Deck 5: The Philosophy Supporting Behavior Analysis

Question 1

The most famous real psychologist.

A) Freud
B) Malott
C) Pavlov
D) Skinner

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Without _________, science becomes speculation, superstitious and hearsay?

A) Selectionism
B) Conventual agreement
C) Empiricism
D) Pragmatism

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Wherever there's an effect or an event, there is a _______?

A) Condition
B) Cause
C) Reinforcer
D) Result

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The "Law of Parsimony", means to use the most scientific, though complex, language to explain a hypothesis?

Question 5

Which of the following best describes experimentation?

A) Avoiding cracks on the sidewalk so you do not break your mothers back.
B) Triple checking your door to make sure it's locked.
C) Performing your free throw ritual before shooting the free throw.
D) Doing careful survey's, to find people's true opinions.
E) None of the above.

Question 6

Suppose you did an experiment to see if giving a reinforcer immediately after your dog rolls over would increase the frequency of her rolling over. This is an example of ____

A) Parsimony
B) Correlation
C) Surveyism
D) Experimentation
E) Selectionism

Question 7

Results of research is still important even if it does not show any sort of useful results?

Question 8

Which of the following is the best example of ontogenetic selection?

A) Female giraffes choosing mates based on neck length.
B) All members in a religious group abstaining from intercourse for religious reasons.
C) A child's learning to walk.
D) Human beings evolving to the point where they no longer have tails.

Question 9

Which action fails the dead-man test?

A) sitting
B) smiling
C) swimming
D) dreaming

Question 10

What is an example of a muscular behavior?

A) thinking
B) wearing glasses
C) waving your hand
D) salivating
E) wishing you spent more time at the gym.

Question 11

What word is interchangeable with behavior?

A) stimulus
B) response
C) service
D) reinforcer

Question 12

Which best describes the experimental analysis of behavior?

A) Using the principles of behavior analysis to solve socially significant problems.
B) Doing research, usually with human beings, studying applications of the principles of behavior to socially significant problems.
C) Doing surveys of people attitudes about a free and open democracy
D) Doing research, often with animals, studying the basic principles of behavior analysis.
E) Doing paper-and-pencil, keyboard, or headwork to understand the principles of behavior.

Question 13

"The use of the basic and applied principles of behavior to solve socially significant problems" is the definition of

A) Experimental analysis of behavior
B) Applied behavior analysis
C) Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis

Question 14

Psychoanalysis is a mentalistic approach to the study and improvement of behavior and the mind?

Question 15

Which is an example of repertoire?

A) Food
B) Water
C) Sunshine
D) Picking your nose

Question 16

Why is Rudolph pressing that lever in that weird box?
Because he wants some water!
This is an example of

A) Radical behaviorism
B) Parsimony
C) Pragmatism
D) Circular reasoning
E) Selectionism

Question 17

Dr. Thud, why does Jenny act so strangely?
Easy, because she has a mental illness.
And, Dr. Thud, how do you know Jenny has a mental illness?
Because she acts so strangely.
This is an example of

A) The error of reification
B) Radical behaviorism
C) Parsimony
D) Pragmatism
E) Selectionism

Question 18

Eric's tantrums are a symptom that suggests an underlying psychological problem, perhaps insecurity.
This is an example of

A) The error of reification
B) Radical behaviorism
C) The medical-model myth
D) Selectionism
E) Pragmatism

Question 19

A professor once complained, My grad assistant is passive-aggressive.
I asked Why do you say that.
The professor replied, Well, he agrees to do tasks I ask him to do. But then he doesn't do them. He's passively aggressing against me because he doesn't like me.
This is an example of

A) The error of reification
B) Radical behaviorism
C) The medical-model myth
D) Selectionism
E) Pragmatism

Question 20

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The use of experimental research to discover ways to use the basic principles of behavior to solve socially significant problems.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 21

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 22

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-A set of skills.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 23

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-An erroneous view of human behavior that problem behavior is a mere symptom of an underlying psychological condition.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 24

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The philosophy that the subject matter of psychology is the study of the effects of environmental variables on behavior, largely through experimental analysis.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 25

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The manipulation of events and conditions to evaluate their effects.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 26

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-If a dead man can do it, it probably isn't behavior

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 27

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The use of experimental research to discover the effects of environmental variables on behavior, resulting in the basic principles of behavior.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 28

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The philosophy that behaviorism should only deal with events that two or more scientists can observe.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 29

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, General

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 30

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The study of the principles of behavior.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 31

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-A muscular, glandular, or neuro-electrical activity.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 32

Match the following definitions with the terms below.

-___ Mind

A)The Use of experimental research to discover ways to use the basic principles of behavior to solve socially significant problems.
B) The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions.
C)A set of skills.
D)An erroneous view of human behavior that problem behavior is a mere symptom of an underlying psychological condition.
E)The philosophy, that the subject matter of psychology is the study of the effects of environmental variables on behavior, largely through experimental analysis.
F)The, manipulation of events and conditions to evaluate their effects.
G)If a dead man can do it, it probably isn’t behavior
H)The use of experimental research to discover the effects of environmental variables on behavior, resulting in the basic principles of behavior.
I)The philosophy that behaviorism should only deal with events that two or more scientists can observe.
J)Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, General
K)The study of the principles of behavior.
L)A muscular, glandular, or neuro-electrical activity.
M)To use of the basic and applied principles of behavior to solve socially significant problem.
N)Knowledge comes from our senses.
O)The philosophy that behaviorism can also consider many private events as behavior to which the principles of behavior apply.
P)To call an invented explanation a thing.
Q)Research should have useful results.
R)The source of cognitive skills or those cognitive skills themselves.
S)The philosophy that the mind controls behavior
T)Characteristics of species, behavior and societies are selected by their consequences.
U)The use of experimental research to discover ways to use the basic principles of behavior to solve socially significant problems.
V)All events and all things have a cause.

Question 33

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-Knowledge comes from our senses.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 34

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The philosophy that behaviorism can also consider many private events as behavior to which the principles of behavior apply.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 35

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-To call an invented explanation a thing.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 36

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-Research should have useful results.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 37

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The source of cognitive skills or those cognitive skills themselves.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 38

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The philosophy that the mind controls behavior.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 39

Match the following definitions with the terms below.

-___ The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis

A)The Use of experimental research to discover ways to use the basic principles of behavior to solve socially significant problems.
B) The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions.
C)A set of skills.
D)An erroneous view of human behavior that problem behavior is a mere symptom of an underlying psychological condition.
E)The philosophy, that the subject matter of psychology is the study of the effects of environmental variables on behavior, largely through experimental analysis.
F)The, manipulation of events and conditions to evaluate their effects.
G)If a dead man can do it, it probably isn’t behavior
H)The use of experimental research to discover the effects of environmental variables on behavior, resulting in the basic principles of behavior.
I)The philosophy that behaviorism should only deal with events that two or more scientists can observe.
J)Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, General
K)The study of the principles of behavior.
L)A muscular, glandular, or neuro-electrical activity.
M)To use of the basic and applied principles of behavior to solve socially significant problem.
N)Knowledge comes from our senses.
O)The philosophy that behaviorism can also consider many private events as behavior to which the principles of behavior apply.
P)To call an invented explanation a thing.
Q)Research should have useful results.
R)The source of cognitive skills or those cognitive skills themselves.
S)The philosophy that the mind controls behavior
T)Characteristics of species, behavior and societies are selected by their consequences.
U)The use of experimental research to discover ways to use the basic principles of behavior to solve socially significant problems.
V)All events and all things have a cause.

Question 40

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-The use of experimental research to discover ways to use the basic principles of behavior to solve socially significant problems.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 41

Match the following definitions with the terms below.
-All events and all things have a cause.

A)Applied behavior analysis
B)Behavior
C)Behavior Analysis
D)Behaviorism
E)Dead-man test
F)Determinism
G)Empiricism
H)Experimental analysis of behavior
I)Experimentation
J)Selectionism
K)Medical-model myth
L)Methodological behaviorism
M)Mind
N)Mentalism
O)Parsimony
P)Pragmatism
Q)Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
R)Radical behaviorism
S)Repertoire
T)The ... dimensions of applied of applied behavior analysis
U)The error of reification

Question 42

Fill in the Blanks

-Behaviorism
$\bullet$ The philosophy that the subject matter of ________________ is
$\bullet$ the study of the ____________________ of the environmental variables on behavior,
$\bullet$ largely through _____________________ analysis.

Question 43

Fill in the Blanks

-Methodological behaviorism
$\bullet$ The philosophy that ___________________
$\bullet$ should only deal with events that
$\bullet$ _________________ or more scientists can ______________.

Question 44

Fill in the Blanks

-Radical Behaviorism
$\bullet$ The philosophy that ______________________
$\bullet$ can also consider many _____________________ events as behavior.
$\bullet$ to which that ___________________ of behavior apply.

Question 45

Fill in the Blanks

-Mentalism
$\bullet$ The philosophy that the _____________________ controls behavior.

Question 46

Fill in the Blanks

-Mind
$\bullet$ The source of ___________________ skills or
$\bullet$ those _____________________ skills themselves.

Question 47

Fill in the Blanks

-Empiricism
$\bullet$ Knowledge comes from our _____________________.

Question 48

Fill in the Blanks

-Determinism
$\bullet$ All ______________________and things
$\bullet$ have a _____________________.

Question 49

Fill in the Blanks

-Parsimony
$\bullet$ The use of no unnecessary _____________________,
$\bullet$ principles,
$\bullet$ or ______________________.

Question 50

Fill in the Blanks

-Experimentation
$\bullet$ The ______________________ of events or $\bullet$ to _____________________ their effects.

Question 51

Fill in the Blanks

-Pragmatism
$\bullet$ Research should have ____________________ results.

Question 52

Fill in the Blanks

-Selectionism
$\bullet$ Characteristics of species, ____________________, and societies are selected by their ___________________.

Question 53

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-Deadman
$\bullet$ If a dead man ___________________ do it, it probably ___________________ behavior.

Question 54

Fill in the Blanks

-Behavior
$\bullet$ A ___________________, glandular, or neuro-electrical activity.

Question 55

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-Behavior analysis
$\bullet$ The study of the principles of ________________________.

Question 56

Fill in the Blanks

-Experimental analysis of behavior
$\bullet$ The use of _______________________ research to discover
$\bullet$ the ______________________ of the environmental variables on behavior,
$\bullet$ _____________________ in the basic principles of behavior.

Question 57

Fill in the Blanks

-Applied behavior analysis
$\bullet$ The use of experimental research to ____________________
$\bullet$ ways to use the ______________ ______________ __ ______________
$\bullet$ to ________________ socially significant problems.

Question 58

Fill in the Blanks

-Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis
$\bullet$ The use of the basic and _____________________ principles of behavior
$\bullet$ to ______________ socially significant problems.

Question 59

Fill in the Blanks

-Repertoire
$\bullet$ A set of ___________________.

Question 60

Fill in the Blanks

-The error of reification
$\bullet$ To call an invented ___________________ a thing.

Question 61

Fill in the Blanks

-Medical- model myth
$\bullet$ An _______________ view of human behavior---
$\bullet$ that problem behavior is a mere ______________________ of
$\bullet$ an underlying ______________________ condition.

Question 62

Fill in the Blanks

-The Seven Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis
$\bullet$ ________________________
$\bullet$ _______________________
$\bullet$ _______________________
$\bullet$ ______________________
$\bullet$ ________________________
$\bullet$ ______________________
$\bullet$ _____________________

Question 63

Define the following:
-Behaviorism

Question 64

Define the following:
-Methodological behaviorism

Question 65

Define the following:
-Radical behaviorism

Question 66

Define the following:
-Mentalism

Question 67

Define the following:
-Mind

Question 68

Define the following:
-Determinism

Question 69

Define the following:
-Parsimony

Question 70

Define the following:
-Experimentation

Question 71

Define the following:
-Selectionism

Question 72

Define the following:
-Dead-man test

Question 73

Define the following:
-Behavior

Question 74

Define the following:
-Behavior analysis

Question 75

Define the following:
-Experimental analysis of behavior

Question 76

Define the following:
-Applied behavior analysis.

Question 77

Define the following:
-Professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis

Question 78

Define the following:
-Repertoire

Question 79

Define the following:
-The error of reification

Question 80

Define the following:
-The Seven Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis