Learning & Behavior Final Exam

Question 1

What is ABA?

Answer 1

Applied Behavioral Analysis
APPLIED: it is behavior that is applied to a situation. Ex. teaching someone how to raise their hand when they want to ask a question.
BEHAVIOR: what is actual behavior?
ANALYSIS: How can we analyze and study behavior?

Question 2

What is learning?

Answer 2

Learning is intaking information. You know you’ve learned something when behavior changes.

Question 3

What is description?

Answer 3

Observing a phenomenon and describing it accurately.

Question 4

Determinism

Answer 4

Determinism states that the universe is a lawful and orderly place and that all phenomenon occur as a result of events that can be recorded by science. Basically, everything can be explained by science.

Question 5

Empiricism

Answer 5

Objective observation.

Question 6

Experimentation

Answer 6

To investigate if a functional relation exists.

Question 7

Replication

Answer 7

The repeating of the experiment and if your experiment was valid, then replications should produce the same or similar results. 56This is a cruicial characteristic of experiments.

Question 8

Parsimony

Answer 8

All simple and logical explanations for a phenomena rules out. You should do this first. Basically, if you’re trying to expalin something, rmake sure that the explanation isn’t something simple and self-explanatory firstbefrore you jim to the big stuff.

Question 9

Philosophic Doubt

Answer 9

Continually question the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact. Knowledge should always be viewed as tentative.

Question 10

Applied

Answer 10

Affecting imporvements in behaviors that enhance and improve lives. Ex. sending a drug addict to rhab.

Question 11

Behavioral

Answer 11

The chosen behavior must be in need of improvement. Thebehavior must be measurable in some way.

Question 12

Analytic

Answer 12

If you change the IV, the DV should change too.

Question 13

Technological

Answer 13

You have to be able to describe an ebent so someone else can replicate it.

Question 14

Conceptually Systematic

Answer 14

This refers to the type of interventions used. All procedures must be described in terms of the basic priniciples of bheavior. All interpreations of the data and results should be discussed in terms of the basic principles.

Question 15

Effective

Answer 15

Whatever you do, you must improve the behavior under investigation to a practical degree. If you have an alcholic and they are drinking more on your program and not less, then your program is not effective.