UWF EDF 6225 EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔respondent behavior - ✔✔◦Reflexive behavior
◦Ivan Pavlov (1927)
◦Respondents are elicited ("brought out") by stimuli that immediately precede them
◦Antecedent stimulus & response it elicits form a functional unit called a reflex
◦Involuntary responses
◦Occur whenever eliciting stimulus is present
◦S-R model
✔✔operant behavior - ✔✔◦Behavior is shaped through the consequences that
immediately follow it
◦Three term contingency
◦S-R-S model
◦Behaviors that are influenced by stimulus changes that have followed the behavior in
the past
✔✔EAB outlined specific methodology for its practice - ✔✔- The rate or frequency of
response is the most common dependent variable
- Repeated or continuous measurement is made of carefully defined response classes
- Within-subject experimental comparisons are used instead of designs comparing the
behavior of experimental & control groups
- Visual analysis of graphed data is preferred over statistical inference
- A description of functional relations is valued over formal theory testing
✔✔radical behaviorism - ✔✔Attempts to explain all behavior, including private behavior
(e.g. thinking & feeling
✔✔methodological behaviorism - ✔✔A philosophical position that views behavioral
events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science.
, ✔✔mentalism - ✔✔◦Approach to understanding behavior that assumes that a mental or
"inner" dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension & that phenomena in
this dimension either directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior
◦Relies on hypothetical constructs and explanatory fictions
◦Dominated Western intellectual thought & most psychological theories (e.g. Descartes,
Freud, Piaget)
✔✔mentalism relies on - ✔✔◦the premise of explanatory fiction (e.g. "knowledge")
- A fictitious variable that often is simply another name for the observed behavior that
contributes nothing to an understanding for the variables responsible for developing (or
maintaining) the behavior
Circular view of the cause & effect
✔✔structuralism - ✔✔◦Rejects all events that are not operationally defined by objective
assessment
◦Restrict activities to descriptions of behavior
◦Make no scientific manipulations; do not address causal questions
✔✔methodological behaviorism rejects - ✔✔all events that are not operationally defined
by objective assessment
- Deny existence of "inner variables" or consider them outside the realm of scientific
account
- Acknowledge the existence of mental events but do not consider them in the analysis
of behavior
◦Use scientific manipulations to search for functional relationships between events
◦Restrictive view since it ignores major areas of importance
✔✔3 assumptions of radical behaviorism - ✔✔◦Private events such as thoughts and
feelings are behavior
◦Behavior that takes place within the skin is distinguished from other ("public") behavior
only by its inaccessibility
◦Private behavior has no special properties & is influenced by (i.e. is a function of) the
same kinds of variables as publicly accessible behavior
✔✔radical behaviorism seeks to - ✔✔understand all human behavior
✔✔radical behaviorism is - ✔✔far-reaching and thoroughgoing
- ◦Dramatic departure from other conceptual systems
✔✔Fuller (1949) - ✔✔◦One of the first studies to report the human application of operant
behavior
◦Participant: 18-year-old boy with profound mental retardation
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔respondent behavior - ✔✔◦Reflexive behavior
◦Ivan Pavlov (1927)
◦Respondents are elicited ("brought out") by stimuli that immediately precede them
◦Antecedent stimulus & response it elicits form a functional unit called a reflex
◦Involuntary responses
◦Occur whenever eliciting stimulus is present
◦S-R model
✔✔operant behavior - ✔✔◦Behavior is shaped through the consequences that
immediately follow it
◦Three term contingency
◦S-R-S model
◦Behaviors that are influenced by stimulus changes that have followed the behavior in
the past
✔✔EAB outlined specific methodology for its practice - ✔✔- The rate or frequency of
response is the most common dependent variable
- Repeated or continuous measurement is made of carefully defined response classes
- Within-subject experimental comparisons are used instead of designs comparing the
behavior of experimental & control groups
- Visual analysis of graphed data is preferred over statistical inference
- A description of functional relations is valued over formal theory testing
✔✔radical behaviorism - ✔✔Attempts to explain all behavior, including private behavior
(e.g. thinking & feeling
✔✔methodological behaviorism - ✔✔A philosophical position that views behavioral
events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science.
, ✔✔mentalism - ✔✔◦Approach to understanding behavior that assumes that a mental or
"inner" dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension & that phenomena in
this dimension either directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior
◦Relies on hypothetical constructs and explanatory fictions
◦Dominated Western intellectual thought & most psychological theories (e.g. Descartes,
Freud, Piaget)
✔✔mentalism relies on - ✔✔◦the premise of explanatory fiction (e.g. "knowledge")
- A fictitious variable that often is simply another name for the observed behavior that
contributes nothing to an understanding for the variables responsible for developing (or
maintaining) the behavior
Circular view of the cause & effect
✔✔structuralism - ✔✔◦Rejects all events that are not operationally defined by objective
assessment
◦Restrict activities to descriptions of behavior
◦Make no scientific manipulations; do not address causal questions
✔✔methodological behaviorism rejects - ✔✔all events that are not operationally defined
by objective assessment
- Deny existence of "inner variables" or consider them outside the realm of scientific
account
- Acknowledge the existence of mental events but do not consider them in the analysis
of behavior
◦Use scientific manipulations to search for functional relationships between events
◦Restrictive view since it ignores major areas of importance
✔✔3 assumptions of radical behaviorism - ✔✔◦Private events such as thoughts and
feelings are behavior
◦Behavior that takes place within the skin is distinguished from other ("public") behavior
only by its inaccessibility
◦Private behavior has no special properties & is influenced by (i.e. is a function of) the
same kinds of variables as publicly accessible behavior
✔✔radical behaviorism seeks to - ✔✔understand all human behavior
✔✔radical behaviorism is - ✔✔far-reaching and thoroughgoing
- ◦Dramatic departure from other conceptual systems
✔✔Fuller (1949) - ✔✔◦One of the first studies to report the human application of operant
behavior
◦Participant: 18-year-old boy with profound mental retardation
