EDF FINAL PAPER 2026 STUDY GUIDE DETAILED
ANSWERS READY
◉ The practice of objective aberration of the phenomena of interest
Answer: Empiricism
◉ All scientific knowledge is built upon
Answer: Empiricism
◉ Controlled comparison of some measure of phenomena of interest
(dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in
which only one factor at a time (independent variable) differs from
one condition to another.
Answer: Experiment
◉ The repeating of an experiment. How scientists determine the
reliability and usefulness of their experiments. Can be within an
experiment or across experiments.
Answer: Replication
◉ All simple explanations are ruled out before more complex or
abstract explanations are considered.
,Answer: Parsimony
◉ The continuous questioning of the truthfulness and validity of all
scientific theory and knowledge
Answer: Philosophic doubt
◉ A systematic approach to the understanding of natural
phenomena as evidenced by description, prediction, and control that
relies on determinism as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as
its prime directive, experimentation as its basic strategy, replication
as its necessary requirement for believability, parsimony as its
conservative value, and philosophic doubt as its guiding conscience.
Answer: Definition of science
◉ Does basic research
Answer: Experimental analysis of behavior (EAB)
◉ Develops technology to improve behavior. Understood through
EAB and behaviorism.
Answer: Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
◉ Psychology in the early 1900's was dominated with the study of....
Answer: states of consciousness, images, and other mental processes
, ◉ "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" article
Answer: John B. Watson
◉ Observable behavior and S-R Psychology
Answer: John B. Watson
◉ Foundation for the study of behavior as a natural science. Argued
that subject matter for psychology should be the study of observable
behavior, not states of mind or mental processes.
Answer: John B. Watson
◉ The behavior of the organsim
Answer: Skinner
◉ Respondents are elicited ("brought out") by stimuli that
immediately precede them. Involuntary responses. Occur whenever
eliciting stimulus is present. S-R model.
Answer: Respondent 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 through the
behavior in the past.
Answer: Operant behavior
ANSWERS READY
◉ The practice of objective aberration of the phenomena of interest
Answer: Empiricism
◉ All scientific knowledge is built upon
Answer: Empiricism
◉ Controlled comparison of some measure of phenomena of interest
(dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in
which only one factor at a time (independent variable) differs from
one condition to another.
Answer: Experiment
◉ The repeating of an experiment. How scientists determine the
reliability and usefulness of their experiments. Can be within an
experiment or across experiments.
Answer: Replication
◉ All simple explanations are ruled out before more complex or
abstract explanations are considered.
,Answer: Parsimony
◉ The continuous questioning of the truthfulness and validity of all
scientific theory and knowledge
Answer: Philosophic doubt
◉ A systematic approach to the understanding of natural
phenomena as evidenced by description, prediction, and control that
relies on determinism as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as
its prime directive, experimentation as its basic strategy, replication
as its necessary requirement for believability, parsimony as its
conservative value, and philosophic doubt as its guiding conscience.
Answer: Definition of science
◉ Does basic research
Answer: Experimental analysis of behavior (EAB)
◉ Develops technology to improve behavior. Understood through
EAB and behaviorism.
Answer: Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
◉ Psychology in the early 1900's was dominated with the study of....
Answer: states of consciousness, images, and other mental processes
, ◉ "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" article
Answer: John B. Watson
◉ Observable behavior and S-R Psychology
Answer: John B. Watson
◉ Foundation for the study of behavior as a natural science. Argued
that subject matter for psychology should be the study of observable
behavior, not states of mind or mental processes.
Answer: John B. Watson
◉ The behavior of the organsim
Answer: Skinner
◉ Respondents are elicited ("brought out") by stimuli that
immediately precede them. Involuntary responses. Occur whenever
eliciting stimulus is present. S-R model.
Answer: Respondent 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 through the
behavior in the past.
Answer: Operant behavior
