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| 3 Levels of Scientific Understanding |
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| Description, Prediction, Control |
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| Highest level of scientific understanding. |
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| Second level of scientific understand where repeated observations reveal that two events consistently covary with each other. |
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| Systematic observations that enhance the understanding of a given phenomenon by enabling scientists to describe it accurately. |
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Experimental Analysis of Behavior is a natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter in its own right founded by
B. F. Skinner; methodological features include rate of response as a basic dependent variable, repeated or continuous measurement of clearly defined response classes, within-subject experimental comparisons instead of group design, visual analysis of graphed data instead of statistical inference, and an emphasis on describing functional relations between behavior and controlling variables in the environment over formal theory testing. |
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| Radical Behaviorism (include covert and overt behavior) |
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Radical behaviorism is a form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including private events such as thoughts and feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person (ontogeny) and the species (phylogeny).
Covert behavior is behavior that is internal and not observable.
Overt behavior is behavior that is observable. |
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| Applied Behavior Analysis is the science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior. |
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| Methodological Behaviorism |
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| A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside realm of scient. |
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| Professional standards are written guidelines or rules that provide direction for conducting the practices associated with an organized profession. |
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