ASU SPE 563 Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest Update 2025-2026
Generativity - Answers The behavior continues
after withdrawal of intervention and
occurs in other settings/situations
Technical - Answers Requires the thorough and accurate description of procedures used in
interventions.
Effective - Answers The intervention is
demonstrated through visual analysis
of data to have produced positive
results
Applied - Answers The intervention must be
applied to socially significant
behaviors requiring change
Conceptual - Answers Intervention must be
based on the principles of behavior,
and to the extent available, empirical
data (literature/research)
Analytic - Answers Demonstrating a functional relation between the intervention and
the behavior; demonstration of control
of the behavior by the intervention
Behavioral - Answers Must be observable and
measurable
Pragmatism - Answers The notion that a question is only worth pursuing if the answer to it
would change our knowledge of the world
Determinism - Answers The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which
phenomena occur in relation to other events, not in accidental fashion
, • There are ALWAYS causes of behavior - Cause and Effect
• All actions are the result of heredity or environmental factors.
• No instance of behavior occurs without a physical cause
• In behavior analysis we focus on the environmental impact on
organisms, both the antecedents and consequences
Realism - Answers The view of the world that assumes only the natural world, which
presupposes an absolute truth
"view of the world that assumes a real world to exist apart from our
perceptions" (Baum 2017, p. 288).
Mentalism - Answers An assumption of an "inner" dimension as the explanation of behavior
Describing behavior as having non-physical, mental cause; a 'belief'
Explanatory Fiction - Answers A fictitious variable, often another name for an observable
behavior,
which implies an inner cause for the behavior
mental events used to explain behavior
Example: Low self-esteem
Public Event - Answers An event observed by another person
• Walking across the street
• Eating lunch
Private Event - Answers An event that can only be observed and verified by the individual
performing the behavior
• Thinking - An individual's personal thoughts - 'talking to yourself'
Natural Event - Answers An event that is locatable in time and space in the natural world
• Explained by other natural events
Experimental analysis of behavior - Answers founded by skinner, this is the natural science that
focuses on studying operant behavior as a subject matter, using single subject experimental
designs rather than group designs, to measure behavior as a dependent variable.
Generativity - Answers The behavior continues
after withdrawal of intervention and
occurs in other settings/situations
Technical - Answers Requires the thorough and accurate description of procedures used in
interventions.
Effective - Answers The intervention is
demonstrated through visual analysis
of data to have produced positive
results
Applied - Answers The intervention must be
applied to socially significant
behaviors requiring change
Conceptual - Answers Intervention must be
based on the principles of behavior,
and to the extent available, empirical
data (literature/research)
Analytic - Answers Demonstrating a functional relation between the intervention and
the behavior; demonstration of control
of the behavior by the intervention
Behavioral - Answers Must be observable and
measurable
Pragmatism - Answers The notion that a question is only worth pursuing if the answer to it
would change our knowledge of the world
Determinism - Answers The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which
phenomena occur in relation to other events, not in accidental fashion
, • There are ALWAYS causes of behavior - Cause and Effect
• All actions are the result of heredity or environmental factors.
• No instance of behavior occurs without a physical cause
• In behavior analysis we focus on the environmental impact on
organisms, both the antecedents and consequences
Realism - Answers The view of the world that assumes only the natural world, which
presupposes an absolute truth
"view of the world that assumes a real world to exist apart from our
perceptions" (Baum 2017, p. 288).
Mentalism - Answers An assumption of an "inner" dimension as the explanation of behavior
Describing behavior as having non-physical, mental cause; a 'belief'
Explanatory Fiction - Answers A fictitious variable, often another name for an observable
behavior,
which implies an inner cause for the behavior
mental events used to explain behavior
Example: Low self-esteem
Public Event - Answers An event observed by another person
• Walking across the street
• Eating lunch
Private Event - Answers An event that can only be observed and verified by the individual
performing the behavior
• Thinking - An individual's personal thoughts - 'talking to yourself'
Natural Event - Answers An event that is locatable in time and space in the natural world
• Explained by other natural events
Experimental analysis of behavior - Answers founded by skinner, this is the natural science that
focuses on studying operant behavior as a subject matter, using single subject experimental
designs rather than group designs, to measure behavior as a dependent variable.
