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Chapter 2 - Research Methods Flashcards

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1
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Something that occurs

Eg. Red Light

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Stimulus

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Your reaction to something that occurs

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Reaction

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Type of Observable Behavior

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Overt

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Type of Internal State Behavior

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Covert

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Stimulus that Attracts You

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Appetitive

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Stimulus that Repels You

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Aversive

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Process that makes something more or less appealing

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Establishing Operation

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Process of Making Things More Appetitive

How?

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Deprivation

By depriving yourself of it

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Process of making things more aversive

How?

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Satiation

By prolong exposure

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Idea of closeness/nearness in time and space

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Contiguity

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Association of events based on closeness in time of occurrence

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Temporal Contiguity

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Association of events that are close together

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Spatial contiguity

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Word for if event A happens, event B will occur

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Contingency

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What is objective behavioral measurement?

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No feeling, only observing

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What is unambiguous behavioral learning?

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Consistent with time and is very clear

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Measurement of frequency of response over a period of time

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Rate of Response

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Measurement of the force/magnitude of a behavior

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Intensity

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Measurement of the amount of time the behavior was performed

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Duration

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Measurement of how quickly a behavior was performed

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Speed

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Measurement of how long it takes for a behavior to perform after a stimulus

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Latency

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Measurement of errors/mistake rate

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Number of errors

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Interobserver Reliability

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80% of answer must overlap

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When something influences the others

Independent variable influences dependent variable

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Functional Relationship

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A specific type of research involving the observation of people in their natural habitat

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Naturalistic Observation

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A specific type of research involving the study of one person or small group

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Case Studies

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A broad type of research in which we try to control outside variable to understand only the dependent variable

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Experimental Research

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A specific research where we experiment on a small group where group A gets no treatment and group B gets treatment.

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Simple Comparison (AB)

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