EDF 6222 Final Questions and Answers |
2026 Final Review Practice Pack | Grade A+
• While some methodological behaviorists accept that there are mental states, they
have ruled them completely out of consideration. This is not a new concept and
was once referred to as _____ -✓✓Psychophysical Parallelism
• Behaviorism might be thought of as a psychological version of logical positivism
or operationism is _____ -✓✓Methodological
• Structuralism relied on _____ which looked inward to describe sensations,
images, and feelings -✓✓Introspection
• "Behaviorism is not the science of human behavior, it is the ______ of that
science" -✓✓Philosophy
• In order to be excellent stewards of science, as behavior analysts, we can follow a
few guidelines when gathering and evaluating evidence. This includes reducing
________ by ensuring IOA, examining for actual ____, _____, and self-correction
-✓✓Bias. Evidence, Replication
• Being scientifically skeptical meant that until there is available ______
assumptions should not be made -✓✓Evidence
• "_____ is more than the mere description of events as they occur. It is an attempt
to discover order, to show that certain events stand in ____ to other events" -
✓✓Science, Lawful relations
,• In Pavlov's early research, he did not jump to conclusions to suggest that the dog
was 'thinking' of food, and therefore salivating. Instead, he carefully controlled
conditions that allowed him to show that particular stimuli can 'acquire' the ability
to elicit secretion. His careful analysis of the scientific method allowed him to
avoid both ___ and _____ fiction -✓✓Mentalistic, Explanatory
• The evolutionary explanation for reflexes indicates that they are for the survival
of the organism. However, we know all too well that sometimes responses can be
conditioned that serve no purpose- even add a _____ purpose - to our complex
lives -✓✓Debilitating
• Skinner informed us 'although the process of ___ greatly extends the cope of the
eliciting stimulus, it does not bring all of the behavior of the organism within such
_______. Conditioning can add numerous different eliciting stimuli, but will never
fashion a ____ response -✓✓Conditioning, Stimulus control, Novel
• According to Skinner, contingencies of reinforcement have an edge over
contingencies of survival because contingencies of reinforcement "Have the edge
with ____ and ______ and the conditions under which a species acquires behavior
are relatively ____ and can often be manipulated" -✓✓Prediction, Control,
Accessible
• Is the learned behaviors of a particular animal during its lifetime -✓✓Ontogeny
• Is behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire species -
✓✓Phylogeny
• It can be difficult to distinguish between ontogenetic and phylogenic established
behaviors. For a person viewing a complex ___ for the first time, it may seem
mysterious. But each step of the chain can be traced back to the shaping process.
, Just because the shaping process was not observed, it does not mean that it was not
______. However when we view a spider spin a web, "no comparable history can
be invoked" to determine the phylogenic contingencies at work. -✓✓Chain,
Learned
• Moore stated ____ predispose an individuals susceptibility to influence from the
____ we must be careful not to assert that genes ______ behavior -✓✓Genes,
Environment, Cause
• Imitative responses necessarily require the learner to orient toward the ___ rather
than the topographical correspondence of their behavior with respect to the model
-✓✓Model
• The use of the mirror provides the additional feedback required to receive ____
of the model -✓✓Discriminative control
• The most substantial origins of our understanding of operant behavior derived
from Darwin's controversial idea that humans were not unique in their ability to
_____ -✓✓Think
• Thorndike's ____ succinctly explained that organisms tend to learn new things
when behaviors are followed by ____ stimuli and that behaviors tend to ___ when
followed by negative stimuli -✓✓Law of effect, Pleasant, Decrease
• Being scientifically skeptical means that until there is available ______
assumptions should not be made -✓✓Evidence
• More stated ____ predispose an individual's susceptibility to influence from the
____. We must be careful not to assert that genes ____ behavior, rather they set up
2026 Final Review Practice Pack | Grade A+
• While some methodological behaviorists accept that there are mental states, they
have ruled them completely out of consideration. This is not a new concept and
was once referred to as _____ -✓✓Psychophysical Parallelism
• Behaviorism might be thought of as a psychological version of logical positivism
or operationism is _____ -✓✓Methodological
• Structuralism relied on _____ which looked inward to describe sensations,
images, and feelings -✓✓Introspection
• "Behaviorism is not the science of human behavior, it is the ______ of that
science" -✓✓Philosophy
• In order to be excellent stewards of science, as behavior analysts, we can follow a
few guidelines when gathering and evaluating evidence. This includes reducing
________ by ensuring IOA, examining for actual ____, _____, and self-correction
-✓✓Bias. Evidence, Replication
• Being scientifically skeptical meant that until there is available ______
assumptions should not be made -✓✓Evidence
• "_____ is more than the mere description of events as they occur. It is an attempt
to discover order, to show that certain events stand in ____ to other events" -
✓✓Science, Lawful relations
,• In Pavlov's early research, he did not jump to conclusions to suggest that the dog
was 'thinking' of food, and therefore salivating. Instead, he carefully controlled
conditions that allowed him to show that particular stimuli can 'acquire' the ability
to elicit secretion. His careful analysis of the scientific method allowed him to
avoid both ___ and _____ fiction -✓✓Mentalistic, Explanatory
• The evolutionary explanation for reflexes indicates that they are for the survival
of the organism. However, we know all too well that sometimes responses can be
conditioned that serve no purpose- even add a _____ purpose - to our complex
lives -✓✓Debilitating
• Skinner informed us 'although the process of ___ greatly extends the cope of the
eliciting stimulus, it does not bring all of the behavior of the organism within such
_______. Conditioning can add numerous different eliciting stimuli, but will never
fashion a ____ response -✓✓Conditioning, Stimulus control, Novel
• According to Skinner, contingencies of reinforcement have an edge over
contingencies of survival because contingencies of reinforcement "Have the edge
with ____ and ______ and the conditions under which a species acquires behavior
are relatively ____ and can often be manipulated" -✓✓Prediction, Control,
Accessible
• Is the learned behaviors of a particular animal during its lifetime -✓✓Ontogeny
• Is behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire species -
✓✓Phylogeny
• It can be difficult to distinguish between ontogenetic and phylogenic established
behaviors. For a person viewing a complex ___ for the first time, it may seem
mysterious. But each step of the chain can be traced back to the shaping process.
, Just because the shaping process was not observed, it does not mean that it was not
______. However when we view a spider spin a web, "no comparable history can
be invoked" to determine the phylogenic contingencies at work. -✓✓Chain,
Learned
• Moore stated ____ predispose an individuals susceptibility to influence from the
____ we must be careful not to assert that genes ______ behavior -✓✓Genes,
Environment, Cause
• Imitative responses necessarily require the learner to orient toward the ___ rather
than the topographical correspondence of their behavior with respect to the model
-✓✓Model
• The use of the mirror provides the additional feedback required to receive ____
of the model -✓✓Discriminative control
• The most substantial origins of our understanding of operant behavior derived
from Darwin's controversial idea that humans were not unique in their ability to
_____ -✓✓Think
• Thorndike's ____ succinctly explained that organisms tend to learn new things
when behaviors are followed by ____ stimuli and that behaviors tend to ___ when
followed by negative stimuli -✓✓Law of effect, Pleasant, Decrease
• Being scientifically skeptical means that until there is available ______
assumptions should not be made -✓✓Evidence
• More stated ____ predispose an individual's susceptibility to influence from the
____. We must be careful not to assert that genes ____ behavior, rather they set up
