EDF 6222 Exam 1 & 2 NEWEST
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how did pavlov avoid mentalistic and explanatory fictions?
Correct Answer by controlling conditions that allowed him
to show stimuli can be conditioned
evolutionary explanation for reflexes? Correct Answer for
survival of the organism
Conditioning can never fashion a _____ Correct Answer
novel response
ontogeny Correct Answer -learned beahviors of a
particular animal during its lifetime
-O = one
phylogeny Correct Answer behaviors that have been
passed down over the lifetime of the entire species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic? Correct
Answer when there is no history of the behavior
what do genes do? Correct Answer -predispose an
individual's susceptibility to influence from the environment
-genes do not "cause" behavior they set up physical basis
for behavior to occur
,what does GMI with a mirror do? Correct Answer provides
additional feedback required to receive discriminative
control of the model
what did Miller et al. (2015) find? Correct Answer that
mirrors do facilitate acquisition of motor imitation in
children with ASD
-mirror serves as a discriminative control for the model
What did Correct Answer
where does our understanding of operant behavior
originate from? Correct Answer Darwin's controversial
idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create? Correct Answer Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
-organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant
things and vice versa
Law of effect Correct Answer -Organisms learn through
the consequences of their actions
-Bx decrease when followed by negative stimuli
-Bx increase when followed by pleasant stimuli
what was Skinner's work a continuation of? Correct
Answer Thorndike's Law of Effect
extinction Correct Answer when reinforcement is no longer
provided
, punishment Correct Answer -reduces future frequency of
behavior
-never responsible for skill acquisition
what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning?
Correct Answer consequences
rate of response Correct Answer tendency to engage in
the behavior
Skinner's measure? Correct Answer frequency
responses that were not reinforced for a very long time will
be extinguished ___________ than those with a longer
history of reinforcement Correct Answer sooner
strongest behaviors are maintained by? Correct Answer
intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant Correct Answer -the
nature of a reinforcer is that it increases the behavior
-"ineffective" reinforcers don't exist because a reinforcer is
only a reinforcer if it increases a behavior
what is verbal behavior? Correct Answer behavior that is
reinforced based on the effects that it has on other people
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