Exam 11: Generalization, Discrimination, and Stimulus Control

In a classic study, Guttman and Kalish trained pigeons to peck a disc of a particular color, and then gave them the opportunity to peck ________.

Look again at figures in the previous item. The one that shows the greatest degree of discrimination is Figure ______.

When six-month old Joey cries, his mother, Martha, can tell what he needs even before she goes to him. Martha's skill is an example of ______.

An ________ is a stimulus that indicates that a particular behavior will be reinforced.

Arthur Bachrach and colleagues demonstrated generalization of therapy in their treatment of a woman suffering from an eating disorder called ________.

In the ________discrimination training procedure, the discriminative stimuli alternate.

In stimulus generalization, a behavior "travels" from one situation to another.

According to your text, mental rotation data are best viewed as evidence of ______.

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

With discrimination training, pigeons have learned to discriminate between paintings by Monet and Picasso, even when the pictures were ones they had never seen before.

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

Herrnstein and others trained pigeons to respond to images of people. The researchers did this by pinpointing a single defining feature (such as hair) on which the birds could discriminate humans from other objects. Completion

Oddity ________ is a form of MTS in which reinforcement is contingent on selecting a stimulus that is different from the sample.

The flatter the generalization curve, the greater the degree of generalization.