Exam 8: Stimulus Control of Behavior

According to Spence, discrimination training results in

Stimulus equivalence training refers to procedures in which

Which of the following tones will result in the greatest peak-shift phenomenon?

How might a music teacher use learning factors of stimulus control to train students to recognize different tones?

A cat is trained to hit a suspended ball in the presence of a red light.Presentations of other lights were not followed by any reinforcers if the cat hit the ball.According to Spence, the cat learned

Which of the following best states the distribution of stimulus control over the instrumental behavior of pigeons?

In an instrumental discrimination procedure, which of the following serves as a modulator?

Your roommate gets excited every time he receives mail.Even junk mailings bring him joy.His behavior towards the mail demonstrates

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

Your professor tells you that your dog is demonstrating stimulus discrimination.This means that

A steep stimulus generalization gradient indicates that

A training stimulus of a red square inside of a yellow circle was used in a keypeck experiment with pigeons.In a follow-up experiment, one trained pigeon was found to respond more to a red square than a yellow circle.Another trained pigeon responded more to the yellow circle.This demonstrates that

Describe how the steepness of a generalization gradient may be altered by experience and learning.

Damage to the hippocampus most severely affects which type of memory?

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

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

In the peak-shift phenomenon, the peak performance shifts

Describe Spence's theory of discrimination learning.What evidence supports this theory? How does this theory account for the peak-shift effect?

Explain how the type of reinforcement provided can contribute to stimulus control.