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#1. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) is conducting an initial intake interview with parents regarding their child’s severe problem behaviors, which include aggression and self-injury. The parents, visibly distressed, explain, ‘Sometimes, he just explodes with aggression for absolutely no reason at all. It seems to come completely out of nowhere, and we have no idea why it happens.’ From an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) perspective, this statement most directly contradicts which fundamental attitude of science?
Determinism is a foundational attitude of science in ABA postulating that the universe is a lawful and orderly place and that all phenomena including behavior occur as a result of other events It asserts that behavior is not random spontaneous or out of nowhere but rather is caused by specific environmental andor biological factors that can be identified and analyzed When the parents state that behavior happens for no reason or out of nowhere they are directly contradicting the principle of determinism which underpins the scientific search for functional relationships between behavior and its environmental antecedents and consequences Parsimony refers to the practice of seeking the simplest most logical explanation for a phenomenon requiring that all simple logical explanations be ruled out before more complex ones are considered Philosophical doubt encourages scientists to continually question the truthfulness of scientific findings and theories maintaining a healthy skepticism Empiricism is the objective observation of the phenomena of interest While a lack of adherence to determinism might hinder empirical investigation or the pursuit of parsimonious explanations determinism is the direct principle being violated by the out of nowhere statement as it denies the lawful and orderly nature of behavior
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