EDF 6225 PRACTICE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ 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)
▶ 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
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ 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)
▶ 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
