Exam 8: Stimulus Control of Behavior

Suppose you want your goldfish to swim to the top of the tank only when you shine a red light, and no other color, into the water.Assuming the fish can see most colors, to condition the fish you should

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

Describe the phenomenon of overshadowing and describe how it may be explained by elemental and configural approaches to 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.

After eating a foot-long spicy chili dog at the homecoming game, your friend becomes violently ill.Now he cannot stand to eat chili, but still loves hot dogs.His ability to eat hot dogs was likely spared because of

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

Describe the role of contextual cues in the control of a common human behavior.

The extent to which an organism learns about a stimulus depends on how easily other stimuli in the environment can become conditioned.This phenomenon is called

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.

Describe two changes that take place at the level of the synapse in long-term potentiation.

Which of the following is not true of a modulator?

A pigeon is trained to peck in the presence of a 500 nm wavelength light and is not reinforced for pecking in the presence of a 510 nm wavelength light.After training, most performance will be demonstrated in response to a

According to Spence's theory of discrimination learning, discrimination training results in

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

Which of the following pairs of stimuli is least likely to result in a peak-shift effect?

A flat stimulus generalization gradient indicates that subjects are

Context is an important determinant of learned behavior performance

If a researcher is interested in determining with rat subjects whether the effects of alcohol are similar to the effect of opiates, she could use a procedure employing

Which of the following stimuli could be used in an intradimensional discrimination procedure?

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