EDF 6225 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS FREQUENTLY MOST TESTED QUESTIONS 2025

The word science refers to a - -systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world The standard calibration chart is the only standardized form of data ________ in our science. - -measurement The behavior analyst certification board (bacb) is the single governing body for professionals in the field of ______ - -applied behavioral analysis The bacb was established in ______ to provide certification to professionals in an effort to establish minimum criteria to be a reactionary in the field. - -1998 Safmeds stands for - -say all fast a minute each day shuffled Who created safmeds - -dr. Ogden lindsley 3 levels of understanding - -description, prediction, control Description - -consist of a collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, or examined for possible relations with other known facts. Prediction - -relative probability that when one event occurs, another event will or will not occur Control - -highest level of understanding Functional relations can be derived When a systematic covariation occurs between two events, we are able to predict the probability that one event will occur in conjunction with the other event. This is called________ - -correlation _______________studies produce a collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts. - -descriptive Manipulating one event (the independent variable) in order to produce a reliable change in another event (the dependent variable), and the change in the dependent variable is EDF 6225 EDF 6225 not likely due to other extraneous factors (known as confounding variables). This relationship is referred to as a_______ - -functional relationship A _______________is demonstrated when we _______________ the independent variable and see a _______________ in the dependent variable and that change is not likely due to _______________. - -functional relationship, manipulate, change, extraneous variables Dependent variable - -the event in which we observe change Independent variable - -the event in which we manipulate The "behavior" we wish to change in behavior analysis is known as the - -dependent variable The "intervention" we employ in behavior analysis is known as the - -independent variable When we apply an intervention, we are manipulating the _______________. The change we see in the target behavior is known as the ______ - -iv, dv _______________ is the assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur as a result of other events. _______________ is the objective observation of the phenomena of interest. _______________ is the repeating of experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness of the findings. - -determinism, empiricism, replication Determinism - -the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occurs as the result of other events. Free will - -the idea that human beings are free to make their own choices Accidentalism - -a philosophical position antithetical to determinism that holds that events occur by accident or without cause Fatalism - -the belief that all events are determined in advance by fate and cannot be changed by human means Can accidentalism and fatalism occur concurrently with determinism? - -no Empiricism - -the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest What is all scientific knowledge based on? - -empiricism EDF 6225 EDF 6225 Experimentation - -the controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest (dv) under two or more different conditions in which only 1 factor at a time (iv) differs from one condition to another Replication - -the repeating of an experiment How do scientists determine the reliability and usefulness of their experiments? - replication Parsimony - -all simple & logical explanations must be ruled out first before complex or abstract explanations are considered Philosophic doubt - -continually questioning the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge. Three branches of behavior analysis - -behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, and applied behavior analysis Behaviorism - -the philosophy of the science of behavior Experimental analysis of behavior (eab) - -the natural science approach for discovering orderly and reliable relations between behavior and various type of environmental variables of which is the function. Aba facts - -1. Does basic research 2. Founded by skinner 3. The behavior of the organism 4. Operant vs. Respondent Aba facts - -1. John b. Watson 2. Observable behavior 3. Foundation for the study of behavior 4. "psychology as the behaviorist views it' What was established by baer, wolf, and risley (1968) with seven guiding dimensions? - -aba Respondent behavior (reflexive behavior) - -1. S-r model 2. Ivan pavlov 3. Involuntary response Operant behavior - -1. S-r-s model 2. Behavior is shaped through the consequences that immediately follow 3. Three term contingency (a,b.c) EDF 6225 EDF 6225 Radical behaviorism - -attempts to explain all behavior, including private events such as thinking and feeling Radical behaviorism facts - -1. Skinner 2. Makes 3 assumptions about the nature of private events 3. Far-reaching and thoroughgoing 4. Includes and seeks to understand all human behavior Methodological behaviorism - -philosophical position that considers behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed outside the realm of science. These two are drastically different. In the early 1900's the struggling field of psychology was based on introspection and states of _______________, relying on case studies to document work. - consciousness Fuller (1949) - --one of the first studies to report the human application of operant behavior -participant: 18-year-old boy with profound mental retardation -arm-raising response was conditioned by injecting a small amount of a warm sugar milk solution into participant's mouth every time he moved his right arm Ayllon and micheal (1959) - --psychriatric nurse as behavioral engineer - formed basis of aba B.f. Skinner is credited with developing what watson previously described into the actual science of behavior by conducting thousands of e that demonstrated orderly and reliable relationships between behavior and the _______________. - -environment B.f. Skinners work of the actual science of behavior was published in the _______________ (1938/1966) and should be added to every behavior analyst's library. - -behavior of organisms In the 1960's researchers began to apply principles of behavior in an effort to improve socially important behavior; however, - -techniques for measuring behavior was unavailable/ inappropriate Jaba - -1. 1st journal in us with applied problems 2. "some current dimensions of aba" Founding fathers of aba - -baer, wolf, and risley 7 dimensions of aba - -batcage Behavioral Applied EDF 6225 EDF 6225 Technological Conceptually systematic Analytical Generality Effective Applied - -investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject(s). Behavioral - -precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement & documents that it was the participant's behavior that changed _______________ is the dimension in which we are certain that we n