EAB4764 Exam

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What is the problem for the study of behavior with using data from groups of subjects who are exposed to either the control or experimental condition alone?

It leads to data that mixes behavioral variability with intersubject variability.

what are the methodological consequences of assuming the behavioral variability is extrinsic?

It requires the experimenter to focus throughout the study on specific features of the relations between behavior of the individual and the environment.

Kasia has trouble sitting still in class, so her teacher implements a program in which she praises Kasia for staying in her seat. Kasia's sitting behavior increases, and the teacher concludes that her praise was responsible for the change. The teacher does not realize that Kasia has started taking medication that causes fatigue. In this example, the medication is serving as:

an extraneous variable

Variation in features of responding within a single response class as well as variations in the summary measures of that class is referred to as:

behavioral variability

an experiment that compares two different groups of subjects, one of which experiences the independent variable and the other of which does not experience the IV is a _ design

between-groups

What are three kinds of biological influences on variability in behavior?

cyclic physiological processes, developmental processes, and environmental effects on body functions

The phrase ______ refers to how researchers arrange comparisons between control and experimental conditions so as to permit inferences about any effects independent variables may have on responding:

experimental design

the only source of variability whose impact is intentional is that of the:

independent variable's

what is a tactic for managing variabilty?

producing variability in responding by manipulating independent variables

A(n) ______ is an effect of a participant's behavior resulting from exposure to a prior condition:

sequence effect


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