EXAM SCRIPT WELL ANSWERED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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⩥ 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.
Answer: considers the simplest , most logical explanation of a
phenomenon before more complex explanations are considered
⩥ 3 major branches of behavior analysis.
Answer: Behaviorism
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)