EDF 6225 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
▶ Psychology in the early 1900's was dominated with the study of.....
Answer: states of consciousness, images, and other mental processes
▶ "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" article. Answer: John B.
Watson
▶ Observable behavior and S-R Psychology. Answer: John B. Watson
▶ Foundation for the study of behavior as a natural science. Argued that
subject matter for psychology should be the study of observable behavior,
not states of mind or mental processes.. Answer: John B. Watson
▶ The behavior of the organsim. Answer: Skinner
▶ Respondents are elicited ("brought out") by stimuli that immediately
precede them. Involuntary responses. Occur whenever eliciting stimulus is
present. S-R model.. Answer: Respondent behavior
▶ Behavior is shaped through the consequences that immediately follow it.
Three-term contingency. S-R-S model. Behaviors that are influenced by
stimulus changes that have followed through the behavior in the past..
Answer: Operant behavior
▶ Private events such as thoughts and feelings are behavior. Answer:
Radical behaviorism
▶ Behavior that takes place within the skin is distinguished from other
("public") behavior only by its inaccessibility. Answer: Radical behaviorism
▶ Private behavior has no special properties and is influenced by (i.e. is a
function of) the same kinds of variables as publicly accessible behavior.
Answer: Radical behaviorism
, ▶ includes and seeks to understand all human behavior, fair-reaching and
thoroughgoing, dramatic departure from other conceptual systems.
Answer: Radical behaviorism
▶ One of the first studies to report the human application of operant
behavior. The participant was an 18-year old boy with profound intellectual
disability. Arm-raising response was conditioned by injecting a small
amount of a warm sugar-milk solution into participant's mouth every time he
moved his right arm.. Answer: Fuller (1949)
▶ "The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer". Formed the basis for
branch of behavior analysis that would alter be called applied behavior
analysis. Described techniques based on principles of behavior to improve
the functioning of chronically psychotic patients or residents with intellectual
diabilities.. Answer: Ayllon and Michael (1959)
▶ Researchers began to apply principles of behavior in an effort to improve
socially important behavior. Answer: 1960s
▶ Techniques for measuring behavior and controlling and manipulating
variables were sometimes unavailable or inappropriate. Little funding was
available. No ready outlet for publishing studies.. Answer: 1960s
▶ Formal beginning of contemporary applied behavior analysis. Application
of principles were made.. Answer: 1960s-1970s
▶ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) began publication. Answer:
1960s-1970s
▶ First journal in united states to deal with applied problems and gave
researchers using methodology from the experimental analysis of behavior
an outlet for publishing their findings. Flagship journal of ABA.. Answer:
Journal of applied behavior analysis (JABA)
▶ Founding fathers of ABA. Answer: Baer, Wolf, and Risley 1960s-1970s
▶ Defined the criteria for judging adequacy of research and practice in ABA
and outlines the scope of work for those in the science. Most widely cited
publication in ABA and remains standard description of the discipline..
AND COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
▶ Psychology in the early 1900's was dominated with the study of.....
Answer: states of consciousness, images, and other mental processes
▶ "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" article. Answer: John B.
Watson
▶ Observable behavior and S-R Psychology. Answer: John B. Watson
▶ Foundation for the study of behavior as a natural science. Argued that
subject matter for psychology should be the study of observable behavior,
not states of mind or mental processes.. Answer: John B. Watson
▶ The behavior of the organsim. Answer: Skinner
▶ Respondents are elicited ("brought out") by stimuli that immediately
precede them. Involuntary responses. Occur whenever eliciting stimulus is
present. S-R model.. Answer: Respondent behavior
▶ Behavior is shaped through the consequences that immediately follow it.
Three-term contingency. S-R-S model. Behaviors that are influenced by
stimulus changes that have followed through the behavior in the past..
Answer: Operant behavior
▶ Private events such as thoughts and feelings are behavior. Answer:
Radical behaviorism
▶ Behavior that takes place within the skin is distinguished from other
("public") behavior only by its inaccessibility. Answer: Radical behaviorism
▶ Private behavior has no special properties and is influenced by (i.e. is a
function of) the same kinds of variables as publicly accessible behavior.
Answer: Radical behaviorism
, ▶ includes and seeks to understand all human behavior, fair-reaching and
thoroughgoing, dramatic departure from other conceptual systems.
Answer: Radical behaviorism
▶ One of the first studies to report the human application of operant
behavior. The participant was an 18-year old boy with profound intellectual
disability. Arm-raising response was conditioned by injecting a small
amount of a warm sugar-milk solution into participant's mouth every time he
moved his right arm.. Answer: Fuller (1949)
▶ "The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer". Formed the basis for
branch of behavior analysis that would alter be called applied behavior
analysis. Described techniques based on principles of behavior to improve
the functioning of chronically psychotic patients or residents with intellectual
diabilities.. Answer: Ayllon and Michael (1959)
▶ Researchers began to apply principles of behavior in an effort to improve
socially important behavior. Answer: 1960s
▶ Techniques for measuring behavior and controlling and manipulating
variables were sometimes unavailable or inappropriate. Little funding was
available. No ready outlet for publishing studies.. Answer: 1960s
▶ Formal beginning of contemporary applied behavior analysis. Application
of principles were made.. Answer: 1960s-1970s
▶ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) began publication. Answer:
1960s-1970s
▶ First journal in united states to deal with applied problems and gave
researchers using methodology from the experimental analysis of behavior
an outlet for publishing their findings. Flagship journal of ABA.. Answer:
Journal of applied behavior analysis (JABA)
▶ Founding fathers of ABA. Answer: Baer, Wolf, and Risley 1960s-1970s
▶ Defined the criteria for judging adequacy of research and practice in ABA
and outlines the scope of work for those in the science. Most widely cited
publication in ABA and remains standard description of the discipline..
