Behavior Analysis (ABA), Behaviorism, Radical & Methodological Behaviorism,
Determinism, Empiricism, Pragmatism, Parsimony, Philosophic Doubt,
Mentalism, Hypothetical Constructs, Explanatory Fiction, Functional Relations &
Functional Control, Cause-and-Effect Analysis, Experimentation, Scientific
Method, Systematic Observation, Data Collection, Measurement, Replication,
Selectionism, Phylogeny, Ontogeny, Independent & Dependent Variables,
Intervention Variables, Confounding & Extraneous Variables, Experimental
Control, Internal & External Validity, Generality, Environmental Variables,
Behavioral Assessment, Socially Significant Behavior, Reinforcement, Functional
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Cognitive process and free will are _____ constructs
hypothetical
An experiment is a comparison of a _____ _____ under two or more independent variables.
Dependent variables
In applied behavior analysis experimentation is used to identify variables responsible for the
improvement of _____.
, behavior
The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve
socially significant behavior.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
When an experiment reveals a change in one event can be reliably produced by manipulations
of another event
Functional Relation
In an experiment, only one _____ _____ is introduced at a time.
independent variable
Explanatory fiction is a _____ variable that adds nothing to functional understanding of
behavior.
hypothetical
The philosophy and science of behavior
Behaviorism
The practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest