pg. 1 EDF 6222 Exam 1/ Practice Questions with Correct Verified Answers/ Updated 2024.
what does it mean to be scientifically skeptical? - ANSWER - that assumptions should not be made until evidence is available
How do you reduce observer bias? - ANSWER - by ensuring interobserver agreement
guidelines for gathering evidence - ANSWER - - reducing observer bias
- examining experimental control
- self-correction
-replication
what is behaviorism - ANSWER - philosophy of the science of human behavior
what does structuralism rely on? - ANSWER - introspection
structuralism - ANSWER - the science of human behavior permits introspection to explain the conscious mind
methodological behaviorism - ANSWER - A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science. and relied on logical positivism -does not consider private events -came from psychophysical parallelism
phylogeny - ANSWER - behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire species
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pg. 2 how do you know the behavior is phylogenic? - ANSWER - when there is no history of the behavior
what do genes do? - ANSWER - -predispose an individual's susceptibility to influence from the environment -genes do not "cause" behavior they set up physical basis for behavior to occur
what does GMI with a mirror do? - ANSWER - provides additional feedback required to receive discriminative control of the model
what did Miller et al. (2015) find? - ANSWER - that mirrors do facilitate acquisition of motor imitation in children with ASD -mirror serves as a discriminative control for the model
where does our understanding of operant behavior originate from? - ANSWER - Darwin's controversial idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create? - ANSWER - Law of effect -trial and error type of explanation -organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant things and vice versa
psychophysical parallelism - ANSWER - -mental events can cause only mental events -physical events can cause only physical events
What did normand present? - ANSWER - -importance of objective, empirical science -being skeptical does not equate being cynical: withhold judgement until sufficient evidence is presented, and examine available evidence before making a decision
Characteristics of pseudoscience - ANSWER - -can't be proven false -anecdotal evidence
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