Module 1 Foundational Terminology Cumulative Assessment

Question 1

Principles of Behavior

Answer 1

Reinforcement and Punishment.

Question 2

Generavity

Answer 2

Requires that behaviors last over time and appear in other environments other than the that of training.

Question 3

Applied Behavior Analysis

Answer 3

This is the science in which the principles of behavior are used to improve socially important behaviors and experimental analysis is used to determine which variables are responsible for improvement.

Question 4

Methodoligical Behaviorism

Answer 4

Refers to a philosophical position in which behavioral events that cannot be observed are not behaviors.

Question 5

Radical Behaviorism

Answer 5

Represents Skinner’s “far-reaching” and “thoroughgoing” form of behaviorism that includes both public and private behaviors.

Question 6

Analytical

Answer 6

Requires that experimenters have used single subject research designs to demonstrate a functional relation, or a believable demonstration of the efficacy of an intervention.

Question 7

Effective

Answer 7

Requires that improvement of behavior be socially significant and based on a visual analysis of data.

Question 8

Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Answer 8

Founded by Skinner, this natural science focuses on studying operant behavior as a subject matter, using single subject experimental designs rather than group designs, to measure behavior as a dependent variable.

Question 9

Conceptual

Answer 9

Requires that interventions used must be based on the principles of behavior and have empirical evidence supporting efficacy.

Question 10

Technological

Answer 10

Requires the thorough and accurate description of procedures used in interventions.

Question 11

Behavior

Answer 11

Requires that variables under study be observable and measurable.

Question 12

Applied

Answer 12

Requires that scientists and practitioners selecting behaviors for change that are socially significant.