SPCE 630 EXAM LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 55 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

SPCE 630 EXAM LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 55 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS What are the 3 indicators of "trustworthy" measurement? - CORRECT ANSWER Validity, accuracy, and reliability. What is the goal of behavioral research? - CORRECT ANSWER to demonstrate that measured changed in the target behavior occur because of experimentally manipulated changes in the environment Confounding Variables - CORRECT ANSWER uncontrolled factors that are known or suspected of influencing a study, and thereby threaten its internal validity Two basic categories of designs - CORRECT ANSWER group design and single-subject design characteristics of single Subject design - CORRECT ANSWER repeated measurement of DV, individual performance across different conditions, participant is own control, clinically significant change, baseline performance, intervention condition, generality, graphs Strengths of single subject design - CORRECT ANSWER reduces number of subjects needed, day-to-day monitoring of data, highlights the importance of learning history, can be used in clinical settings to assess treatment weaknesses of single subject design - CORRECT ANSWER time and labor intensive, difficult to design when history is factor, not amenable to traditional inferential statistics, demonstrates social significance, show variability in behavior of individual (analyzing what groups will do does not necessarily indicate what individual will do) Measurement - CORRECT ANSWER process of applying quantitative labels to observed properties of events using a standard set of rules Why do we need measurement? - CORRECT ANSWER guide decision making, evaluate effects of intervention, prevent mistakes response - CORRECT ANSWER single instance of any class of behavioral events Most important component of measurement - CORRECT ANSWER definition functional response class definition - CORRECT ANSWER relationship between the behavior and its antecedents and consequences