EDF6226 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED COMPLETE RESOURCE
●● What is correlation?
Answer: A relationship between two variables that can be used to predict
the relative probability that one event will occur, based on the presence
of the other event
●● What are the three levels of scientific understanding?
Answer: Description, prediction, control
●● Dr. Pennypacker made an important distinction that we do not
control behavior, what we do control is the .....
Answer: Environment
●● True or False: Behavior analysts believe that behavior is intrinsic to
the organism
Answer: False - we believe behavior is extrinsic to the organism
●● What is prediction in behavior analysis?
, Answer: The anticipated outcome of presently known or future
measurement. It is the most elegant use of quantification upon which
validation of all scientific and technological activity rests - Pennypacker
●● What is experimental control?
Answer: A predictable change in behavior can be reliably produced by
the systematic manipulation of some aspect of the persons environment
●● What two things make up experimental control?
Answer: Internal validity + external validity
●● What variable is dependent in behavior analysis?
Answer: Behavior
●● What variable is independent in behavior analysis?
Answer: The environmental manipulations
●● What variables do we have to control in order to establish
experimental control?
Answer: Two - independent variables and extraneous variables
●● What type of experimental design involves manipulating the value of
the independent variable?
TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED COMPLETE RESOURCE
●● What is correlation?
Answer: A relationship between two variables that can be used to predict
the relative probability that one event will occur, based on the presence
of the other event
●● What are the three levels of scientific understanding?
Answer: Description, prediction, control
●● Dr. Pennypacker made an important distinction that we do not
control behavior, what we do control is the .....
Answer: Environment
●● True or False: Behavior analysts believe that behavior is intrinsic to
the organism
Answer: False - we believe behavior is extrinsic to the organism
●● What is prediction in behavior analysis?
, Answer: The anticipated outcome of presently known or future
measurement. It is the most elegant use of quantification upon which
validation of all scientific and technological activity rests - Pennypacker
●● What is experimental control?
Answer: A predictable change in behavior can be reliably produced by
the systematic manipulation of some aspect of the persons environment
●● What two things make up experimental control?
Answer: Internal validity + external validity
●● What variable is dependent in behavior analysis?
Answer: Behavior
●● What variable is independent in behavior analysis?
Answer: The environmental manipulations
●● What variables do we have to control in order to establish
experimental control?
Answer: Two - independent variables and extraneous variables
●● What type of experimental design involves manipulating the value of
the independent variable?
