Exam 11: Generalization, Discrimination, and Stimulus Control

The kind of generalization your text focuses on is ______.

The CS+ of Pavlovian discrimination training is analogous to the ___ /___of operant discrimination training

Generalization is sometimes called _________.

Harriet gives a monkey a choice between two blocks of wood, one rough and the other smooth. If the animal selects the rough block, it receives a raisin; if it picks the smooth one, it receives nothing. When the animal regularly picks the rough block, Harriet gives the animal a choice between the rough Block of wood and a new block of wood that is even rougher than the first. You predict that the Monkey will _______.

Jill trains her dog, Boozer, to come to her when she snaps her fingers. She snaps her fingers, then gives the dog a bit of food when it approaches. Finger snapping is a(n) _________.

Generalization is a by-product of learning that nearly always occurs spontaneously.

Discuss the DOE and its implications for discrimination training.

A dog learns to salivate at the sound of a soft buzzer, but not at the sound of a loud buzzer. After training, the dog is presented with buzzers of various volumes. You predict that the dog will salivate Most in response to a buzzer that is _______.

If a person smokes a pack of cigarettes a day, in a year, cigarette smoking is reinforced ________.

Frederick believes that discrimination training produces inhibitory as well as excitatory gradients of generalization. Frederick is most likely an advocate of the theory of generalization and discrimination proposed by _______.

Concepts involve both generalization and discrimination.

In _______ discrimination training, the S^D and S^∆ are presented at the same time.

In errorless discrimination training, _______.

How could a speech teacher encourage oratorical skills to generalize outside of the classroom?

The effects of reinforcement generalize, but the effects of extinction and punishment do not.

Response maintenance can be considered generalization across _________.

In ______, the task is to select from two or more alternatives the stimulus that matches a standard.

Explain why a person who is red-green colorblind (that is, red and green objects look gray) is at a disadvantage compared to his or her peers. (inferred, but see especially p.316) This is review question 9. Answers should note that we discriminate objects partly on the basis of color. It is therefore harder for the colorblind person to make discriminations when the colors red or green are involved. A venomous black spider with red spots will be harder for the color blind person to identify.

Some people argue that stimulus control suggests that people are robots controlled by environmental events. How could you argue against this position?

Robert Allan trained pigeons to peck pictures containing human figures. He found that birds ______.