Stimulus Control Quiz In-Person

Stimulus control can be defined as:

• The extent to which stimuli which precede or accompany behaviour come to control the function of that behaviour

• The extent to which stimuli which precede or accompany behaviour come to control the rate or probability of that behaviour

• The extent to which stimuli which precede or accompany behaviour come to control the purpose of that behaviour

• The extent to which stimuli which precede or accompany behaviour come to control the appearance of that behaviour

When the context in which we have learned something changes, behaviour is likely to change

• True

• False

What three factors make up the three-term contingency?

• Antecedent, behaviour, environment

• Antecedent, environment, response 

• Antecedent, behaviour, consequence

• Antecedent, response, stimulus

A positive discriminative stimulus signals:

• Negative consequences for responding 

• Both positive and negative consequences for responding 

• Positive consequences for responding

• It does not signal anything 

If I am setting up a procedure to study stimulus control, in the first phase of this procedure I should:

• Reinforce responding to S+ and don’t reinforce responding to S-

• Reinforce responding to S- and don’t reinforce responding to S+

• Reinforce responding to both S+ and S-

• Don’t reinforce responding to either S+ or S- 

Which type of reinforcement schedule is best to use when reinforcing responding to S+

• Variable Time

• Variable interval

• Fixed Interval

• Fixed Time

Which type of reinforcement schedule is best to use during a generalisation test

• Variable Time

• Variable Interval

• Variable Ratio

• Extinction (no reinforcement) 

The colour of a keylight would be considered a___

• Functional stimulus

• Useful stimulus

• Physical stimulus

• Negative stimulus

Guttman and Kalish (1956) found that subjects generalised:

• More to colours that were different from the trained colour and less to colours that were similar to the trained colour

• An equal amount to all colours tested

• They didn’t generalise at all

• More to colours that were similar to the trained colour and less to colours that were different from the trained colour

Pavlov believed that generalisation gradients were:

• Learned from experience

• Innate hardwired properties of the nervous system

• Non-existent

• Innate in humans but not in non-human animals