PSY 7708 Unit 1 Quiz - Quiz PDF

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1. A future of an event that can be measured is called a ____________. Dimension 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 Circular reasoning 3. B. F. Skinner is considered the founder of the experimental analysis of behavior. True 4. Behaviors are not random. They occur as a result of other events in the environment. This describes which attitude of science? Lawfulness of behavior 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. False 6. In ABA, objective observations of behavior should always occur. This describes which attitude of science? Empiricism 7. Philosophic doubt involves the continuous questioning of the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge. True

8. Pragmatism is the philosophy that understanding a concept or situation has _________ implications for action. Practical 9. Private events: Have the same physical status as public events. 10.Psychology in the early 1900s was dominated by the study of behavior through measurable and observable means False 11.The highest level of scientific understanding is prediction, or the ability to correlate between events. False 12.The idea that simple, logical explanations must be ruled out, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered. Parsimony 13.The levels of understanding that science provides include: Prediction, description, and control 14.The overarching purpose of applied behavior analysis as a field of study is to concentrate on socially important or significant behaviors. True 15.There are three levels of understanding that persist in science, and each level contributes to the overall knowledge base in a given field. True

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. Mentalism 17.This approach to understanding behavior attempts to explain all behavior, including private events: Radical behaviorism 18.This branch of behavior analysis concentrates on development of a technology to improve behavior. Applied behavior analysis 19.This branch of behavior analysis concentrates on the philosophy of the science of behavior. Behaviorism 20.This formally began the experimental branch of behavior analysis. Skinner’s publication, The Behavior of Organisms. 21.This involves the repetition of experiments to determine the reliability of findings. Replication 22.This is the assumption upon which science is predicated. Determinism 23.Which of the following is an attitude of science? Empiricism 24.Which of the following is an attitude of science?

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