptive - Answer- studies that produce a collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts correlation - Answer- when a systematic co-variation occurs between two events, we are able to predict the probability that one event will occur in conjunction with the other event control - Answer- - highest level of scientific understanding - specifically manipulate one event in order to produce a reliable change in another event independent variable - Answer- The factor that is manipulated; variable whose effect is being studied dependent variable - Answer- The outcome factor in which we observe change; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable Functional Relation - Answer- when one event is specifically manipulated in order to produce a reliable change in another event, and the change in the dependent variable in not likely due to other extraneous factors (confounding variables) dependent variable - Answer- - the "behavior" we wish to change - the change we see in target bx independent variable - Answer- - the "intervention" we employ - the stimuli we manipulate Functional Relation - Answer- when we manipulate the independent variable and see a change in the dependent variable and that change is not likely due to confounding variables determinism - Answer- assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur as a result of other events Empiricism - Answer- The objective observation of the phenomena of interest Replication - Answer- repeating of experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness of the findings parsimony - Answer- considers the simplest , most logical explanation of a phenomenon before more complex explanations are considered 3 major branches of behavior analysis - Answer- Behaviorism Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Experimental Analysis of Behavior - Answer- natural science approach for discovering orderly and reliable relations between behaviors and various types of environmental variables of which it functions. Behaviorism - Answer- the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - Answer- established by Bear, Wolf, and Risley in 1968 with 7 guiding dimentions