EDF 6222 Final Exam Questions With 100%
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What is the philosphoy of human behavior? - answer✔Behaviorism
Ontogeny - answer✔-learned beahviors of a particular animal during its lifetime
Phylogeny - answer✔behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire
species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic? - answer✔when there is no history of the behavior
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 does our understanding of operant behavior originate from? - answer✔Darwin's
controversial idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create? - 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 - answer✔-Organisms learn through the consequences of their actions
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-Bx decrease when followed by negative stimuli
-Bx increase when followed by pleasant stimuli
what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning? - answer✔consequences/positive
reinforcement
rate of response - answer✔frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by? - answer✔intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant - 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 do verbal communities influence? - answer✔repertoire of the speaker
how do words develop meaning? - answer✔by the listener's responses to the word
what is a referent - answer✔-every term must have an entity to which it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage? - answer✔frequency 10-
100x
precision teaching - answer✔method that adjusts the curricula for each learner to maximize
learning based on their own celeration chart