Unit 5 Quiz Flashcards
Jill trains her dog, Bowser, to come to her when she snaps her fingers. She snaps her fingers, then give the dog a bit of food when it approaches. Finger snapping is a
S+
When a behaviour reliably occurs in the presence of an S+ but not in the presence of an S- negative, we can say the behaviour is
Under stimulus control
Bill conducts an experiment in which he pairs the word psychologist with words such as nasty, evil, and corrupt. Later, Bill asks his subjects to give their opinion of various professions by rating them on a scale from very positive to very negative. Of the following professions, ______ will probably receive the lowest rating
Mathematician, accountant, mechanic, biologist
Biologist
In _____ discrimination training, the S+ and S- are presented at the same time
Simultaneous
The finding of Eisenberger and others that rewarding a high level of effort on one task increases the level of effort on other tasks is called
Learned industriousness
Providing different consequences for different responses can enhance discrimination training. This finding is called the
Differential outcomes effect
A dog learns to salivate at the sound of a soft buzzer, but not at the sound of a loud buzzer. After training, the dog is presented with buzzers of various volumes. You predict that the dog was salivate most in response to a buzzer that is
Slightly softer than the CS+
In their study, Dweck and Repucci had teachers give students unsolvable problems and then problems that could be solved. The result was that the students
Failed to solve the problems in the second set
When Little Joey, now six months old, cries, Martha can tell what he needs even before she goes to him. Martha’s skill is an example of
Discrimination
When generalization is based on abstract rather than physical features, it is called
Semantic generalization
Bill conduct an experiment in which she pairs the word psychologist with words such as nasty, evil, and corrupt. Later, Bill asks his subjects to give their opinion of various professions by rating them on a scale from very positive two very negative. The hypothetical finding is called
Semantic generalization
The kind of generalization discussed in your text is
Stimulus generalization
According to your text, mental rotation data are best viewed as evidence of
Generalization
Howard studied hard for his math test and found that what he learned helped him on his physics test. Howard benefitted from
Generalization
True or false: when we speak of concepts we are speaking of discriminations
True
