QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
\.Generativity - ANSWERS-The behavior continues
after withdrawal of intervention and
occurs in other settings/situations
\.Technical - ANSWERS-Requires the thorough and accurate description
of procedures used in interventions.
\.Effective - ANSWERS-The intervention is
demonstrated through visual analysis
of data to have produced positive
results
\.Applied - ANSWERS-The intervention must be
applied to socially significant
behaviors requiring change
,\.Conceptual - ANSWERS-Intervention must be
based on the principles of behavior,
and to the extent available, empirical
data (literature/research)
\.Analytic - ANSWERS-Demonstrating a functional relation between the
intervention and
the behavior; demonstration of control
of the behavior by the intervention
\.Behavioral - ANSWERS-Must be observable and
measurable
\.Pragmatism - ANSWERS-The notion that a question is only worth
pursuing if the answer to it
would change our knowledge of the world
\.Determinism - ANSWERS-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 - ANSWERS-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 - ANSWERS-An assumption of an "inner" dimension as the
explanation of behavior
Describing behavior as having non-physical, mental cause; a 'belief'
\.Explanatory Fiction - ANSWERS-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 - ANSWERS-An event observed by another person
• Walking across the street