PSYC 365 Behaviour Modification Quiz 6 questions
with correct answers
A stimulus appears that is correlated with reinforcement for a response.
We say that the stimulus is _____ for that response.
(a) an equivalent stimulus
(b) an S(delta)
(c) an SD
(d) a releaser Correct Answer-(c) an SD
Loosely speaking, an S(delta) is
(a) a cue that a certain response will be punished
(b) a cue that a certain response will not pay off.
(c) a signal that a reward is on its way
(d) a signal that a new conditioned reinforcer has been established
Correct Answer-(b) A cue that a certain response will not pay off
A physical event or object i one's immediate surroundings that impinges
on one's sensory receptors and can affect a behaviour is called
(a) a stimulus
(b) a reinforcer
(c) a discriminative stimulus
(d) an impinger Correct Answer-(a) a stimulus
,A sign on an office door says "Out or Lunch." The sign is _______ for
knocking on the door.
(a) an SD
(b) an S(delta)
(c) a conditioned response
(d) a fading dimension Correct Answer-(b) an S(delta)
While leafing through a picture book, a child comes to a page with a
photo of a camel and says (out loud) "camel." This exemplifies
(a) an intraverbal
(b) a mand
(c) an echoic
(d) a tact Correct Answer-(d) a tact
A stimulus in the presence of which a response will be reinforced is
called
(a) a conditioned reinforcer
(b) a discriminative stimulus
(c) an S-
(d) an unconditioned stimulus Correct Answer-(b) a discriminative
stimulus
When the general environmental setting changes the way in which we
respond to a certain stimulus, this is an example of
(a) stimulus discrimination training
, (b) stimulus equivalence
(c) contextual control
(d) stimulus control Correct Answer-(c) contextual control
If teaching a child to say "green" in the presence of green objects
increases the likelihood that the child will also say "green" to mint-
coloured objects, we say that ____ has occurred.
(a) response generalization
(b) stimulus generalization
(c) stimulus control
(d) stimulus discrimination Correct Answer-(b) stimulus generalization
As a result of learning to match animal names to animal pictures and
animal pictures to animal sounds, a child is able to match animal names
to animal sounds without having been trained to do this. In this case, the
animal names, animal pictures, and animal sounds compose
(a) an equivalence class
(b) a stimulus class
(c) a common-element stimulus class
(d) a response class Correct Answer-(a) an equivalence class
A stimulus appears that is correlated with extinction for a response. We
say that the stimulus is _____ for that response.
(a) an S(delta)
(b) an SD
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