EDF 6222 EXAM 1 & 2 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS.
1. Dr. Ader investigate -correct answer - food aversion in
mice
2. How much presentations of food do kidws need -correct
answer - 10-20 for typical
50-100 for atypical
-most interventions use escape extinction
3. Fryling et al. Studied? -correct answer - antecedent based
intervention for food selectivity using high p procedure
-easy to implement and food acceptance generalized
-used high p foods to increase acceptance of low p foods
4. How much of modern medicine is actually effective? -correct answer
- 1/5
5. What is language development related to? -correct answer - number
of words spoken to children by their parents
-welfare-recipient family could have heard 32 million fewer words
,6. What is attention among friends -correct answer - generalized
conditioned reinforcer
7. Why were Henkel's students memories impaired -correct answer - bcs/
they were relying on external memory aid, att was placed on the camera
instead of the image we were trying to capture
8. What is the most effective form of parenting? -correct answer - ignoring
the unwanted behavior and finding ways to encourage the positive
opposite
-efraining from punishment can reduce vandalism, tantrums, and
substance abuse
9. Social media opinion on reinforcement -correct answer - suggests
praise is spoiling and promotes helplessness, high ego, and
unaccountability
-5;1 ratio is best
10. Problem with praise -correct answer - empty praise
-you want specific, immediate, and warranted praise (not generic)
11. Helicopter parenting -correct answer - -errorless learning in all
aspects of parenting
-children do need to fail
, 12. Self-control -correct answer - -difficult bcs/ long term
consequences are delayed
-
13. How can rules be rewarding? -correct answer - when
expectations are clear and concise and when the rules are imposed
someone else
14. In natural learning what is the teacher -correct answer - the enviro
15. What does skinner think of natural learning -correct answer - real
world is not an effective teacher
-physical enviro breed awkward, dangerous, superstitious behavior
16. Education -correct answer - -arranging contingencies that
facilitate learning
- don't assume underlying abilities of students
-bcbas look at the contingencies of learning situation to
understand why learning has not taken place
17. First human applications of operant conditioning -correct
answer - derived from those diagnosed with mental illness
AND ANSWERS.
1. Dr. Ader investigate -correct answer - food aversion in
mice
2. How much presentations of food do kidws need -correct
answer - 10-20 for typical
50-100 for atypical
-most interventions use escape extinction
3. Fryling et al. Studied? -correct answer - antecedent based
intervention for food selectivity using high p procedure
-easy to implement and food acceptance generalized
-used high p foods to increase acceptance of low p foods
4. How much of modern medicine is actually effective? -correct answer
- 1/5
5. What is language development related to? -correct answer - number
of words spoken to children by their parents
-welfare-recipient family could have heard 32 million fewer words
,6. What is attention among friends -correct answer - generalized
conditioned reinforcer
7. Why were Henkel's students memories impaired -correct answer - bcs/
they were relying on external memory aid, att was placed on the camera
instead of the image we were trying to capture
8. What is the most effective form of parenting? -correct answer - ignoring
the unwanted behavior and finding ways to encourage the positive
opposite
-efraining from punishment can reduce vandalism, tantrums, and
substance abuse
9. Social media opinion on reinforcement -correct answer - suggests
praise is spoiling and promotes helplessness, high ego, and
unaccountability
-5;1 ratio is best
10. Problem with praise -correct answer - empty praise
-you want specific, immediate, and warranted praise (not generic)
11. Helicopter parenting -correct answer - -errorless learning in all
aspects of parenting
-children do need to fail
, 12. Self-control -correct answer - -difficult bcs/ long term
consequences are delayed
-
13. How can rules be rewarding? -correct answer - when
expectations are clear and concise and when the rules are imposed
someone else
14. In natural learning what is the teacher -correct answer - the enviro
15. What does skinner think of natural learning -correct answer - real
world is not an effective teacher
-physical enviro breed awkward, dangerous, superstitious behavior
16. Education -correct answer - -arranging contingencies that
facilitate learning
- don't assume underlying abilities of students
-bcbas look at the contingencies of learning situation to
understand why learning has not taken place
17. First human applications of operant conditioning -correct
answer - derived from those diagnosed with mental illness
