EDF 6222 Midterm Questions and Answers |
2026 Updated Practice Questions | Grade
A+
• Scientifically skeptical -✓✓Until there is evidence available, assumptions cannot
be made
• structionalism -✓✓relied on introspection which looks inward to describe
sensations, positivism and feelings
• methodological -✓✓thought of as a psychological version of logical positivism
or operationism
• ontogeny -✓✓is a learned behavior of a particular animal during its lifetim
• phylogency -✓✓behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the
entire species
• Behaviorism -✓✓Behaviorism is not the science of human behavior; it is the
philosophy of that science (Skinner, 1974 pg 3)
• Pavlov -✓✓1. Respondent conditioning
2. he carefully controlled conditions that allowed him to show that particular
stimuli can acquire (respond) the ability to elicit secretion
3. He avoided BOTH mentalistic and explanatory fictions
• conditioning -✓✓1. extends the scope of eliciting stimulus
, 2. does NOT bring all the behavior within stimulus control
3. can add different eliciting stimuli but will never fashion a novel response
• contingencies of reinforcement -✓✓have edge for survival b/c prediction and
control and the conditions under which a species acquires behavior are relatively
accessible and can be manipulated
• genes -✓✓predispose an individual's susceptibility to the influences from the
environment.
Genes do not cause behavior- they set up physical basis for the processes and
structures that participate in behavior.
• imitative responses -✓✓require the learner to orient towards the model NOT
topographical correspondence of the behavior
• Law of Effect (Thorndike) -✓✓Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by
pleasant stimulus become more likely (increase), and that behaviors followed by
negative stimulus become less likely (decrease)
• free will -✓✓operant conditioning does NOT suggest that organisms cannot
control their own behaviors b/c of lack of free will.
Operant conditioning states that once the environment is understood, it can be
altered in our favor
• extinction -✓✓when reinforcement is no longer present
must have reinforcement history to determine resistance to extinction
shorter periods will extinguish sooner
longer history will take more time
2026 Updated Practice Questions | Grade
A+
• Scientifically skeptical -✓✓Until there is evidence available, assumptions cannot
be made
• structionalism -✓✓relied on introspection which looks inward to describe
sensations, positivism and feelings
• methodological -✓✓thought of as a psychological version of logical positivism
or operationism
• ontogeny -✓✓is a learned behavior of a particular animal during its lifetim
• phylogency -✓✓behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the
entire species
• Behaviorism -✓✓Behaviorism is not the science of human behavior; it is the
philosophy of that science (Skinner, 1974 pg 3)
• Pavlov -✓✓1. Respondent conditioning
2. he carefully controlled conditions that allowed him to show that particular
stimuli can acquire (respond) the ability to elicit secretion
3. He avoided BOTH mentalistic and explanatory fictions
• conditioning -✓✓1. extends the scope of eliciting stimulus
, 2. does NOT bring all the behavior within stimulus control
3. can add different eliciting stimuli but will never fashion a novel response
• contingencies of reinforcement -✓✓have edge for survival b/c prediction and
control and the conditions under which a species acquires behavior are relatively
accessible and can be manipulated
• genes -✓✓predispose an individual's susceptibility to the influences from the
environment.
Genes do not cause behavior- they set up physical basis for the processes and
structures that participate in behavior.
• imitative responses -✓✓require the learner to orient towards the model NOT
topographical correspondence of the behavior
• Law of Effect (Thorndike) -✓✓Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by
pleasant stimulus become more likely (increase), and that behaviors followed by
negative stimulus become less likely (decrease)
• free will -✓✓operant conditioning does NOT suggest that organisms cannot
control their own behaviors b/c of lack of free will.
Operant conditioning states that once the environment is understood, it can be
altered in our favor
• extinction -✓✓when reinforcement is no longer present
must have reinforcement history to determine resistance to extinction
shorter periods will extinguish sooner
longer history will take more time
