Spce 630 stuvia 2024 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Inconsistent implementation of condition protocols refers to which threat to internal validity? - ANSWER Procedural Infidelity Which level of scientific understanding includes observation and accurate description of phenomena? - ANSWER Description Which level of scientific understanding refers to observing the correlation between two variables? - ANSWER Prediction Which level of scientific understanding refers to reliable change produced by change in the independent variable? - ANSWER C...

Threats to internal validity include - ANSWER Testing, maturation, procedural infidelity Events that occur during the experiment but that are not related to planned procedural changes that may influence the outcomes. - ANSWER History Changes in behavior due to the passage of time - ANSWER Maturation Occurs when participants need to respond to the same test repeatedly during a baseline or probe condition, whcih influences responding - ANSWER Testing Threats related to the measurement ...

Threats to internal validity include: - ANSWER History, maturation, testing, procedural infidelity Events that occur during the experiment but that are not related to planned procedural changes that may influence the outcomes. - ANSWER History Changes in behavior due to the passage of time. - ANSWER Maturation Occurs when participants need to respond to the same test repeatedly during a baseline or probe condition, which influences responding. - ANSWER Testing Threats related to the ...

Inconsistent implementation of condition protocols refers to which threat to internal validity? - ANSWER procedural infidelity Which level of scientific understanding includes observation and accurate description of phenomena? - ANSWER description Which level of scientific understanding refers to observing the correlation between two variables? - ANSWER hypothesis Which level of scientific understanding refers to reliable change produced by change in the IV? - ANSWER control SCRD dif...

History of Ethics in Applied Research - ANSWER Under present federal regulations The Public Health Service Act as amended by the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993), sponsoring institutions must ensure the rights of research participants are protected Well designed applied research studies allow for: - ANSWER A) The systematic study of behaviors in typical environments (baseline measures) B) evaluation of a new intervention or innovation C) replications of findings fro...

_____________________ helps us to suggest a hypothesis or research question and scientists systematically observe a particular phenomenon and accurately describe their observation. - ANSWER Description Which level of scientific understanding refers to reliable change produced by change in the independent variable? - ANSWER Control Which level of scientific understanding refers to observing the correlation between two variables? - ANSWER Prediction Single case research design differs fro...

Threats to internal validity include - ANSWER Testing, maturation, procedural infidelity Events that occur during the experiment but that are not related to planned procedural changes that may influence the outcomes. - ANSWER History Changes in behavior due to the passage of time - ANSWER Maturation Occurs when participants need to respond to the same test repeatedly during a baseline or probe condition, whcih influences responding - ANSWER Testing Threats related to the measurement ...

strongest threats to internal validity for withdrawal/reversal designs include all of the following except - ANSWER history the primary ethical concern associated with withdrawal designs is - ANSWER removing a successful intervention external validity of an ABAB design can be improved by - ANSWER having at least 3 participants unlike withdrawal designs, reversal designs involve - ANSWER a second intervention phase which is the most powerful within-subject design? - ANSWER ABAB in ...

Applied research involves... - ANSWER systematic investigation related to the pursuit of knowledge in practical realms Independent variables - ANSWER A variable that a scientist changes to find out how this change affects other variables in the experiment. dependent variable - ANSWER The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable. Applied research focuses on... - ANSWER problems of reinforcement and learning in several different...

ABA - ANSWER a scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change that takes practical advantage of those discoveries purpose of science - ANSWER gain a thorough understanding or knowledge about the phenomena under study ABA- tries to understand socially significant behaviors in order to improve behavior psychology- tries to understand the mental processes and behaviors of humans bas...