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, Evolutionary
Processes, Independent & Dependent Variables, Intervention Variables,
Experimental Control, Internal & External Validity, Confounding & Extraneous
Variables, Generality, Environmental Variables, Socially Significant Behavior,
Reinforcement, Mand Training, Behavior Change, Evidence-Based Practice, and
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The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve
socially significant behavior
ABA
In applied behavior analysis _____ is used to identify the variables responsible for the
improvement in behavior.
Experimentation
In ABA intervention is reserved for ___ ____ behaviors.
, Socially significant
In ABA, experimentation is used to identify variables responsible for the improvement of
______.
behavior
The philosophy and science of behavior
behaviorism
The universe is lawful and orderly place
determinism
With the assumption of determinism, all ____ occur as the result of other events.
phenomena
Determinism is the anithesis to ___.
accidentalism
The practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest
empiricism