EAB3002 Exam 1 FIU Study Guide.
Description - answer-A collection of facts about the observed events
- describes observed events in detail
Prediction - answerOccurs when repeated observations reveal that two events covary with each
other
Control - answer-AKA causation
- involves manipulation ...
Parsimony - answer✔All simple logical explanations need to be ruled out before considering
more complex explanations
Philosophical doubt - answer✔Continually question the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact.
Radical Behaviorism - answer✔A thoroughgoing form of behaviorism that attempts to
understand all human behavior, including private events such as thoughts and feelings, in terms
of controlling variables in the history of the person (ontogeny) and the species (phylogeny).
methodological behaviorism - answer✔Acknowledges the existence of mental events but does
not consider them in the analysis of behavior
Circular reasoning - answer✔the cause and effect are both inferred from the same information
hypothetical constructs - answer✔presumed but unobserved entities that could not be
manipulated in an experiment
Mentalism - answer✔An approach to explaining behavior that assumes that a mental, or "inner,"
dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension
Explanatory fictions - answer✔Fictitious variable that contributes nothing to an understanding of
the variables responsible for developing or maintaining behavior
Applied Behavior Analysis - answer✔The science in which tactics derived from the principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to
identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.
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