Construct Relevance Notes Flashcards
What is An unobservable entity that functions as a label or as a causal entity for a constellation of behaviors or of phenomena
Explanatory mechanism
Cannot be accessed or assessed directly
Construct
What describes how a construct is being measured?
Measurement
Describes how a construct or a variable is being manipulated
Experimental
Which behavior strategy is used to Increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring?
Reinforcement
Which behavior strategy is used to decrease the likelihood of a behavior occurring?
Punishment
Which behavior strategy refers to adding
Positive
Which behavior strategy refers to taking away/removing?
Negative
The addition (typically of a reward) to increase the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring
Positive Reinforcement
The removal of an adverse stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring
Negative Reinforcement
An addition that decreases the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring?
Positive Punishment
A removal (typically of a reinforcer) that decreases the likelihood of a behavior reoccurring
Negative Punishment
When there is a huge spike in identifying a specific disability, what could be three of the likely causes?
changes in definition and assessment (diagnostic criteria), placement and construct.
How the examinee’s behavior differ from typical performance or from customary action is called….
Aberrant Behaviors
The performance, ability etc. collected on an examinee is called….
Examinee’s Reflections
The type of scores in which the number of items scored as correct (from diagnostic and prescriptive perspective, often score with the least value) are called
Raw Scores
T/F: Raw scores are the most valuable and simplest to interpret.
False, it is often score with the least value and difficult to interpret.
For example, the examinee spelled 25 words correctly…without descriptions of the examinee, the task, and typical patterns of performance difficult to interpret
Scores based on performance relative to the reference group-– the standardization population
Standardized Scores
Collection of objects that share a set of attributes is called….
A population
Collection of individuals that share a set of attributes or a set of characteristics
Standardization population
The most common approach for comparing scores with the standardization population is the ________ score.
Standard
Epidemic means
something is causing it For example, for autism is was an operational definition, not an epidemic.
T/F Autism is positively correlated with EARLY screen exposure.
True
T/F SPED services are based upon needs not disability.
True, never provide services based upon disability, always on needs
T/F SPED services are based upon needs not disability.
True, never provide services based upon disability, always on needs
T/F the normal distribution was formed by Intelligence.
True intelligence formed normal distribution.
T/F A large debat in the definition of Intelligence involves recall vs. problem solve.
True, the debate is over recall vs. problem solving. I think it’s a balance of the two!
