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prediction - Correct Answer using existing knowledge from observation to suggest that two events are related and that there is a high probability that they will co-occur control - Correct Answer in depth understanding of the subject matter which allows the scientist to predict and manipulate the occurrence or non-occurrence of some event description - Correct Answer collecting, quantifying and organizing knowledge about some observed events to allow for classification and comparison to other knowledge science - Correct Answer the use of description, prediction, and control and reliance on determinism, empiricism, replication, parsimony, and philosophic doubt to understand natural phenomena socially important behaviors - Correct Answer behaviors that enhance and improve people's lives correlation - Correct Answer when two events are observed to co-occur functional relation - Correct Answer a verbal statement that describes the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the operation of one or more specified and controlled variables in the experiment in which a specific change in one event can be produced by manipulating another event and that change in the dependent variable was unlikely the result of other factors independent variable - Correct Answer the variable that is applied by the researcher, sometimes called the intervention or treatment variable, that is manipulated to determine its effect on the dependent variable dependent variable - Correct Answer the variable of interest that is measured to determine what effect the independent variable during an experiment confounding variable - Correct Answer a variable that cannot be eliminated as affecting the dependent variable because it was not controlled for pseudoscience - Correct Answer the practice of making claims that are often unfalsifiable and always contradicted or unsupported by scientific evidence 1 / 3
skepticism - Correct Answer the practice of using objective evidence to evaluate whether or not a claim is accurate validity - Correct Answer the extent to which some claim is truthful or scientifically supported Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) - Correct Answer the natural science that is the foundation of all behavior analytic research and practice replication - Correct Answer the repeating of experiments and conditions within experiments which allows scientists to determine the reliability and usefulness of their findings deductive reasoning - Correct Answer methods which purport theories a priori and then test them against empirical evidence inductive reasoning - Correct Answer scientific methods which work to obtain objective data prior to developing theories or suggesting possible functional relations or principles epistemology - Correct Answer approach to scientific study and theory lawful/lawfulness - Correct Answer adherence to the assumption of determinism which suggests that all behavior is orderly mentalism - Correct Answer the approach that leads us to search inside the organism for explanations for behavior Locus of control - Correct Answer the location of those influential and initiating causes of behavior phylogeny - Correct Answer history which selects for inherited behaviors ontogeny - Correct Answer history which selects for behaviors learned over the organism's lifetime dualism - Correct Answer the position that there are multiple worlds apart from the physical world 2 / 3
materialism - Correct Answer the belief that the world is made up of only physical things and events of a variety of relations and states respondent behavior - Correct Answer the kind of behavior that is correlated with specific eliciting stimuli operant behavior - Correct Answer behavior for which the causal mode of selection is consequences; often described as either contingency-shaped or rule-governed.rule governed behavior - Correct Answer occurs when an individual is behavior in accordance with explicit rules, advice, or instructions contingency shaped behavior - Correct Answer the class of operant behavior that (a) follows the principle of consequential selection and (b) comes under stimulus control and is described using the three-term contingency overt behavior - Correct Answer readily observable by others covert behavior - Correct Answer not readily observable by others private events - Correct Answer real events that are characterized by limited accessibility to others determinism - Correct Answer the assumption that behavior is lawfully determined by physical events and can be studied as such collecting facts about observed events for quantification, classification, and comparison with other knowledge - Correct Answer description using information from repeated observations to suppose that two events are correlated and the presence of one is indicative of the other being likely to occur - Correct Answer prediction the highest level of scientific understanding that allows you to predict with certainty when one event will occur and reliably produce it - Correct Answer control
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