ABA Chapter 1 Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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applied behavior analysis (ABA)
a science devoted to the understanding and improvement of human behavior; a
scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence
socially significant behavior & for developing a technology of behavior change that
takes practical...
ABA Chapter 1 Questions and Correct
Answers the Latest Update
applied behavior analysis (ABA)
✓ a science devoted to the understanding and improvement of human behavior; a
scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence
socially significant behavior & for developing a technology of behavior change that
takes practical advantage of those discoveries.
science
✓ a systematic approach for seeking and organizing knowledge about the natural world
covary
✓ in the presence of one event, another event occurs;
✓ to vary with another variable especially in a predictive way
correlation
✓ the relationship that exists between two events that have systematic covariation
between them.
✓
✓ Can be used to predict the relative probability that one event will occur, based on
the presence of the other event.
✓ a verbal statement summarizing the results of an experiment that show a specific
change in one event (dependent variable) can be produced by manipulating another
event (the independent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was
not like the result of other factors (confounding variables);
✓
✓ expressed as b=f(x1)(x2)... where b is the behavior and x2, x2, etc are the
environmental variables of which the behavior is a function
determinism
✓ assumption that the universe (or at least the part to be studied) is a lawful and
orderly place where cause/effect relationships exist
empiricism
✓ prime objective of science; the idea that everything observed must be measurable;
the practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest
experimentation
✓ a carefully conducted comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest
(the dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in which only one
factor at a time (the independent variable) differs from one condition to another
replication
✓ the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion;
parsimony
✓ this attitude requires that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomenon be
ruled out (experimentally or conceptually) before more complex or abstract
explanations are considered
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