Exam 8: Stimulus Control of Behavior

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.

The best evidence suggests that conditional relationships control behavior

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

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

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

Which of the following most resembles a positive patterning procedure of discrimination training?

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

According to Spence, discrimination training results in

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

Stimulus equivalence training refers to procedures in which

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 is not true of a modulator?

Compare and contrast conditioned excitation and modulatory or occasion setting properties of stimuli.

In a positive patterning procedure of discrimination training

The stimulus-element approach assumes that

Context is an important determinant of learned behavior performance

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

The peak-shift phenomenon is important because it demonstrates that

Your friend has enrolled in a course in music training. The first part of the course involves learning to recognize different tones. Every time the students hear a middle C, they are to raise their right hands. Early in training you expect the stimulus generalization gradient to

Which of the following is true of Spence's theory as applied to the peak-shift phenomenon?