Behaviorism and Experimental Designs

What is the term for the study of observable behavior and its explanation by principles of learning?

• Methodological behaviorism

• Behaviorism

• Radical behaviorism

• Mentalism

What is the term for a branch of behaviorism that considers thoughts and feelings as behaviors to be analyzed?

• A) Methodological behaviorism

• B) Radical behaviorism

• C) Empiricism

• D) Determinism

What is the term for a philosophical position that considers only observable behavior as the subject of scientific study?

• Methodological behaviorism

• Mentalism

• Empiricism

• Determinism

What is the term for the belief that behavior is determined by environmental factors?

• Empiricism

• Determinism

• Radical behaviorism

• Mentalism

What is the term for the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience?

• Empiricism

• Behaviorism

• Methodological behaviorism

• Mentalism

What is the term for the belief in the existence of mental states that cannot be observed?

• A) Mentalism

• B) Radical behaviorism

• C) Empiricism

• D) Determinism

An experimental design in which two or more treatments are alternated rapidly under the same general conditions while measuring the same dependent variable is known as ________.

• Alternating treatments design.

• Randomized controlled trial.

• Cross-sectional study.

• Longitudinal study.

An experimental design in which an intervention parameter is gradually manipulated in a series of phases is known as ________.

• Changing criterion design.

• Randomized controlled trial.

• Cross-sectional study.

• Longitudinal study.

Fill in the blank: The term for the view that ideas are good if they have useful results is __________.

• pragmatism

• idealism

• realism

• existentialism

Fill in the blank: The term for the practice of creating explanations that exclude unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions is __________.

• Occam's Razor

• Rube Goldberg Machine

• Murphy's Law

• Newton's Third Law