EDF 6222 Final Exam Review – Q&A Unique to humans is... ✔️Ans - the ability for language to further influence superstitious behavior Superstitious behavior arises from... ✔️Ans - accidental contingencies Superstitious behavior illustrates that... ✔️Ans - reinforcement is effective even if it isn't related to the behavior that follows What schedules are most likely in the natural environment ✔️Ans - Variable schedules Matching law ✔️Ans - Quantitative relationship between rates of response and rates of reinforcement in concurrent schedules Long-term consequences are ✔️Ans - delayed Speed and effectiveness of punishment ✔️Ans - The more delayed the punishment, the less effective it is Belushi effect of drug tolerance ✔️Ans - Removal of the conditioned stimulus (the environment) allowed the drug to effect him differently, causing overdose The US Office of Technology assessments estimates that __ of modern medical treatments in common use have been proved as effective ✔️Ans - 1/5 Hart & Risley study ✔️Ans - Conducted to look for the cause of the disparity in linguistic progress among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds Children who come from a welfare background have __ as much experience per hour with words being spoken to them than a working class child ✔️Ans
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Children who come from a welfare background have __ as much experience per hour with words being spoken to them than a professional class child ✔️Ans - 1/3 Should children be exposed to natural negative consequences ✔️Ans - Yes What makes praise so effective ✔️Ans - Being specific, immediate, and warranted - not generic Traditional viewpoints of mental health ✔️Ans - Involve mentalistic and unobservable causes Why is talk therapy useful ✔️Ans - We all want positive social reinforcement Strategty of community policing from an ABA standpoint ✔️Ans - Prejudice and stereotypes are nothing but overgeneralization Philosophy of the science of human behavior ✔️Ans - Behaviorism What do we rely on as a philosophy of human behavior ✔️Ans - Structuralism Normand 2009 about being skeptical ✔️Ans - Examine the available evidence before making a decision What do we need to consider to evaluate empirical evidence? ✔️Ans - Ensure that IOA has been demonstrated and experimental control was established Why does conditioning only go so far to explain human behavior? ✔️Ans - Adds countless stimuli but no new responses Ontogeny ✔️Ans - Individual Phylogeny ✔️Ans - Species If Pavlov settled on psychic secretions as an explanation to the phenomena he observed, we would say he relied on... ✔️Ans - mentalistic explanations and hypothetical constructs
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