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ABA - ANSWER a scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those discoveries purpose of science - ANSWER gain a thorough understanding or knowledge about the phenomena under study ABA- tries to understand socially significant behaviors in order to improve behavior psychology- tries to understand the mental processes and behaviors of humans basic characteristics of science - ANSWER science differs from other types of knowledge or ways we obtain knowledge (contemplation, logic, or beliefs) different types of scientific investigations result in knowledge that enables one or more levels of understanding description, prediction, and control are levels of understanding that impact the scientific knowledge of ABA and a given field of science description (first level of understanding) - ANSWER descriptive knowledge: consist of a collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, or examined for possible relations with other known facts frequently result in hypothesis or questions for future research prediction (second level of understanding) - ANSWER prediction: repeated observations reveal that two events consistently covary with each other in the presence of one event, another event occurs or fails to occur with some specified probability correlation: the systematic variation between two events can be used to predict the relative probability of one event occurring based on the presence of another event control (third and highest level of scientific understanding) - ANSWER a functional relation exists when a well controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (dependent variable) can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (independent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors (confounding variables) the understanding gained by the scientific discovery of a functional relation is the basis of applied technologies ABA and the attitude of scientists - ANSWER Skinner considered science as being a set of attitudes science