EDF 6222 final Exam Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
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? - ✔✔frequency 10-100x
precision teaching - ✔✔method that adjusts the curricula for each learner to maximize learning based
on their own celeration chart
what is one reason why a lesson can be reinforcing? - ✔✔students are able to demonstrate their
knowledge
environment - ✔✔any event in the universe capable of affecting the organism (some of that universe is
private)
how do private events and overt events differ? - ✔✔based on their accessibility
why do we mistrust verbal responses to private events? - ✔✔bcs we can't establish them to be true
covert behavior - ✔✔the internal thoughts or motives that result in outward overt actions.-ex. "What
are you thinking?"
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? - ✔✔frequency 10-100x
precision teaching - ✔✔method that adjusts the curricula for each learner to maximize learning based
on their own celeration chart
what is one reason why a lesson can be reinforcing? - ✔✔students are able to demonstrate their
knowledge
environment - ✔✔any event in the universe capable of affecting the organism (some of that universe is
private)
how do private events and overt events differ? - ✔✔based on their accessibility
why do we mistrust verbal responses to private events? - ✔✔bcs we can't establish them to be true
covert behavior - ✔✔the internal thoughts or motives that result in outward overt actions.-ex. "What
are you thinking?"
