Exam 2: The Study of Learning and Behavior

In a cumulative record, learning is indicated by a change in response .

Learning researchers note that results with humans usually parallel those with animals.

One highly readable little book on research methods mentioned in your text is called .

One thing researchers can control better with animal subjects than with human subjects is .

Speed and rate are different terms for the same measure of learning.

Balster and colleagues suggest that inhumane treatment of research animals is .

A person who says, "Everyone knows that...." is referring to .

The school of thought that rejects scientific method and claims that science is just a debate about an unknowable reality is called .

In group-design experiments, researchers often use to reduce differences among participants.

The natural science approach emphasizes physical events.

Any variable an experimenter manipulates is a/an variable.

In within-subject experiments, each subject's performance is compared with its performance during a .

called learning the "great problem in all human psychology."

Experiments done in natural settings are called .

A teacher who looks for an increase in the number of correct performances per minute is using as a measure of learning.

Using an ABA reversal design is rather like using a .

The kind of experiment that is most likely to require statistical analysis is a .

When a behavior is defined by the procedure used to measure it, the definition is said to be .

A explanation is one in which the evidence for the explanation of an event is the event itself.

Fluency is also known as .