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SPCED 611 - Exam 1Prediction - correct answer ✔level of investigation in science in which
correlations can be demonstrated or when one event occurs, another event is
likely to occur or not occur.
Control - correct answer ✔only level of investigation that provides an
understanding of functional relations; highest level of scientific understanding.
Parsimony - correct answer ✔scientific attitude that involves ruling out
simple, logical explanations first before moving on to more complex or
abstract explanations.
S-R-S Model - correct answer ✔Three-term contingency.
Formal Beginning of Contemporary ABA - correct answer ✔JABA began
publication and "Some Current Dimensions of ABA" by Baer, Wolf and Risley
was published.
Analytic - correct answer ✔defining characteristic that demonstrates
experimental control over the occurrence and non-occurrence of the behavior,
or functional relation.
Discriminated Operant - correct answer ✔a behavior that occurs more
frequently under some antecedent conditions than it does others.
EAB - correct answer ✔branch of ABA that focuses on basic research.
, Science - correct answer ✔overall goal is to achieve a thorough
understanding of the phenomenon under study.
Control - correct answer ✔level of investigation in which functional relations
can be derived.
Prediction - correct answer ✔level of investigation that demonstrates
correlation between events and is based on repeated observations.
Description - correct answer ✔level of investigation that involves the
collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified, classified,
and examined for possible relations with other known facts, and often
suggests hypotheses or questions for additional research.
Functional Relationship - correct answer ✔Specific change in the dependent
variable can reliably be produced by specific manipulations in the independent
variable, and the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the
result of confounding variables.
Determinism - correct answer ✔assumption upon which science is
predicated, the idea that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all
phenomena occur as the result of other events.
B.F. Skinner - correct answer ✔founder of experimental analysis of behavior.
Mentalism - correct answer ✔approach to understanding behavior that
assumes that a mental or "inner" dimension exists that differs from a
behavioral dimension and that phenomena in this dimension either directly
cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior.
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