Of the Four Goals of Behavioral Science, Description of Behavior

question 40

Multiple Choice

Of the four goals of behavioral science, description of behavior involves:

• A)careful observation of things that are observable such as eye gaze and running speed.
• B)regular observation of a specific behavior to ensure that two events are systematically related to one another.
• C)explaining the events that have been previously described.
• D)understanding the reason behind the occurrence of certain types of behavior.

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Definitions:

Bootstrapping

A statistical method that resamples a single dataset to create many simulated samples, used in assessing the precision of sample estimates.

Resamples

The practice of repeatedly drawing samples from a given dataset with the intention of estimating a population parameter.

With Replacement

Sampling with replacement is a method where each selected unit is returned to the population before the next unit is selected, allowing it to be possibly chosen more than once.

Bootstrapping Method

A resampling technique used in statistics to estimate the distribution of a statistic by sampling with replacement from the original dataset.