SPCE 611 Exam 1 Questions and
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ABA - ANSWER-A science devoted to understanding and improving human behavior
Science - ANSWER-A systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge
about the natural world
Description - ANSWER-Systematics observation enhances the understanding of a given
phenomena by enabling scientists to describe it accurately
Prediction - ANSWER-Occurs when repeatable observations reveal that two events
consistently covary with each other
Control - ANSWER-Third level of understanding of science, being able to control the
variables
Determinism - ANSWER-Science is predicated in this assumption, it is assumed that
the universe is a lawful and orderly place
Empiricism - ANSWER-The practice of objective observation and measurement of the
phenomena of interest
Experiment - ANSWER-A controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomena of
interest
functional analysis - ANSWER-demonstrations of functional relations between
environmental variables and behavior
Replication - ANSWER-Repeating of experiments
Parsimony - ANSWER-Logical explanations for the phenomena under investigation be
ruled out before, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract
explanations are considered
Philosophic doubt - ANSWER-Scientists continually question the truthfulness of what is
regarded as fact.
Bahavorism - ANSWER-The philosophy of the science of behavior
experimental analysis of behavior (EAB) - ANSWER-A natural science approach to the
study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by B. F. Skinner;
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