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parsimony - ANSWER look for the simplest explanation possible
what is science? - ANSWER an attempt to discover order, and to display lawful
relations
determinism - ANSWER The universe is a lawful and orderly place
what does it mean to be scientifically skeptical? - ANSWER that assumptions should
not be made until evidence is available
How do you reduce observer bias? - ANSWER by ensuring interobserver agreement
guidelines for gathering evidence - ANSWER - reducing observer bias
- examining experimental control
-replication
- self-correction
what is behaviorism - ANSWER philosophy of the science of human behavior
what does structuralism rely on? - ANSWER introspection
structuralism - ANSWER the science of human behavior permits introspection to
explain the conscious mind
methodological behaviorism - ANSWER A philosophical position that views behavioral
events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science. and relied on
logical positivism
-does not consider private events -came from psychophysical parallelism
psychophysical parallelism - ANSWER -mental events can cause only mental events
-physical events can cause only physical events
What did normand present? - ANSWER -importance of objective, empirical science
, -being skeptical does not equate being cynical: withhold judgement until sufficient
evidence is presented, and examine available evidence before making a decision
Characteristics of pseudoscience - ANSWER -can't be proven false
-anecdotal evidence
how is science self-correcting? - ANSWER through replication
what is the credo of helping professionals? - ANSWER do no harm
explanatory fictions - ANSWER socially approved ways for explaining behavior that
violates parsimony
Classical Behaviorism - ANSWER S-R behavioism that does not account for
consequences or private events
reflex - ANSWER behavior controlled by external agents
who studied conditioned reflexes - ANSWER Pavlov
how did pavlov avoid mentalistic and explanatory fictions? - ANSWER by controlling
conditions that allowed him to show stimuli can be conditioned
evolutionary explanation for reflexes? - ANSWER for survival of the organism
Conditioning can never fashion a _____ - ANSWER novel response
ontogeny - ANSWER -learned beahviors of a particular animal during its lifetime
-O = one
phylogeny - ANSWER behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the
entire species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic? - ANSWER when there is no history of
the behavior
what do genes do? - ANSWER -predispose an individual's susceptibility to influence
from the environment
-genes do not "cause" behavior they set up physical basis for behavior to occur
what does GMI with a mirror do? - ANSWER provides additional feedback required to
receive discriminative control of the model
what did Miller et al. (2015) find? - ANSWER that mirrors do facilitate acquisition of
motor imitation in children with ASD
-mirror serves as a discriminative control for the model