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A form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including provate events such as thoughts and feelings in terms of controling variables in history of a person (ontogeny) and the species (phylogeny)
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A presumed but unobserved process or entity | Hypothetical construct |
| A form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including provate events such as thoughts and feelings in terms of controling variables in history of a person (ontogeny) and the species (phylogeny) | Radical behaviorism |
| natual science approach for discovering ordinary and reliable relations between behaviors and various types of environmental variables of which it functions | Experimental Analysis of behavior |
| A fictitious variable that often is simply another name or the observed behavior that contributes nothing to an understanding of the variables responsible for developing of maintaining the behavior.They are the key ingredient in a "circular way of viewing | Explanatory Fiction |
| Requires that al simple, logical explantations for the phenomenon under investigation be ruled out,experientally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explantions are considered | Parsimony |
| The practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest. Objectivity in this sense mean "independent of the individual prejudices, tastes and private opinions of the scentist. | Empiricism |
| An approach to explaining the behavior that assumes that a mental or "inner" dimension exists that differs from a behavior dimension and that phenomena in this dimension either directly cause or at least mediate some forms of behavior if not all | Mentalism |
| the repeating of experiments (as well as repeating independent variable conditions within experiments) - prevades every nook and cranny of the experimental method. | Replication |
| Reflexive behavior as in the tradition of Ivan Pavlov. Respondents are elicited or "brought out" by stimuli that immediately precede them. (bright light elicits pupil constriction | Respondent Behavior |
| is the science of applying experimentally derived principles of behavior to improve socially significant behavior. | Applied behavior analysis (ABA) |
| is that which is selected by its consequences. The conditioning of operant behavior is the result of reinforcement and punishment. [28] Operant conditioning applies to voluntary responses, which an organism performs deliberately, to produce a desirable o | Operant conditioning |
| All organisms respond in predictable ways to certain stimuli. These stimulus-response relations are called reflexes. The response component of the reflex is called respondent behavior. It is defined as behavior which is elicited by antecedent stimuli. | Respondent conditioning |
| Reinforcement is the most important principle of behavior[30] and a key element of most behavior change programs.[31] It is the process by which behavior is strengthened, if a behavior is followed closely in time by a stimulus and this results in an inc | Reinforcement |
| in psychology refers to the lowering of the probability of a response when a characteristic reinforcing stimulus is no longer presented. In classical conditioning, this refers to the decline of a conditioned response when a conditioned stimulus repeatedl | Extinction |
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