Unit 1 quiz Flashcards
A feature of an event that can be measured is called a _____
Dimension
An intern described a new client to his university class. He noted that the client showed problems with sustaining attention during classroom instruction and showed tendencies of ADHD. Later, in his description, he surmised that the client’s ADHD was a cause for his inattentiveness. In this discussion, the two identified variables (ADHD and inattentiveness) are effects and unable to be separated from one another so that one could be manipulated, to test the effect on the other. This is an example of _____ _____.
Circular reasoning
B.F. Skinner is considered the founder of the experimental analysis of behavior.
True
Behaviors are not random. They occur as a result of other events in the environment. This describes which attitude of science?
Lawfulness of behavior
Empiricism is the assumption upon which science is predicated: that the universe is a lawful and orderly place, and events occur as the result of other events.
False
In ABA, objective observations of behavior should always occur. This describes which attitude of science?
Empiricism
Philosophic doubt involves the continuous questioning of the truthfulness and validity of all scienctific theory and knowledge
True
Pragmatism is the philosophy that understanding a concept or situation has ______ implications for action.
Practical
Private events:
Have the same physical status as public events.
Psychology in the early 1900s was dominated by the study of behavior through measurable and observable means.
False
The highest level of scienctific understanding is prediction, or the ability to correlate between events.
False.
The idea that simple, logical explanations must be ruled out, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered.
Parsimony
The levels of understanding that science provides include:
Prediction, description, and control
The overarching purpose of applied behavior analysis as a field of study is to concentrate on socially important or significant behaviors
True
There are three levels of understanding that persist in science, and each level contributes to the overall knowledge base in a given field.
True
This approach to understanding behavior assumes that inner causes or phenomena directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior, and strongly relies on hypothetical constructs or explanatory fiction.
Mentalism
This approach to understanding behavior attempts to explain all behavior, including private events:
Radical behaviorism
This branch of behavior analysis concentrates on development of a technology to improve behavior.
Applied behavior analysis
This branch of behavior analysis concentrates on the philosophy of the science of behavior
Behaviorism
This formally began the experimental branch of behavior analysis
Skinner’s publication, The Behavior of Organisms
This involves the repetition of experiments to determine the reliability of findings
Replication
This is the assumption upon which science is predicated
Determinism
Which of the following an attitude of science?
Empiricism
Which of the following is an attitude of science?
Determinism
