EDF 6225 CERTIFICATION EXAM
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2026
▶ To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study
and seeks to discover the real truths. No bias by groups or organizations or
by the scientists themselves.. Answer: What is the purpose of the
systematic approach for science?
▶ Describe the three levels of understanding for science. Answer:
Description, prediction, and control
▶ What is the highest level of understanding for science?. Answer: Control
▶ What is the lowest understanding for science?. Answer: Description
▶ Collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified,
classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts..
Answer: Description
▶ Can suggest hypothesis, questions, or additional research ideas.
Answer: Description
▶ Relative probability that when one events occurs, another event either
will or will not occur. Demonstrates correlation between events.. Answer:
Prediction
▶ Must be based on repeated observations. Answer: Prediction
▶ Causal relationships can not be determined. Correlation does not mean
causation.. Answer: Prediction
▶ Functional relations can be derived. Specific change in one event can
reliably be produced by specific manipulation of another event and the
, change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other
extraneous factors (confounding variables).. Answer: Control
▶ The universe is a lawful and orderly place which all phenomena occur as
the result of other events. Events do not occur at will. Events are related in
systematic ways.. Answer: Determinism
▶ The practice of objective aberration of the phenomena of interest.
Answer: Empiricism
▶ All scientific knowledge is built upon. Answer: Empiricism
▶ Controlled comparison of some measure of phenomena of interest
(dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in which only
one factor at a time (independent variable) differs from one condition to
another.. Answer: Experiment
▶ The repeating of an experiment. How scientists determine the reliability
and usefulness of their experiments. Can be within an experiment or across
experiments.. Answer: Replication
▶ All simple explanations are ruled out before more complex or abstract
explanations are considered.. Answer: Parsimony
▶ The continuous questioning of the truthfulness and validity of all scientific
theory and knowledge. Answer: Philosophic doubt
▶ A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena as
evidenced by description, prediction, and control that relies on determinism
as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as its prime directive,
experimentation as its basic strategy, replication as its necessary
requirement for believability, parsimony as its conservative value, and
philosophic doubt as its guiding conscience.. Answer: Definition of science
▶ Does basic research. Answer: Experimental analysis of behavior (EAB)
▶ Develops technology to improve behavior. Understood through EAB and
behaviorism.. Answer: Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2026
▶ To achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomena under study
and seeks to discover the real truths. No bias by groups or organizations or
by the scientists themselves.. Answer: What is the purpose of the
systematic approach for science?
▶ Describe the three levels of understanding for science. Answer:
Description, prediction, and control
▶ What is the highest level of understanding for science?. Answer: Control
▶ What is the lowest understanding for science?. Answer: Description
▶ Collection of facts about observed events that can be quantified,
classified, and examined for possible relations with other known facts..
Answer: Description
▶ Can suggest hypothesis, questions, or additional research ideas.
Answer: Description
▶ Relative probability that when one events occurs, another event either
will or will not occur. Demonstrates correlation between events.. Answer:
Prediction
▶ Must be based on repeated observations. Answer: Prediction
▶ Causal relationships can not be determined. Correlation does not mean
causation.. Answer: Prediction
▶ Functional relations can be derived. Specific change in one event can
reliably be produced by specific manipulation of another event and the
, change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other
extraneous factors (confounding variables).. Answer: Control
▶ The universe is a lawful and orderly place which all phenomena occur as
the result of other events. Events do not occur at will. Events are related in
systematic ways.. Answer: Determinism
▶ The practice of objective aberration of the phenomena of interest.
Answer: Empiricism
▶ All scientific knowledge is built upon. Answer: Empiricism
▶ Controlled comparison of some measure of phenomena of interest
(dependent variable) under two or more different conditions in which only
one factor at a time (independent variable) differs from one condition to
another.. Answer: Experiment
▶ The repeating of an experiment. How scientists determine the reliability
and usefulness of their experiments. Can be within an experiment or across
experiments.. Answer: Replication
▶ All simple explanations are ruled out before more complex or abstract
explanations are considered.. Answer: Parsimony
▶ The continuous questioning of the truthfulness and validity of all scientific
theory and knowledge. Answer: Philosophic doubt
▶ A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena as
evidenced by description, prediction, and control that relies on determinism
as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as its prime directive,
experimentation as its basic strategy, replication as its necessary
requirement for believability, parsimony as its conservative value, and
philosophic doubt as its guiding conscience.. Answer: Definition of science
▶ Does basic research. Answer: Experimental analysis of behavior (EAB)
▶ Develops technology to improve behavior. Understood through EAB and
behaviorism.. Answer: Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
