EDF 6222 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hefferline and Keenan - ✔✔-rewards were given to participants based on the
tension of their thumb muscle (tension so minuscule you couldn't see it with naked eye)
-frequency of tension increased
-example of a private event that participants were unable to describe what the
contingencies are
-overt influencing covert
✔✔phantom limb - ✔✔an arm or a leg that lingers indefinitely in the minds of patients
long after it has been lost
✔✔____________ are rarely crucial in the practical _____ of human behavior -
✔✔private events, control
✔✔rule-governed behavior - ✔✔behavior that has been generated through exposure to
rules without having experienced consequences
✔✔is thinking a behavior? - ✔✔yes
✔✔recall - ✔✔emit responses when there is an interaction between existing responses
and learning history
, ✔✔what is the solution to a problem? - ✔✔-a response that alters a situation so that a
response can be emitted
-not the terminal response it is the manipulation that occurs to make a response more
probable
✔✔what are behaviors of problem solving? - ✔✔-examining the problem thoroughly
-stating problem in its clearest terms
-trying tentative solutions
-response exists already but can't be emitted
✔✔what does having an idea mean - ✔✔verbal response that is in the learner's
repertoire that is emitted via manipulation of the enviro that makes a response more
likely
✔✔concept of self - ✔✔functionally unified set of responses (allows for variability in
responding that results from variability in the enviro)
✔✔self-knowledge - ✔✔-awareness of one's own behavior as well as the analysis of the
controlling variables of one's own behavior
-also considered reasoning
✔✔where does superstition come from? - ✔✔accidental contingencies
✔✔what further influences superstitious behavior - ✔✔language
✔✔interval schedules - ✔✔time based schedules
✔✔ratio schedules - ✔✔work based schedules
✔✔do fixed schedules occur in natural enviro - ✔✔no
✔✔what is one reason why mentalistic properties are used - ✔✔bcs/ they can't see
schedules of reinforcement and assume it is some magical entity within the brain
responsible for behavior
✔✔good example of DRL - ✔✔if someone asks for few favors we are more likely to
grant them
✔✔matching law - ✔✔quantitative relationship btw/ rates of response and the rates of
reinforcement in concurrent schedules
✔✔what does value mean - ✔✔the type of reinforcer that is effective for a particular
person
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hefferline and Keenan - ✔✔-rewards were given to participants based on the
tension of their thumb muscle (tension so minuscule you couldn't see it with naked eye)
-frequency of tension increased
-example of a private event that participants were unable to describe what the
contingencies are
-overt influencing covert
✔✔phantom limb - ✔✔an arm or a leg that lingers indefinitely in the minds of patients
long after it has been lost
✔✔____________ are rarely crucial in the practical _____ of human behavior -
✔✔private events, control
✔✔rule-governed behavior - ✔✔behavior that has been generated through exposure to
rules without having experienced consequences
✔✔is thinking a behavior? - ✔✔yes
✔✔recall - ✔✔emit responses when there is an interaction between existing responses
and learning history
, ✔✔what is the solution to a problem? - ✔✔-a response that alters a situation so that a
response can be emitted
-not the terminal response it is the manipulation that occurs to make a response more
probable
✔✔what are behaviors of problem solving? - ✔✔-examining the problem thoroughly
-stating problem in its clearest terms
-trying tentative solutions
-response exists already but can't be emitted
✔✔what does having an idea mean - ✔✔verbal response that is in the learner's
repertoire that is emitted via manipulation of the enviro that makes a response more
likely
✔✔concept of self - ✔✔functionally unified set of responses (allows for variability in
responding that results from variability in the enviro)
✔✔self-knowledge - ✔✔-awareness of one's own behavior as well as the analysis of the
controlling variables of one's own behavior
-also considered reasoning
✔✔where does superstition come from? - ✔✔accidental contingencies
✔✔what further influences superstitious behavior - ✔✔language
✔✔interval schedules - ✔✔time based schedules
✔✔ratio schedules - ✔✔work based schedules
✔✔do fixed schedules occur in natural enviro - ✔✔no
✔✔what is one reason why mentalistic properties are used - ✔✔bcs/ they can't see
schedules of reinforcement and assume it is some magical entity within the brain
responsible for behavior
✔✔good example of DRL - ✔✔if someone asks for few favors we are more likely to
grant them
✔✔matching law - ✔✔quantitative relationship btw/ rates of response and the rates of
reinforcement in concurrent schedules
✔✔what does value mean - ✔✔the type of reinforcer that is effective for a particular
person
