EDF 6222 FINAL EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
What is the philosphoy of human behavior? - ANS Behaviorism
Ontogeny - ANS -learned beahviors of a particular animal during its lifetime
Phylogeny - ANS behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire
species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic? - ANS when there is no history of the behavior
what did Miller et al. (2015) find? - ANS 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? - ANS Darwin's
controversial idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create? - ANS Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
-organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant things and vice versa
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, Law of effect - ANS -Organisms learn through the consequences of their actions
-Bx decrease when followed by negative stimuli
-Bx increase when followed by pleasant stimuli
what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning? - ANS consequences/positive
reinforcement
rate of response - ANS frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by? - ANS intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant - ANS -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? - ANS repertoire of the speaker
how do words develop meaning? - ANS by the listener's responses to the word
what is a referent - ANS -every term must have an entity to which it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage? - ANS frequency 10-
100x
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
What is the philosphoy of human behavior? - ANS Behaviorism
Ontogeny - ANS -learned beahviors of a particular animal during its lifetime
Phylogeny - ANS behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire
species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic? - ANS when there is no history of the behavior
what did Miller et al. (2015) find? - ANS 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? - ANS Darwin's
controversial idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create? - ANS Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
-organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant things and vice versa
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Law of effect - ANS -Organisms learn through the consequences of their actions
-Bx decrease when followed by negative stimuli
-Bx increase when followed by pleasant stimuli
what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning? - ANS consequences/positive
reinforcement
rate of response - ANS frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by? - ANS intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant - ANS -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? - ANS repertoire of the speaker
how do words develop meaning? - ANS by the listener's responses to the word
what is a referent - ANS -every term must have an entity to which it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage? - ANS frequency 10-
100x
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
