A.1- Identify Goals of Behavior as Science (Description, Prediction, Control)

Which statement demonstrates the level of scientific understanding known as control?

Changing criterion data show that each time the teacher raises the requirement to earn points, good behavior increases.

Which level of scientific understanding is suggested by, "Alternating treatment data show that students are more likely to comply when a token system is in effect than when it is not in effect?"

Control

Which level of scientific understanding is suggested by, "Changing criterion data show that each time the teacher raises the requirement to earn points, good behavior increases?"

Control

Which level of scientific understanding is suggested by, "withdrawal design data indicate that when children get training, scores go up-- when they don't, scores go down?"

Control

The term used to describe the level of scientific understanding obtained through systematic observations that can be quantified and classified is

Description

Which level of scientific understanding is suggested by, "The average duration of responses was three minutes?"

Description

Which level of scientific understanding is suggested by, "The standardized test scores for fourth graders in the district ranged from 75-125?"

Description

The levels of scientific understanding include:

Description, Prediction, Control

In an effort to reduce the cost of trash collection after outdoor athletic events, a campus facilities manager decides to promote recycling. The manager wants to provide the most efficient number of recycling receptacles and asks a student intern to provide descriptive data that would be helpful in making this determination. The intern reviews pilot programs that have been implemented and reports that

Last season, 45% of trash collected at soccer games, by volunteers to recycle and was unchanged in the absence of reminders

Description is the level of understanding

Obtained through systematic observations that can be quantified and classified

Which level of scientific understanding is suggested by, "Children who receive verbal behavior training are more likely to use verbal speech?"

Prediction

Which level of scientific understanding is suggested by, "Users that complete at least 85% of the modules are more likely to pass the exam?"

Prediction

Which statement Demonstrates the level of scientific Understanding known as description?

Standardized test scores for fourth graders in the district ranged from 75-125.

Prediction

The level of scientific understanding that is obtained when two events vary consistently such that one event is likely to co-occur with, but not necessarily cause, the other event is

In an effort to reduce the cost of trash collection after outdoor athletic events, a campus facilities manager decides to promote recycling. The manager wants to provide the most efficient number of recycling receptacles and asks a student intern to provide data that demonstrates control. The intern reviews pilot programs that have been implemented and reports that

The weight of trash at field hockey games went down when fans were reminded by volunteers to recycle and was unchanged in the absence of reminders

Which statement demonstrates the level of scientific understanding known as prediction?

Users who complete at least 85% of the modules are more likely to pass the exam.

Control

When an experimental manipulation of one event results in another event, the level of scientific understanding is referred to as

Control is the level of understanding

that exists that manipulation of one condition repeatedly brings about the occurrence of another condition

Prediction is the level of understanding

that follows from observations that a particular condition is correlated with a particular outcome

In an effort to reduce the cost of trash collection after outdoor athletic events, a campus facilities manager decides to promote recycling. The manager wants to provide the most efficient number of recycling receptacles and asks a student intern to provide predictive data that demonstrates control. The intern reviews pilot programs that have been implemented and reports that

when special receptacles were installed next to trash bins at all home football games, trash collection fees dropped by 11% for the season