EDF 6222 Final Exam Review
Question and Answer Latest
2026 Update!!!
what is the philosphoy of human behavior?
Correct Answer: Behaviorism
Ontogeny
Correct Answer: -learned beahviors of a particular animal
during its lifetime
Phylogeny
Correct Answer: behaviors that have been passed down
over the lifetime of the entire species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic?
Correct Answer: when there is no history of the behavior
what did Miller et al. (2015) find?
Correct Answer: that mirrors do facilitate acquisition of
motor imitation in children with ASD-mirror serves as a
discriminative control for the model
where does our understanding of operant behavior
originate from?
Correct Answer: Darwin's controversial idea that humans
are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create?
Correct Answer: Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
1
, -organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant
things and vice versa
Law of effect
Correct Answer: -Organisms learn through the
consequences of their actions
-Bx decrease when followed by negative stimuli
-Bx increase when followed by pleasant stimuli
what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning?
Correct Answer: consequences/positive reinforcement
rate of response
Correct Answer: frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by?
Correct Answer: intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant
Correct Answer: -the nature of a reinforcer is that it
increases the behavior
-"ineffective" reinforcers don't exist because a reinforcer is
only a reinforcer if it increases a behavior
what do verbal communities influence?
Correct Answer: repertoire of the speaker
how do words develop meaning?
Correct Answer: by the listener's responses to the word
what is a referent
Correct Answer: -every term must have an entity to which
it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or
precentage?
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Question and Answer Latest
2026 Update!!!
what is the philosphoy of human behavior?
Correct Answer: Behaviorism
Ontogeny
Correct Answer: -learned beahviors of a particular animal
during its lifetime
Phylogeny
Correct Answer: behaviors that have been passed down
over the lifetime of the entire species
how do you know the behavior is phylogenic?
Correct Answer: when there is no history of the behavior
what did Miller et al. (2015) find?
Correct Answer: that mirrors do facilitate acquisition of
motor imitation in children with ASD-mirror serves as a
discriminative control for the model
where does our understanding of operant behavior
originate from?
Correct Answer: Darwin's controversial idea that humans
are not unique in their ability to think
What did Thorndike create?
Correct Answer: Law of effect
-trial and error type of explanation
1
, -organisms learn when behaviors are followed by pleasant
things and vice versa
Law of effect
Correct Answer: -Organisms learn through the
consequences of their actions
-Bx decrease when followed by negative stimuli
-Bx increase when followed by pleasant stimuli
what is the most powerful stimulus in human learning?
Correct Answer: consequences/positive reinforcement
rate of response
Correct Answer: frequency
strongest behaviors are maintained by?
Correct Answer: intermittent reinforcement
why is "effective" reinforcer redundant
Correct Answer: -the nature of a reinforcer is that it
increases the behavior
-"ineffective" reinforcers don't exist because a reinforcer is
only a reinforcer if it increases a behavior
what do verbal communities influence?
Correct Answer: repertoire of the speaker
how do words develop meaning?
Correct Answer: by the listener's responses to the word
what is a referent
Correct Answer: -every term must have an entity to which
it corresponds
-stimulus control over language
which is more sensitive to program changes? frequency or
precentage?
2