EDF 6225 advanced edition.

EDF 6225 advanced edition.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)