PSY 538 Quiz 4

Question 1

behavioral phenomena that are observable, if at all, only to the behaving organism, events such as subvocal speech, joint pain, muscle fatigue, mnemonic behavior, and visualization.

Answer 1

how Skinner refers to the term “private events”

Question 2

Order emerges, even over lapses of space and time, without our invoking mediating events such as physiological processes and anatomical structures.

Answer 2

How the three-term contingency is a “fundamental unit of analysis.”

Question 3

Two purposes of science

Answer 3

1. it underlies our mastery of nature

2. science helps us make sense of the world

Question 4

What do we distinguish between

Answer 4

We distinguish, then, between the experimental analysis of nature and the interpretation of nature

Question 5

to offer plausible interpretations of such complex behavior, interpretations that rest only upon principles that have been established independently of the phenomena to be explained.

Answer 5

What our purpose is.

Question 6

any activity of the organism that can be shown to vary in orderly ways with the manipulation of antecedent and consequent events

Answer 6

How we define behavior in the laboratory

Question 7

that set of conditions under which the response is just detectable

Answer 7

The threshold of observability

Question 8

the confluence of observed and unobserved events interacting according to established behavioral principles.

Answer 8

How behavior analysis interprets cognition as behavior