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SPCE 611; Sections 1 -2 Study guide for Exam
1. Questions with Correct Answers | Updated
(100% Correct Answers)
To fully understand the phenomena being studied. Answer: What is
the goal of science?
Determinism. Answer: Events are related in systematic ways to other
factors.
Behavior. Answer: An organism's interaction with the environment
that's characterized by a displacement of space through time that
results in a change in at least one part of the environment.
EX: Picking up a pencil from the ground.
Applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic,
effective, and generality. Answer: What are the dimensions of ABA?
Response and response class. Answer: Action of an organism's
effector. EX: A smile.
A group of responses with the same function. EX: Opening a bag.
Stimulus and stimulus class. Answer: An energy change that affects
an organism through its receptor cells.
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A group of stimuli with predetermined set of common elements in
one or more dimension.
Positive reinforcement. Answer: Behavior increases in the future
when something is added. EX: Student gets a sticker after finishing
homework.
Negative reinforcement. Answer: Behavior increases in the future
when something is taken away.
EX: Putting your seat belt on [the beep goes away].
Conditioned and unconditioned reinforcement. Answer:
Conditioned: Paired with event after behavior...can be reinforcing or
punisher. EX: Student gets in trouble and peers laugh, so student
continues to get in trouble to make others laugh [attention].
Unconditioned: Can increase future freq of beh. without pairing EX:
Food
Positive punishment. Answer: Something added to decrease
behavior in the future.
EX: Teacher calls on student to answer question. Student does not
participate in other classes due to attention.
Negative punishment Answer: Something taken away to decrease
behavior in the future.
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SPCE 611; Sections 1 -2 Study guide for Exam
1. Questions with Correct Answers | Updated
(100% Correct Answers)
To fully understand the phenomena being studied. Answer: What is
the goal of science?
Determinism. Answer: Events are related in systematic ways to other
factors.
Behavior. Answer: An organism's interaction with the environment
that's characterized by a displacement of space through time that
results in a change in at least one part of the environment.
EX: Picking up a pencil from the ground.
Applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic,
effective, and generality. Answer: What are the dimensions of ABA?
Response and response class. Answer: Action of an organism's
effector. EX: A smile.
A group of responses with the same function. EX: Opening a bag.
Stimulus and stimulus class. Answer: An energy change that affects
an organism through its receptor cells.
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A group of stimuli with predetermined set of common elements in
one or more dimension.
Positive reinforcement. Answer: Behavior increases in the future
when something is added. EX: Student gets a sticker after finishing
homework.
Negative reinforcement. Answer: Behavior increases in the future
when something is taken away.
EX: Putting your seat belt on [the beep goes away].
Conditioned and unconditioned reinforcement. Answer:
Conditioned: Paired with event after behavior...can be reinforcing or
punisher. EX: Student gets in trouble and peers laugh, so student
continues to get in trouble to make others laugh [attention].
Unconditioned: Can increase future freq of beh. without pairing EX:
Food
Positive punishment. Answer: Something added to decrease
behavior in the future.
EX: Teacher calls on student to answer question. Student does not
participate in other classes due to attention.
Negative punishment Answer: Something taken away to decrease
behavior in the future.
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