Exam 8: Stimulus Control of Behavior

Which of the following phenomena demonstrates that the greatest level of instrumental performance may occur in response to a novel stimulus?

Other students take advantage of the professor's absence to look on each others' papers.When the professor periodically returns,this behavior stops,only to start again when the professor leaves.This is an example of

The fact that you are less likely to cheer in class than at a football game is an indication that

Modulator effects require that an organism treat the stimulus compound as independent cues.To ensure that this occurs,researchers present the stimuli one after another in what is called a

Describe a way to determine if an animal is demonstrating stimulus discrimination.

What is the configural-cue approach? How does it differ from other approaches to the study of stimulus control?

When pigeons are trained to earn access to food in the presence of a combined light/tone stimulus,the _____ is most likely to control the instrumental behavior.

According to Spence's theory,the peak shift phenomenon occurs because

When dogs were trained to lift their right or left legs in response to an auditory cue,the element that controlled the instrumental behavior was

Assume you would like your therapeutic treatments to generalize to outside settings.Which of the following would you not do?

Which of the following is a true statement about stimulus control?

In the presence of a tone/light cue,pigeons were trained to press a foot treadle to gain access to food or to avoid footshock.Subsequent investigations determined that responding in appetitive situations is more likely to be controlled by visual cues; responding in aversive situations by auditory cues.This demonstrates that

In driving school,you are reinforced for driving into an intersection when the light is green,but not reinforced when the light is red.This is an example of

Dogs are trained with a red-light S+ and a yellow-light S- in context 1.Then,in context 2,the same dogs receive training with a yellow-light S+ and a red-light S-.Assuming they receive the same number of reinforcers in each context during training,what will be the role of the contexts in the subsequent test trials in each context?

When the S+ and S- differ only in terms of one stimulus feature,the training procedure is called

Which of the following is not true of a modulator?

A colorblind dog is trained to press a lever in the presence of a 590 nm wavelength colored light.The stimulus generalization gradient when the dog is tested in the presence of other colors will