Exam 8: Stimulus Control of Behavior

You are attempting to train your dog to sit.Every time you say the word sit and raise your hand,a friend pushes the dog into a sitting position.After a week of training,your dog sits when you speak the command,but still does nothing when you raise your hand.There may be a problem with _____ in this training.

Assume you have a new position as a therapist.What are four things you can do to ensure that the treatment outcomes for your clients will generalize to settings outside your office?

The configural-cue approach asserts that the overshadowing effect is due to

The peak-shift phenomenon is important because it demonstrates that

According to some learning theorists,in order to train a child to sleep through the night,a parent should do all of the following except

A training stimulus of a red square inside of a yellow circle was used in a keypeck experiment with pigeons.In a follow-up experiment,one trained pigeon was found to respond more to a red square than a yellow circle.Another trained pigeon responded more to the yellow circle.This demonstrates that

Describe the difference between intradimensional- and interdimensional- discrimination training.

Explain how the type of reinforcement provided can contribute to stimulus control.

A flat stimulus generalization gradient indicates that subjects are

Which of the following best states the distribution of stimulus control over the instrumental behavior of pigeons?

Dogs trained on a go/no-go discrimination rather than a right-left discrimination learned to respond mainly to which feature of the cues?

Which of the following is not true of Spence's theory as applied to the peak shift phenomenon?

Modulators serve to

For one group of pigeons,a black vertical bar on a white key light served as the S+ and the blank key light the S-.For another,the bar served as the S- and the blank key light the S+.When the bar was rotated toward the horizontal,the first group decreased pecking,and the second increased pecking.This demonstrates that

Describe the relationship between stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization.

Which of the following tones will result in the greatest peak-shift phenomenon?

Your professor tells you that your dog is demonstrating stimulus discrimination.This means that

The best evidence suggests that conditional relationships control behavior

A tone signals that a red light will be followed by food delivery.Without the tone,food does not follow the red light presentation.After some training,the tone is repeatedly presented alone.You expect that its ability to facilitate the CR will be

In an instrumental discrimination procedure,which of the following serves as a modulator?