EDF 6222 Study Guide Questions with Correct
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what is the philosphoy of human behavior?
Behaviorism
Ontogeny
-learned beahviors of a particular animal during its lifetime
Phylogeny
behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic?
when there is no history of the behavior
what did Miller et al. (2015) find?
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?
Darwin's controversial idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create?
Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
-organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant things and vice versa
Law of effect
, -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?
consequences/positive reinforcement
rate of response
frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by?
intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant
-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?
repertoire of the speaker
how do words develop meaning?
by the listener's responses to the word
what is a referent
-every term must have an entity to which it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage?
Answers
what is the philosphoy of human behavior?
Behaviorism
Ontogeny
-learned beahviors of a particular animal during its lifetime
Phylogeny
behaviors that have been passed down over the lifetime of the entire species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic?
when there is no history of the behavior
what did Miller et al. (2015) find?
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?
Darwin's controversial idea that humans are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create?
Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
-organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant things and vice versa
Law of effect
, -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?
consequences/positive reinforcement
rate of response
frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by?
intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant
-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?
repertoire of the speaker
how do words develop meaning?
by the listener's responses to the word
what is a referent
-every term must have an entity to which it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or precentage?
