ABA section A: Philosophical underpinnings Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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Course
ABA
Institution
ABA
What are the three goals of ABA?
1. Improve socially significant behavior
2. Assess environmental influence on behavior
3. Use assessment based and data based decision making
What are the three levels of scientific understanding?
1. Description
2. Prediction (AKA correlation/covariation...
✓ Upon what knowledge is built.
✓ The act of objective observation and measurement.
For empiricism (Hint: Empiricism = ___ =___=___)
✓ Empiricism= evidence= data= facts
Parsimony
✓ Before considering more complex explanations, must first rule out simple and logical
explanations.
Pragmatism
✓ A practical approach to problems in which truth is found in the process of
verification.
✓ A philosophy that asks how things come to be as they are and how we can alter
things.
A probabilistic AB-because-of-C philosophy
✓ At the level of behavior, the relation between the setting (A) and the behavior (B) is
because of the consequence (C).
Selectionism
✓ Selection by consequences.
✓ The scientific belief that anything that evolves does so due to the consequences of
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