JPG Chapter 9 Vocab

Question 1

Variations in features of responding within a single response class as well as variations in summary measures of that class.

Answer 1

behavioral variability

Question 2

A method arranging comparisons between different groups of subjects exposed to control and experimental conditions. Data from the individual participants in each group are combined so that the data that are analyzed represent the combined performance of individual participants who have experienced only one of the conditions.

Answer 2

between-groups design

Question 3

Arrangement of control and experimental (treatment) conditions that permits comparisons that help identify the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable

Answer 3

experimental design

Question 4

The assumption that variability in behavior is describable, explainable, and predictable in terms of variation in other physical phenomena, whether biological or environmental. See Intrinsic variability.

Answer 4

extrinsic variability

Question 5

Differences in responding among participants.

Answer 5

intersubject varaibility

Question 6

In the assumption that variability in behavior is in one way, or another, inherent or built into the nature of organisms

Answer 6

Intrinsic variability

Question 7

the effect of exposure to one condition on responding in a subsequent condition

Answer 7

Sequence effects

Question 8

Method of arranging comparisons between control and experimental treatment conditions, in which each subject is exposed to both control and experimental conditions in sequence, and the data represent individual participants’ performance under both conditions.

Answer 8

within-subjects design