ASU SPE 563 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Generativity - ANSWER The behavior continues
after withdrawal of intervention and
occurs in other settings/situations
Technical - ANSWER Requires the thorough and accurate description of
procedures used in interventions.
Effective - ANSWER The intervention is
demonstrated through visual analysis
of data to have produced positive
results
Applied - ANSWER The intervention must be
applied to socially significant
behaviors requiring change
Conceptual - ANSWER Intervention must be
based on the principles of behavior,
and to the extent available, empirical
data (literature/research)
Analytic - ANSWER Demonstrating a functional relation between the intervention
and
the behavior; demonstration of control
of the behavior by the intervention
Behavioral - ANSWER Must be observable and
measurable
Pragmatism - ANSWER The notion that a question is only worth pursuing if the
answer to it
would change our knowledge of the world
Determinism - ANSWER The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly
place in which
phenomena occur in relation to other events, not in accidental fashion
• There are ALWAYS causes of behavior - Cause and Effect
• All actions are the result of heredity or environmental factors.
, • No instance of behavior occurs without a physical cause
• In behavior analysis we focus on the environmental impact on
organisms, both the antecedents and consequences
Realism - ANSWER The view of the world that assumes only the natural world,
which
presupposes an absolute truth
"view of the world that assumes a real world to exist apart from our
perceptions" (Baum 2017, p. 288).
Mentalism - ANSWER An assumption of an "inner" dimension as the explanation
of behavior
Describing behavior as having non-physical, mental cause; a 'belief'
Explanatory Fiction - ANSWER A fictitious variable, often another name for an
observable behavior,
which implies an inner cause for the behavior
mental events used to explain behavior
Example: Low self-esteem
Public Event - ANSWER An event observed by another person
• Walking across the street
• Eating lunch
Private Event - ANSWER An event that can only be observed and verified by the
individual
performing the behavior
• Thinking - An individual's personal thoughts - 'talking to yourself'
Natural Event - ANSWER An event that is locatable in time and space in the
natural world
• Explained by other natural events
Experimental analysis of behavior - ANSWER founded by skinner, this is the
natural science that focuses on studying operant behavior as a subject matter,
using single subject experimental designs rather than group designs, to
measure behavior as a dependent variable.
Applied Behavior Analysis - ANSWER The science in which the principles of
behaviors are used to improve socially important behaviors and experimental
analysis is used to determine which variables are responsible for improvement.
Radical Behaviorism - ANSWER Skinner's "far-reaching" and "thoroughgoing"
form of behaviorism that includes both public and private behaviors.
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Generativity - ANSWER The behavior continues
after withdrawal of intervention and
occurs in other settings/situations
Technical - ANSWER Requires the thorough and accurate description of
procedures used in interventions.
Effective - ANSWER The intervention is
demonstrated through visual analysis
of data to have produced positive
results
Applied - ANSWER The intervention must be
applied to socially significant
behaviors requiring change
Conceptual - ANSWER Intervention must be
based on the principles of behavior,
and to the extent available, empirical
data (literature/research)
Analytic - ANSWER Demonstrating a functional relation between the intervention
and
the behavior; demonstration of control
of the behavior by the intervention
Behavioral - ANSWER Must be observable and
measurable
Pragmatism - ANSWER The notion that a question is only worth pursuing if the
answer to it
would change our knowledge of the world
Determinism - ANSWER The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly
place in which
phenomena occur in relation to other events, not in accidental fashion
• There are ALWAYS causes of behavior - Cause and Effect
• All actions are the result of heredity or environmental factors.
, • No instance of behavior occurs without a physical cause
• In behavior analysis we focus on the environmental impact on
organisms, both the antecedents and consequences
Realism - ANSWER The view of the world that assumes only the natural world,
which
presupposes an absolute truth
"view of the world that assumes a real world to exist apart from our
perceptions" (Baum 2017, p. 288).
Mentalism - ANSWER An assumption of an "inner" dimension as the explanation
of behavior
Describing behavior as having non-physical, mental cause; a 'belief'
Explanatory Fiction - ANSWER A fictitious variable, often another name for an
observable behavior,
which implies an inner cause for the behavior
mental events used to explain behavior
Example: Low self-esteem
Public Event - ANSWER An event observed by another person
• Walking across the street
• Eating lunch
Private Event - ANSWER An event that can only be observed and verified by the
individual
performing the behavior
• Thinking - An individual's personal thoughts - 'talking to yourself'
Natural Event - ANSWER An event that is locatable in time and space in the
natural world
• Explained by other natural events
Experimental analysis of behavior - ANSWER founded by skinner, this is the
natural science that focuses on studying operant behavior as a subject matter,
using single subject experimental designs rather than group designs, to
measure behavior as a dependent variable.
Applied Behavior Analysis - ANSWER The science in which the principles of
behaviors are used to improve socially important behaviors and experimental
analysis is used to determine which variables are responsible for improvement.
Radical Behaviorism - ANSWER Skinner's "far-reaching" and "thoroughgoing"
form of behaviorism that includes both public and private behaviors.
