EDF 6222 Final Exam Questions And Accurate Answers
what is the philosphoy of human behavior? - Answer Behaviourism
Ontogeny - Answer -learned beahviours of a particular animal during its lifetime
Phylogeny - Answer behaviours that have been passed on over lifetime of the whole
species
how do you know its phylogenic behaviour? - Answer when history of behaviour is nil
what did Miller et al. (2015) find? - Answer that mirrors do facilitate acquisition of motor
imitation in children with ASD-mirror serves as a discriminative control for the model
where do we derive our knowledge of operant behavior from? - Answer Darwin's
unpopular theory that humans are not special in their learning capabilities
What did Thorndike develop? - Answer Law of effect
-trial and error form of explanation
-organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant things and vice versa
Law of effect - Response -Organisms learn through the consequences of their actions
-Bx decrease when followed by negative stimuli
-Bx increase when followed by pleasant stimuli
what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning? - Response
consequences/positive reinforcement
, rate of response - Response frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by? - Response intermittent reinforcement
why "effective" is redundant in "effective" reinforcer - Answer -by its very nature a
reinforcer increases the behavior
-"ineffective" reinforcers do not exist because by definition a reinforcer is only a
reinforcer when it increases a behavior
what do verbal communities affect? - Answer repertoire of the speaker
how do words get their meaning? - Answer through listener's reponses to the word
what is a referent - Answer -each term shall have an entity to which it refers
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage? - Answer
frequency 10-100x
precision teaching - Answer a method that adjusts the curricula for each learner to
maximize learning based on their own celeration chart
What is one reason why a lesson can be reinforcing? Answer students are allowed to
demonstrate their knowledge
environment Answer any event in the universe capable of affecting the organism (some
of that universe is private)
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