Week 1 SAFMEDS Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions Graded A+

analytic - demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior—that is, if a functional relation is demonstrated. applied - The behavior targeted for change must be socially significant behavior that will improve the person's life. applied behavioral analysis - improving socially significant behaviors using a systematic approach behavioral - precise measurement of observed behavior conceptually systematic - behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior control - manipulation of independent variable to produce reliable change in a dependent variable that is unlikely the result of extraneous variables dependent variable - the variable that changes as a result of the independent variable (ex: behavior) 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. determinism - the philosophy that phenomena occur because of other events that evoke it - the universe is lawful effective - changes to target behavior are noticeable empiricism - Objective observation with thorough description and quantification of the phenomena of interest, behaviorExperimental Analysis of Behavior - Basic research - founded by Skinner experimentation - the controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest (the dependent variable) under two or more different conditions