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EDF 6222 Exam 1 & 2parsimony - ANS look for the simplest explanation possible
What is science? - ANS an attempt to discover order, and to display lawful relations
determinism - ANS The universe is a lawful and orderly place
What does it mean to be scientifically skeptical? - ANS that assumptions should not be made
until evidence is available
How do you reduce observer bias? - ANS by ensuring interobserver agreement
guidelines for gathering evidence - ANS - reducing observer bias
- examining experimental control
-replication
- self-correction
what is behaviorism - ANS philosophy of the science of human behavior
what does structuralism rely on? - ANS introspection
structuralism - ANS the science of human behavior permits introspection to explain the
conscious mind
methodological behaviorism - ANS 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 - ANS -mental events can cause only mental events
-physical events can cause only physical events
What did normand present? - ANS -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 - ANS -can't be proven false
-anecdotal evidence
how is science self-correcting? - ANS through replication
what is the credo of helping professionals? - ANS do no harm
, explanatory fictions - ANS socially approved ways for explaining behavior that violates
parsimony
Classical Behaviorism - ANS S-R behavioism that does not account for consequences or private
events
reflex - ANS behavior controlled by external agents
who studied conditioned reflexes - ANS Pavlov
how did pavlov avoid mentalistic and explanatory fictions? - ANS by controlling conditions that
allowed him to show stimuli can be conditioned
evolutionary explanation for reflexes? - ANS for survival of the organism
Conditioning can never fashion a _____ - ANS novel response
ontogeny - ANS -learned beahviors of a particular animal during its lifetime
-O = one
phylogeny - ANS behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic? - ANS when there is no history of the behavior
what do genes do? - ANS -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? - ANS provides additional feedback required to receive
discriminative control of the model
what did Miller et al. (2015) find? - ANS that mirrors do facilitate acquisition of motor imitation in
children with ASD
-mirror serves as a discriminative control for the model
What did - ANS
where does our understanding of operant behavior originate from? - ANS Darwin's controversial
idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create? - ANS Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
-organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant things and vice versa
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