Exam 8: Stimulus Control of Behavior

Stimulus control of instrumental behavior is demonstrated by which of the following?

From which receptor subtype must Mg++ be removed for long-term potentiation to occur

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?

A hamster is trained to push a lever to earn a food pellet each time it hears a bell.When a buzzer sounds, pushing the lever does not result in food delivery.The hamster quickly learns to respond to the bell and does not respond to the buzzer.We can conclude

A loud buzzer is paired with a dim light as a signal for a dog to press a lever to gain access to food.The dog quickly learns to respond to the buzzer alone, but does not learn to respond vigorously to the light alone.According to the configural-cue approach, this is because of

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

What does the steepness of a stimulus generalization reveal to a researcher?

Describe the relationship between stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization.

What are some of the differences between conditioned excitation and modulation?

The stimulus-element approach assumes that

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?

The peak-shift phenomenon is important because it demonstrates that

Modulators serve to

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

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

Which of the following conditioning procedures will result in the steepest stimulus generalization gradient?

In a positive patterning procedure of discrimination training

In a stimulus discrimination procedure, subjects are

According to the configural-cue approach,

Which of the following conditioning procedures will result in the flattest stimulus generalization gradient?