ASSESSMENT TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
⩥ Standard Celeration Chart.
Answer: only standardized form of data measurement in our
science
⩥ Dr Ogden Lindsey.
Answer: coined the term SAFMEDS circa 1980 to refer to the
cards and how to best use them for learning
⩥ SAFMEDS.
Answer: Say All Fast Minute Every Day Shuffle
⩥ Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB).
Answer: - single governing body for professionals in the field of
behavior analysis
- established in 1998 to provide certification to professionals in
an effort to establish minimum criteria to be a reactionary
,⩥ science.
Answer: a systematic approach fro seeking and organizing
knowledge about the natural world
⩥ Three levels of understanding.
Answer: description, prediction, control
⩥ descriptive.
Answer: studies that produce a collection of facts about the
observed events that can be quantified, classified, and examined
for possible relations with other known facts
⩥ correlation.
Answer: when a systematic co-variation occurs between two
events, we are able to predict the probability that one event will
occur in conjunction with the other event
⩥ control.
Answer: - highest level of scientific understanding
,- specifically manipulate one event in order to produce a reliable
change in another event
⩥ independent variable.
Answer: The factor that is manipulated; variable whose effect is
being studied
⩥ dependent variable.
Answer: The outcome factor in which we observe change; the
variable that may change in response to manipulations of the
independent variable
⩥ Functional Relation.
Answer: when one event is specifically manipulated in order to
produce a reliable change in another event, and the change in the
dependent variable in not likely due to other extraneous factors
(confounding variables)
⩥ dependent variable.
Answer: - the "behavior" we wish to change
- the change we see in target bx
, ⩥ independent variable.
Answer: - the "intervention" we employ
- the stimuli we manipulate
⩥ Functional Relation.
Answer: when we manipulate the independent variable and see a
change in the dependent variable and that change is not likely
due to confounding variables
⩥ determinism.
Answer: assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly
place in which phenomena occur as a result of other events
⩥ Empiricism.
Answer: The objective observation of the phenomena of interest
⩥ Replication.
Answer: repeating of experiments to determine the reliability
and usefulness of the findings
⩥ parsimony.