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Psychology - Answer-Scientific Study of behavior and mental processes Goal of Description - Answer-What's Happening? To Whom? Where? What else? Advantage: Simple and Straightfoward Disadvantage: Doesn't cover relationships (Perceiving the Question step derives this goal) Goal of Prediction - Answer-Goes into connections/relationships Advantages: Relationships Disadvantages: No WHY? (Forming Hypotheses) Goal of Explanation - Answer-Why are things occurring?? Advantage: Most thorough u...

BCBA 5th Edition Exam Goal of ABA as a science - correct answer Description, Prediction, Control Description - correct answer Lowest level, describing what happened that is observable. Ex. repeated movements of the hand up and down for more than 5 seconds. Prediction - correct answer predicting what will happen in something in the environment changes. Repeated observations that show these events correlate with each other (no causal relation). One of your main jobs, you need to be a good p...

Veterinary Assistant Final Exam Study Guide Rated A+ BF Skinner was one of the founders of what academic discipline? Operant conditioning / behaviorism Positive reinforcement By adding something the animal wants; you increase the likely hood the behavior will occur again Negative reinforcement By removing something aversive, you increase the like hood of the behavior will occur again positive punishment By adding something the animal dislikes or finds aversive you decrease the...

Behavioural Counselling - General approach - Answer help clients learn new, appropriate ways of acting, or to help them modify or eliminate excessive actions Behavioural therapy: View of human nature - Answer - Developed by BF Skinner - focus on behavioural processes - ovet behaviour - focus on the present (here and now) - assumption that all behaviour is learned (both + and -) - belief that learning can be effective in changing maladaptive behaviour - focus on setting up well-defi...

BYU Psych375 Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass John B. Watson - Correct Answer ️️ -Behaviorist o He focused on observable human nature. He thought internal thoughts had no causal role in behavior What did Watson study or introduce to the scientific field? - Correct Answer ️️ -o He believed you can raise anyone to become anything. Stimulus=Response o Little Albert experiment rat + loud bell=baby learning that rat was bad What role did Gestalt psychology play in moving away fr...

Founders: - Answer Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, Skinner Ivan Pavlov - Answer Russian Physiologist/nobel prize pavlov's dogs John Watson - Answer 'Father of Behaviorism' behavior can be looked at w/o looking into the mind Little Albert Edward Thorndike - Answer law of effect hungry cat in a box --> escapes got faster to get to fishy outside BF Skinner - Answer operant conditioning (CONSEQUENCES) 3-term contingency (birds/pellets) MO (motivating operation) - Answe...

ESL PRAXIS 5362 (2023/2024) Rated A+ English Phonemes 26 letters/ 44 phonemes BF Skinner Behaviorist Theory of Language Learning. Children enter the world as a blank slate and are influenced by the environment. "ope rant conditioning" Schema The framework around information that is stored in the brain. Code switching mixing of words in L1 and L2 Inter-language Strategy used by second language learner to compensate for lack of proficiency Overgeneralization Inter language strategy- attempt...

First HR Association correct answer: American Society for Personnel Administration in 1948 Six functional areas of HR correct answer: Business Management & strategy workforce planning and employment HR development Comp & benefits EE & labor relations risk management 7 common elements of needs assessment/analysis correct answer: 1. describe the objective - where do we want to be? 2. define the current situation - where are we now? 3. conduct gap analysis 4. set priorities 5. i...

Comprehensive ABA Exam with 100% Correct Answers Unconditioned Reinforcer *Ans* Not learned Ex. food and water Applied Behavioral Analysis *Ans* The science devoted to the understanding and improvement of human behavior. Socially Significant Behaviors *Ans* Behaviors that have immediate and long term benefits for the person engaging in them. Social Significance *Ans* *To what extent will the proposed behavior change improve the person's life experience? *The presumption that we ar...

ABAT Exam Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions Latest Updated 2024/2025 Graded A+. BCBA - D most advanced credential, w/ doctorate degree in related field, previously a BCBA BCBA masters in related field, specific coursework in ABA, completed supervision training hours, passed BCBA exam Who can practice ABA without supervision/act as supervisors? BCBA-D & BCBA BCaBA bachelors in related field, coursework in ABA, training & supervision hours, passed BCBA, CAN'T work alone, but may...