Unit 1

6 Attitudes of Science

• Attitudes of science (Einbetten)

Determinism

• The Idea that the world is orderly and lawful
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Empiricism

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• Objective Observation

Parisimony

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• Simplest explanation is best

Philosophic Doubt

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• Continuously questioning

Experimentation

• To investigate if a functional relation exists.

Replication

• The repeating of the experiment. Primary method to determine the reliability and usefulness of findings

7 Dimensions of Behavior

• 7 Characteristics of ABA (Einbetten)
• Acronyms: BATCAGE ; GET A CAB
• Behavioral
• Applied
• Technological
• Conceptually Systematic
• Analytic
• Generality
• Effective

Folie 9

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• Applied: Socially significant
• Behavioral: observable and measurable