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SPCE 611 Chapter 1Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - correct answer ✔A scientific approach for
discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant
behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes
practical advantage of those discoveries.
Science - correct answer ✔A systematic approach for seeking and
organizing knowledge about the natural world.
Overall goal of science - correct answer ✔To achieve a thorough
understanding of the phenomena under study- socially important behaviors in
the case of ABA.
3 levels of understanding of science - correct answer ✔1) Description
2) Prediction
3) Control
Description (descriptive knowledge) - correct answer ✔A collection of facts
about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined for
possible relations with other known facts- the knowledge obtained by
descriptive studies often suggests possible hypotheses or questions for
additional research.
Prediction - correct answer ✔When repeated observations reveal that two
events consistently co-vary with each other- in the presence of one event
another event occurs with some specified probability.
, Correlation - correct answer ✔When systematic co-variation between two
events is found- can be used to predict the relative probability that one event
will occur, based on the presence of the other event.
Correlation studies - correct answer ✔Cannot demonstrate whether any of
the observed variables are responsible for the changes in the other variables.
Control - correct answer ✔Highest level of understanding- functional
relations- the primary products of basic and applied behavior analytic
research, provide the kind of scientific understanding that is most valuable
and useful to the development of technology for changing behavior.
Functional relation - correct answer ✔Exists when a well controlled
experiment reveals that a specific change in one event (the dependent
variable) can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event
(the independent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was
unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors (confounding variables).
Attitudes of Science - correct answer ✔1) Determinism
2) Empiricism
3) Experimentation
4) Replication
5) Parsimony
6) Philosophic doubt
Determinism - correct answer ✔Science is predicated on the assumption of
determinism. Scientist presume that the universe is a lawful and orderly place
in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events.
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