EDF6225 EXAM1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
Focus of ABA
Scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence
socially significant behavior and developing a technology of behavior change that takes
practical advantage of those discoveries
Description
Collection of facts
Can be quantified, classified, examined
Suggest hypothesis or questions for additional research
Control
• Highest level of understanding
• Functional relations can be derived
• Independent variables
• Dependent variable
Prediction
• Repeated observations
• Demonstrates correlation
• Relative probability
Goals of ABA
, • Description
• Prediction
• Control
Determinism
• Phenomena occur as a result of other events
• Events do not occur at will
• Events are related in systematic ways
Empiricism
• The practice of objective observation and measurement of the phenomena
• We observe what we want to know more about
Experimentation
• controlled comparison
• independent & dependent variable
Parsimony
• logical explanations for the phenomena are ruled out
• complex & abstract explanations are considered
Philosophic Doubt
• questioning the truthfulness of facts
Replication
• Repeating experiments
• determines reliability
ABA
developing technology
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
Focus of ABA
Scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence
socially significant behavior and developing a technology of behavior change that takes
practical advantage of those discoveries
Description
Collection of facts
Can be quantified, classified, examined
Suggest hypothesis or questions for additional research
Control
• Highest level of understanding
• Functional relations can be derived
• Independent variables
• Dependent variable
Prediction
• Repeated observations
• Demonstrates correlation
• Relative probability
Goals of ABA
, • Description
• Prediction
• Control
Determinism
• Phenomena occur as a result of other events
• Events do not occur at will
• Events are related in systematic ways
Empiricism
• The practice of objective observation and measurement of the phenomena
• We observe what we want to know more about
Experimentation
• controlled comparison
• independent & dependent variable
Parsimony
• logical explanations for the phenomena are ruled out
• complex & abstract explanations are considered
Philosophic Doubt
• questioning the truthfulness of facts
Replication
• Repeating experiments
• determines reliability
ABA
developing technology
