EDF 6222 CORRECT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔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 do genes do? - ✔✔-predispose an individual's susceptibility to influence from
the environment
-genes do not "cause" behavior they set up physical basis for behavior to occur
✔✔what does GMI with a mirror do? - ✔✔provides additional feedback required to
receive discriminative control of the model
✔✔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
✔✔What did - ✔✔
, ✔✔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 was Skinner's work a continuation of? - ✔✔Thorndike's Law of Effect
✔✔extinction - ✔✔when reinforcement is no longer provided
✔✔punishment - ✔✔-reduces future frequency of behavior
-never responsible for skill acquisition
✔✔what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning? - ✔✔consequences
✔✔three-term contingency - ✔✔antecedent, behavior, consequence
✔✔rate of response - ✔✔tendency to engage in the behavior
✔✔Skinner's measure? - ✔✔frequency
✔✔responses that were not reinforced for a very long time will be extinguished
___________ than those with a longer history of reinforcement - ✔✔sooner
✔✔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 is verbal behavior? - ✔✔behavior that is reinforced based on the effects that it
has on other people
✔✔what do verbal communities influence? - ✔✔repertoire of the speaker
✔✔language - ✔✔interactions that take place between speakers and listeners
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔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 do genes do? - ✔✔-predispose an individual's susceptibility to influence from
the environment
-genes do not "cause" behavior they set up physical basis for behavior to occur
✔✔what does GMI with a mirror do? - ✔✔provides additional feedback required to
receive discriminative control of the model
✔✔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
✔✔What did - ✔✔
, ✔✔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 was Skinner's work a continuation of? - ✔✔Thorndike's Law of Effect
✔✔extinction - ✔✔when reinforcement is no longer provided
✔✔punishment - ✔✔-reduces future frequency of behavior
-never responsible for skill acquisition
✔✔what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning? - ✔✔consequences
✔✔three-term contingency - ✔✔antecedent, behavior, consequence
✔✔rate of response - ✔✔tendency to engage in the behavior
✔✔Skinner's measure? - ✔✔frequency
✔✔responses that were not reinforced for a very long time will be extinguished
___________ than those with a longer history of reinforcement - ✔✔sooner
✔✔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 is verbal behavior? - ✔✔behavior that is reinforced based on the effects that it
has on other people
✔✔what do verbal communities influence? - ✔✔repertoire of the speaker
✔✔language - ✔✔interactions that take place between speakers and listeners
