EDF 6222 Practice Questions with Correct
Answers
According to the video, what behavioral intervention could assist with food selectivity:
Discrimination Training
According to the video, what image was paired with a respiratory irritant that
eventually caused asthma attacks via the image alone?
Flower
What behavioral principle best explains the placebo effect?
Verbal behavior
Match each argument to whether we should continue to distinguish between operant
conditioning and respondent conditioning or whether we should drop the distinction.
In Favor of Dropping the Distinction
- Conceptual Integration
- The overlap and similarities between the two
In Favor of Continuing the Distinction
- Theoretical Clarity
-Explanatory Power
- Historical Context
- Parsimonious
What is the best explanation for why we describe the brain like a computer (according
to Robert Epstein)?
Because computers are the biggest invention of our time and serve as the best metaphor.
Answers
According to the video, what behavioral intervention could assist with food selectivity:
Discrimination Training
According to the video, what image was paired with a respiratory irritant that
eventually caused asthma attacks via the image alone?
Flower
What behavioral principle best explains the placebo effect?
Verbal behavior
Match each argument to whether we should continue to distinguish between operant
conditioning and respondent conditioning or whether we should drop the distinction.
In Favor of Dropping the Distinction
- Conceptual Integration
- The overlap and similarities between the two
In Favor of Continuing the Distinction
- Theoretical Clarity
-Explanatory Power
- Historical Context
- Parsimonious
What is the best explanation for why we describe the brain like a computer (according
to Robert Epstein)?
Because computers are the biggest invention of our time and serve as the best metaphor.
