SPCE 619 FINAL STUDY GUIDE
Applied Behavioral Analysis - Answers :Scientific approach for discovering
environmental variable that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for
developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those
strategies.
The Purpose of scientific: - Answers :To gain a thorough understanding or knowledge
about the phenomena under study
Levels of Understanding Science - Answers :Description, prediction, and control
Description - Answers :A collection of facts about the observed evens that can be
quantified, classified, or examined for possible relations
Prediction - Answers :Repeated observations reveal that two evens consistently covary
with each other
Control - Answers :Reveals that a specific change in one event can reliably be produced
by specific manipulations of another evens
Assumptions Underlying ABA - Answers :1. Determinism
2Empiricism
3. Experimentation
4. Replication
5. Parsimony
6. Philosophic Doubt
Determinism - Answers :Universe is a lawful and orderly place in which everything
happens because of something else
Empiricism - Answers :The practice of objective observation of the thing at interest
Experimentation - Answers :The controlled comparison of some measure of the
phenomenon of interest under two or more different conditions
Replication - Answers :Repeating experiments to determine the reliability and
usefulness of findings
Parsimony - Answers :Simple, logical explanations must be ruled out before more
complex or abstract explanations.
Philosophic Doubt - Answers :Continually questioning the truthfulness and validity of all
scientific theory and knowledge
Applied - Answers :Looks at socially significant behaviors
Applied Behavioral Analysis - Answers :Scientific approach for discovering
environmental variable that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for
developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those
strategies.
The Purpose of scientific: - Answers :To gain a thorough understanding or knowledge
about the phenomena under study
Levels of Understanding Science - Answers :Description, prediction, and control
Description - Answers :A collection of facts about the observed evens that can be
quantified, classified, or examined for possible relations
Prediction - Answers :Repeated observations reveal that two evens consistently covary
with each other
Control - Answers :Reveals that a specific change in one event can reliably be produced
by specific manipulations of another evens
Assumptions Underlying ABA - Answers :1. Determinism
2Empiricism
3. Experimentation
4. Replication
5. Parsimony
6. Philosophic Doubt
Determinism - Answers :Universe is a lawful and orderly place in which everything
happens because of something else
Empiricism - Answers :The practice of objective observation of the thing at interest
Experimentation - Answers :The controlled comparison of some measure of the
phenomenon of interest under two or more different conditions
Replication - Answers :Repeating experiments to determine the reliability and
usefulness of findings
Parsimony - Answers :Simple, logical explanations must be ruled out before more
complex or abstract explanations.
Philosophic Doubt - Answers :Continually questioning the truthfulness and validity of all
scientific theory and knowledge
Applied - Answers :Looks at socially significant behaviors
