Exam 10: Generalization, Discrimination, and Stimulus

Discuss whether stimulus control is a good thing.

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

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.

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 .

Bill conducts an experiment in which he pairs the word psychologist with words such as nasty, evil, and corrupt.Later Bill asks his subjects to give their opinion of various professions by rating them on a scale from very positive to very negative.Of the following professions, will probably receive the lowest rating.

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