Operant selection Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Prediction correct answers Correlation, Covariation Control correct answers Causation Experimentation correct answers Experimental Analysis Analytical correct answers Functional relation, Experimentation, control, Causation Generality correct answers Generalization Mentalism correct answers Spiritual, Psychic, Subjective, Feelings, Attitudes, Processing Hypothetical Constructs correct answers Imaginary Constructs Conceptual Analysis of Behavior correct answers Behaviorism ...

Prediction - Correlation, Covariation Control - Causation Experimentation - Experimental Analysis Analytical - Functional relation, Experimentation, control, Causation Generality - Generalization Mentalism - Spiritual, Psychic, Subjective, Feelings, Attitudes, Processing Hypothetical Constructs - Imaginary Constructs Conceptual Analysis of Behavior - Behaviorism Darwinian Selectionism - Selection by Consequences Respondent Behavior - Reflex, Reflexive Relations, Unconditioned Responden...

psychology - the study of human behavior and mental processes and their influences behavior - human actions that can be observed mental processes - thoughts, emotions, and motives that cannot be observed science - an approach to gaining knowledge using systematic observation scientific method - set of principles and procedures that guide researchers when generating questions, evidence, and conclusions hypothesis - prediction that can be tested by experiment variable - a factor that can ch...

Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer Set up the first psychological laboratory. Used Introspection and Structuralism Introspection - correct answer Subject is asked to record exactly their thought reactions to a simple stimuli Structuralism - correct answer Idea that the mind operates by combining subjective emotions and object sensations William James - correct answer Published "Principles of Psychology" and furthered Structuralism towards Functionalism Gestalt Psychology - correct answ...

EDF 6225 Chapter 1 and 2 (For test #1) 111 Questions with Verified Answers Applied Behavior Analysis: The science in which tactics derived from the principles of _________ are applied to improve ________ significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change. - CORRECT ANSWER behavior socially ________________: The idea that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as a result of other events, or are sys...

psychology - the scientific study of behavior and mental processes objective introspection - the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities functionalism - early perspective in psychology associated with William James, in which the focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play Gestalt psychology - early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole firgures p...

applied behavior analysis - Answer-the use of operant conditioning principles to change human behavior behavior analysis - Answer-The behavioral science that grew out of Skinner's philosophy of radical behaviorism. Also known as the "experimental analysis of behavior." behaviorism - Answer-A natural science approach to psychology that traditionally focuses on the study of environmental influences on observable behavior. British empiricism - Answer-A philosophical school of thought that m...

In explaining behavior, a useful theory must be: a. inclusive and justifiable b. inclusive, verifiable, and justifiable c. verifiable, exclusive, and predictable d. inclusive, verifiable, have predictive validity, and be parsimonious d. inclusive, verifiable, have predictive validity, and be parsimonious Information concerning a child's brain damage: a. can be useful in the teacher's selection of behavior management techniques b. helps teachers determine who should be in school a...

AMSCO AP Psychology - Unit 1Behaviorism - correct answers A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior Classical conditioning - correct answers a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events ego - correct answers allows people to get what they want and desire within the confines set by society empiricism - correct answers the view that knowledge originates in experience and that ...

unding for counseling services in schools after they were cut due to the Great Depression National Defense Act (1958) - answerprovided further funding for school counselors Elementary School Counseling Demonstration Act of 1955 - answerprovides funding for schools who implement creative and promising guidance initiatives - provides student to counselor ratios No Child Left Behind (2001) - answerspecifically identifying school climate, effective development and the opportunity to graduate ...