Exam 8: Stimulus Control of Behavior

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.

A drug has been developed to keep Mg++ in the NMDA receptor. You predict this will

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

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

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

According to the configural-cue approach,

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

For one group of pigeons, a black vertical bar on a white key light served as the S+ and the blank key light the S-. For another, the bar served as the S- and the blank key light the S+. When the bar was rotated toward the horizontal, the first group decreased pecking, and the second increased pecking. This demonstrates that

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

Modulators serve to

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

Describe the ways in which contextual cues can come to control behavior.

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

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

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

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

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

A flat stimulus generalization gradient indicates that subjects are

In the peak-shift phenomenon, the peak performance shifts