Scientific understanding of behavior

Question 1

When you rely on ____, you accept unquestioningly what your judgement or a single story about one person tells you.

Answer 1

Intuition and Anecdote

Question 2

When you rely on ____, you accept unquestioningly what your judgement or a single story about one person tells you.

Answer 2

Intuition and Anecdote

Question 3

It often involves finding an explanation for our behaviors or the behavior of others.

Answer 3

Intuitive Approach

Question 4

This is when we focus on two events that stand out and occur together.

Answer 4

Illusory correlation

Question 5

This is when we focus on two events that stand out and occur together.

Answer 5

Illusory correlation

Question 6

the idea that knowledge comesfrom observations and experiences

Answer 6

Empiricism

Question 7

What are the importance of research?

Answer 7

1. Evaluate reports in various sources
2. Many occupationrequire the use of research findins
3. Important in developing and assessing the effectiveness of programs
4. they can provide us the best answer and satisfy our curiousity

Question 8

T/F
People have a unique observation arounbnd them and usually seeks explanation

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Many people rely on ____ and _____ as primary ways of knowing

Answer 9

intuition and authority

Question 10

When ypu rely on ___, you accept unquestioningly what your judgment about one peron’s experience tells you.

Answer 10

Intuition

Question 11

T/F

numerous cognitive and motivational biases affectsour perception.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

A cognitive bias which occus when we focus on two ts that stand out and occur together

Answer 12

Illusory Correlation

Question 13

T/F
Some authty may include news media, book, teachers, government

Answer 13

True

Question 14

T/F

Scientist accepts anyone’s intuition because they can check it themselves

Answer 14

false

Question 15

The idea that kowledge comes from observations and experiences

Answer 15

empricism

Question 16

T/F
The ways of knowing are the fundamental characteristic of a scientific meth

Answer 16

false. empiricsm

Question 17

Scientists search for observationns that will verify or reject their ideas. They develop theories and conduct research that increases the confidence that the theories are correct

Answer 17

Data play a central role

Question 18

You can be sure that many other scientists will follow up on the findings by conducting research that replicates and extends these observation

Answer 18

Scientists aare not alone

Question 19

supporters of the ideas and those who disagree with the idea can report their research findings

Answer 19

science is adversarial

Question 20

Good scientific ideas are _____. They can be supported orr be ______ by data.

Answer 20

Testable;falsified

Question 21

Before a study is published in a top quality scientific journal, other scientists who have expertise to evaluate the research review it

Answer 21

Scientific evidence is peer reviewed

Question 22

T/F

Scientific approach is an open system that allows ideas to be refuted or supported by others

Answer 22

true

Question 23

the advantage of scientific approach is that it provides an objective rules for ____, ____, and ____.

Answer 23

Gathering, evaluating, and reporting

Question 24

It is the use of seemingly scientific terms and demonstrations to substantiate claimms that have no basis in scientific research

Answer 24

Pseudoscience

Question 25

T/F
Pseudo science is based on anecdotes and testimonials

Answer 25

true

Question 26

T/F
pseudoscience presennts confirmatory and conflicting evidence

Answer 26

FALSE. only confirmmatory evidence

Question 27

T/F

in pseudoscience, the references to scientific evidence lack information on the methods that would allow independent verification

Answer 27

true

Question 28

Enumerate the goals of behavioral science

Answer 28

Describe, Predict, Explain, Control

Question 29

It beginns with careful observation.

Answer 29

describe

Question 30

once it has been observed with some regularity that two events are related to each other, it is possible to make ____

Answer 30

prediction

Question 31

It includes knowledge of the conditions that reliably reproduce the occurence of behavior

Answer 31

explanation

Question 32

it is the application of what has been learned about the behavior. it is possible to use that knowledge to improve the behavior

Answer 32

control

Question 33

It seeks knowledge that may be valuable

Answer 33

basic research

Question 34

it addresses the practical problems and finds potential solutions to problems

Answer 34

applied research