Unit 1 quiz

Question 1

A feature of an event that can be measured is called a _____

Answer 1

Dimension

Question 2

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 _____ _____.

Answer 2

Circular reasoning

Question 3

B.F. Skinner is considered the founder of the experimental analysis of behavior.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Behaviors are not random. They occur as a result of other events in the environment. This describes which attitude of science?

Answer 4

Lawfulness of behavior

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

In ABA, objective observations of behavior should always occur. This describes which attitude of science?

Answer 6

Empiricism

Question 7

Philosophic doubt involves the continuous questioning of the truthfulness and validity of all scienctific theory and knowledge

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Pragmatism is the philosophy that understanding a concept or situation has ______ implications for action.

Answer 8

Practical

Question 9

Private events:

Answer 9

Have the same physical status as public events.

Question 10

Psychology in the early 1900s was dominated by the study of behavior through measurable and observable means.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

The highest level of scienctific understanding is prediction, or the ability to correlate between events.

Answer 11

False.

Question 12

The idea that simple, logical explanations must be ruled out, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered.

Answer 12

Parsimony

Question 13

The levels of understanding that science provides include:

Answer 13

Prediction, description, and control

Question 14

The overarching purpose of applied behavior analysis as a field of study is to concentrate on socially important or significant behaviors

Answer 14

True

Question 15

There are three levels of understanding that persist in science, and each level contributes to the overall knowledge base in a given field.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Mentalism

Question 17

This approach to understanding behavior attempts to explain all behavior, including private events:

Answer 17

Radical behaviorism

Question 18

This branch of behavior analysis concentrates on development of a technology to improve behavior.

Answer 18

Applied behavior analysis

Question 19

This branch of behavior analysis concentrates on the philosophy of the science of behavior

Answer 19

Behaviorism

Question 20

This formally began the experimental branch of behavior analysis

Answer 20

Skinner’s publication, The Behavior of Organisms

Question 21

This involves the repetition of experiments to determine the reliability of findings

Answer 21

Replication

Question 22

This is the assumption upon which science is predicated

Answer 22

Determinism

Question 23

Which of the following an attitude of science?

Answer 23

Empiricism

Question 24

Which of the following is an attitude of science?

Answer 24

Determinism