Task List A

Question 1

3 Levels of Scientific Understanding

Answer 1

Description, Prediction and Control

Question 2

Description

Answer 2

1st level; fact that are derived from observered evetns and can help us idenitifty a hyothesis for further exploration.

Question 3

Prediction

Answer 3

2nd level; when repeated observations show that there is a consistant relationship between 2 events and predict when one event occurs, the other will occur.

Question 4

Correlation and Covariation

Answer 4

AKA Predicition

Question 5

Control

Answer 5

3rd higest level of a scientific understanding; demonstrating a functional relation

Question 6

Philospohical Assumptions

Answer 6

Determinism
Empiricism
Parisomony
Pragmatism
Selectionism

Question 7

Determinism

Answer 7

lawful and orderly; predicitable
assumption

Question 8

Empiricism

Answer 8

• upon what knowledge is built;
• The act of objective observation and measurement
• Evidence = data = facts
  assumption

Question 9

Parsimony

Answer 9

Simplest theory - assumption

Question 10

Pragmatism

Answer 10

Most practical approach - assumption

Question 11

Selectionism

Answer 11

Selectron by consquence
anything that evolves does so due to the cons - assumption

Question 12

Experimentation

Answer 12

(no longer assumption)Basic strategy of msot sciences; controlled comparison of the DV under 2 or more conditions IV; Ex - FA

Question 13

Replication

Answer 13

(no longer assumption)Repeating expirements to determine reliability of findings

Question 14

philosphical doubt

Answer 14

(no longer assumption)question the truth; healthy skeptism

Question 15

Behavioral

Answer 15

Studying and precisely measuring the activity of living organisms (physical events) rather than perceptions or descriptions of events; observable and measureable; dimension of science

Question 16

Appiled

Answer 16

Socially significant for participants (improve their day-to-day life experiences) and/ or socially significant to participant’s significant others (resulting in more positive behavior toward the participant) Dimension of science

Question 17

Technological

Answer 17

Detailing procedures for behavior change in sufficient detail so that replication can occur. Dimension of science

Question 18

Conceptually Systematic

Answer 18

Procedures are dervied from basic principles of behavior. 4 princ of bx punishment, Rein, ext and stimulus control Dimension

Question 19

Analytic

Answer 19

Demonstrating a functional relation between a manipulated variable/ event and a reliable change in some measurable dimension of the targeted behavior. Dimension

Question 20

Generality

Answer 20

Producing behavior change that lasts over time, appears in new environments other than the one in which the intervention initially took place, or spreads to other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention. Dimension

Question 21

Effective

Answer 21

Producing large enough behavior change for practical value. Meaningful change; Dimension